When comedian Tig Notaro suffered a serious bacterial infection, a breakup, breast cancer, and her mother’s death all in the same year, she first decided to address it head-on in her comedy before going on to create One Mississippi, a fictionalized show based on that period in her life. Now, after tackling much Notaro’s difficult 2012 in its six-episode run, Amazon has released the trailer for One Mississippi‘s second season, finding its star heading back to her hometown for good.
Notaro stars in the comedy as Tig, a former comedian turned radio host who has just had her show in LA canceled and decides to move in with her stepdad (John Rothman) and brother (Noah Harpster) in their Biloxi, Mississippi, home. Back in the South, Tig tries to tries to relaunch her radio career, pairing with a local producer Kate (Notaro’s wife Stephanie Allynne) to make it happen. As an outspoken gay woman, Tig’s content is as controversial in Mississippi as her sexuality, and Kate works with her to push the boundaries of what listeners are open to hearing on the airwaves. At the same time, Tig begins to fall for “Straight Kate,” and the two grow increasingly close as Tig tries to figure out how to make a move.
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Notaro once described the show as being “85 percent” autobiographical, but as the comedian told Entertainment Weekly, season two culls material from the lives of everyone onboard. By the looks of the trailer, that touch should make an already great show even better.
“There are still nuggets of truth from my life that we have used, but there are also elements from the lives of the other writers woven in,” she told EW. “I’m not stuck telling the same story that maybe people have already seen in my documentary or read in my book… It makes it fun to see the ‘what if’ side of life.”
The second season of One Mississippi premieres on Amazon September 8.
