The latest 2025 Emmy nominations shone somewhat mild on an underappreciated HBO Max present — Any person Someplace.
Produced by Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass and starring Bridget Everett and Jeff Hiller, this emotionally clever comedy acquired two Emmy nods. (Hiller was nominated for Excellent Supporting Actor in a Comedy Collection, and the collection finale episode “AGG” was nominated for Excellent Writing for a Comedy Collection.)
Discover out why Watch With Us loves this wonderful collection — and why it's best to watch it in July 2025.
It Places Character Actors in Lead Roles
Any person Someplace follows Sam Miller (Everett), a self-deprecating girl who strikes again to her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, to take care of her dying sister, Holly. The present picks up after Holly's demise, as Sam tries to determine what to do together with her life. She ceaselessly comes into battle together with her different sister, Tricia (Mary Catherine Garrison), in addition to her henpecked father, Ed (Mike Hagerty) and alcoholic mom, Mary Jo (Jane Drake Brody). However when Sam reconnects with previous highschool classmate Joel (Hiller), her world is opened up.
What's actually great about Any person Someplace is how vibrantly actual its characters really feel. There's not a “film star” in sight. You've most likely seen each Everett and Hiller in supporting roles for years, however this present places them within the highlight. Hollywood's typical restricted magnificence requirements imply solely the world's most stunning individuals often get to emote or play characters with arcs — however right here, each character's on a regular basis magnificence is honored and appreciated. Different standouts embrace drag king and comic Murray Hill as Fred Rococo, a professor on the native college, and Tim Bagley as Brad, Joel's eventual love curiosity.
‘Any person Someplace' Is a Candy Ode to Small-City Life
It's typically assumed that solely huge cities provide group for LGBTQIA+ individuals or those that don't match societal norms. Stereotypes sometimes paint small cities, particularly in rural America, as small-minded. And it's actually true that Joel, who's homosexual, encounters some homophobia in Manhattan, Kansas — however the present focuses much more on the gorgeous, supportive group Joel welcomes Sam into.
Joel hosts “Choir Apply” — a weekly gathering that welcomes individuals of all orientations and faiths to sing and join. Sam's determination to attend Choir Apply adjustments her entire trajectory — it redirects her from grief and isolation towards therapeutic and group.
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The present is tender in its portrayal of Kansas farmland, small shops and church buildings. “Getting out” of the small city is rarely the aim — it's merely to be snug and glad the place you're. The present honors small-town life and paints it as a peaceable, worthy expertise, serving as a welcome distinction to nearly all of narratives about nonconformity in rural areas.
‘Any person Someplace' Options One in all TV's Nice Friendships
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Though each characters finally pursue romantic relationships, the central bond of Any person Someplace is — certainly — between Sam and Joel. The 2 of them turn out to be one another's “individual,” providing help and difficult each other when it's wanted.
The love between them is what pulls Sam again to life when she's drowning in grief — and it's a reminder of the form of buddy all of us want. Any person Someplace treats romance as a “nice-to-have” and friendship as important. It's a welcome perspective shift that we may all stand to recollect.
Watch Any person Someplace on HBO Max.
