Bridget Everett

BRIDGET EVERETT NEVER THOUGHT SHE'D BE THE LEAD OF A TV SHOW. "I come from the downtown world in New York, a cabaret singer, and these things just don't happen, you don't find yourself with three seasons of HBO.

- H. Alan Scott

It just doesn't happen." But it happened. On Somebody Somewhere (October 27), Everett plays Sam, a woman struggling through a midlife crisis with the help of her family and colorful friends in rural Kansas. Set in her actual hometown, Everett says, "it's a lot of me that you're seeing, warts and all." "Even if you don't look like the people on the screen, you can relate to the things that they're going through.... Whether we're fat or we're short, or we're queer or whatever-we happen to all be those things-but that's not the focus. The focus of the story is just the human condition." And in season three we see just how far Sam has gone in her funny (sometimes uncomfortable) journey to find