HUFF is a new Showtime series that premieres at 10pm et/pt on Sunday, Nov. 7. Huff will then air every Sunday at 10 pm et/pt on Showtime.
Synopsis:
HUFF, Showtime's newest 13-episode dramatic series, is the story of Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt, portrayed by multiple Emmy® Award-winner Hank Azaria, a family man and a successful psychiatrist who gets a wake-up call after a tragedy occurs with one of his patients. His whole existence – as a doctor, husband, father, son and brother – will go through a reawakening, and life will never be quite the same again for anyone. The series co-stars Paget Brewster, Anton Yelchin, with Blythe Danner and Oliver Platt.
Azaria is "Huff," a psychiatrist, whose life and career conspire to blur the lines of reality, often causing his so-called normal world and family life to be as surreal as that of his patients. He deals with the functionally insane all day, and when he comes home, he's faced with the daily insanities of family life.
When one of Huff's patients, a 15-year-old boy, commits suicide in his office, Huff's life is sent reeling. He struggles with having to face legal liability in connection with the boy's death and is tortured by feelings of guilt and inadequacy. Even at home, Huff's nurturing nature is tested at nearly every turn as he endures and deals with the conflicting personalities within his own family, the most severe of which is his brother Teddy (ANDY COMEAU), a diagnosed schizophrenic living in a locked facility. At mid-life, Huff now begins to question who he is, what he's made of and how he fits in – anywhere.
"HUFF came to life from wanting to write a script about waking up," says series creator and executive producer Bob Lowry. "Most people don't wake up until they learn they're going to die. The suicide is Huff's wake up call. But like all the rest of us, he falls back asleep a hundred or a thousand times a day."
