Bridget Everett.
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At the two emotional extremes of the season-one finale of HBO’s Somebody Somewhere are two performances by Bridget Everett’s Sam. In one, she stands up in a party bus with her new group of friends and sings about her plans to “wrap this pussy around every dick I can.” In the other, a few scenes earlier, she sings a ballad at a keyboard in her family’s barn, telling those friends how “you brought me home.” As different as they are, both moments mark steps toward emotional openness for Sam. The character had moved back to her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas (where Everett herself grew up before becoming a fixture in the New York cabaret scene) to care for her…
