Tragedies and personal embarrassment are giving way to the next great television frontier.
agrees that there’s “comedy in trauma” and brings that balance of dark and light to the series about a woman who dreams of becoming a Home Shopping Network host. Like Bayer, the character had cancer in her youth and suffers from a bit of arrested development, still trying to figure out how to be a grown-up and have an adult relationship.
The half-hour Showtime comedy, which Bayer cocreated with Jeremy Beiler, sees her character, Joanna, at first attempting to hide her past with cancer from her new coworkers but then using it in order to keep her new dream job. Bayer says the inspiration came from her own experience of going to college and not being known for her cancer anymore. “It was interesting for me to not be treated with the same kid gloves that I had been treated with in high school.
but never wanted to do anything to hurt her family. Created by Hannah Bos and Paul Thureen, the HBO show has its roots in Everett’s life, set in her hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, and follows an aspiring singer who has left “the big city” after her sister’s death from cancer. “I’m number one on the call sheet and an executive producer, so it’s my job to give as much of myself as I can,” says Everett. “You don’t really think about like, Oh, a million people are going to see this.
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