Terry Gross

More recently, he played a serial killer who targets gay men in American Horror Story.

His memoir is called Actress of a Certain Age, My 20-Year Trail to Overnight Success.

Somebody Somewhere concluded its third and final season at the end of 2024.

Hiller won an Emmy in 2025 for his performance in the show.

The story is built around the characters of Sam, played by Bridget Everett, and Joel, Jeff Hiller's character.

When the series begins, Sam had returned from New York to Manhattan, Kansas, where she grew up, to help care for her sister who was dying of cancer.

After the sister's death, Sam stays in Kansas where her other sister still lives.

Sam has no friends there and has an argumentative relationship with her sister.

Sam feels so lost and rejected that she takes offense easily and doesn't realize that in order to avoid rejection, she's pushing people away.

But she becomes very close to Joel.

He introduces her to his found family of LGBTQ people and artists who secretly have a nighttime cabaret at the church.

where Joel is the pianist and has a key.

He gets her to sing again.

She's a great singer who doesn't think she's any good.

In the second episode, when they're becoming friends, she visits his home and sees a large, elaborate collage standing up against the wall in the living room.

She asks if it's his dream board, and he corrects her.

It's his vision board.

Bridget Everett's character Sam speaks first.

Jeff Hiller, welcome to Fresh Air.

I love the series, and you are so great in it.