“Joel brings Sam back to music, which is the great love of her life,” Everett said. Having been mesmerized by her as their high school’s star singer, Joel pulls Sam up on stage to sing during the service, a cathartic moment that closes out the pilot and opens up her world. In the first episode, Joel, a gay man striving to find his place in the small-town ideals of faith and family, invites Sam to join his off-the-books church service, where those who don’t fit the general religion or societal mold can commune through music.
They spark each other in good and bad ways.”Įverett and Hiller saw their characters’ blossoming friendship as a give and take between two people who don’t yet know how much they can offer the other. But now Joel, this new person in her life, is opening her up again and we like what they do for each other. “Even on the grief side of this story, the last person Sam opened up to was her sister. “This show, at the heart of it, is about Sam and Joel and their tight friendship and the adventures they go on and the trouble they get in,” Bos said.
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When the series opens, Sam finds herself in a new friendship with her aspirational coworker Joel (Jeff Hiller), a former high school classmate who once idolized her and is now her gateway to living again. Even though they know the person we used to be or maybe still are, a hometown is that place where it’s just as safe to laugh as it is to cry. It might not sound like this comedic drama, co-produced by Jay and Mark Duplass, has much to laugh about, but that’s the other reality about hometowns. Around every corner, Sam is confronted with reminders of the sister she recently lost, the dream of a singing career she long ago abandoned, and the alcoholism her mother is choosing to ignore.
One fact of life is that hometowns never go easy on us, whether you’re still there or just visiting. “She’s unmoored and has lost her connection to people.”
“Sam is sort of drifting through life, she has let it all slip by and then suddenly wakes up and says, ‘where did life go?’” Everett said. “Our idea was, what if that person didn’t do that? Where do you find your community, your chosen family in your hometown, wherever that may be.” “There’s so many stories about the person from the small town who goes to the big city,” said Paul Thureen, who created the show with Hannah Bos.
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