The Comfortable’s Place forged is dreaming big with regards to season 2 guest stars — starting with Kevin Costner.
During an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Reba McEntire, Belissa Escobedo, Melissa Peterman, Pablo Castelblanco, Rex Linn and Tokala Black Elk teased what to anticipate from the brand new season including the scenarios they’re pitching to the writers.
“We have now a dream of seeing flashbacks to Comfortable,” Castelblanco said about Bobbie (McEntire) and Isabella’s (Escobedo) late father. “Belissa really wants Kevin Costner.”
Peterman, 54, cosigned the thought of Costner joining the NBC sitcom. “I also would love a flashback scene, specifically a flashback of the day showing each and everybody’s job interview,” she teased. “That may very well be really fun. Will we ever really need to see Comfortable? I might like to.”
Comfortable’s Place, which premiered in October 22024, follows Bobbie as she inherits her father’s restaurant and discovers a brand new business partner within the long-lost half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) she didn’t know she had. The remaining of Comfortable’s Place is made up of bartender Gabby (Peterman), cook Emmett (Linn), accountant Steve (Castelblanco) and waiter Takoda (Black Elk).
Two seasons in, Comfortable’s Place has been capable of stage some memorable Reba reunions for McEntire and Peterman including Steve Howey, Christopher Wealthy and JoAnna Garcia Swisher. However the forged is hoping to get much more familiar faces in the longer term.
“My dear friend John Lithgow would like to do it. He’s now doing the Harry Potter show on HBO so he’s in London for an additional 12 months. I’m also attempting to get my good friend Jean Smart to return over,” Linn, 68, told Us. “She’s on the studio lot excellent across the best way here. I’d like to see those two but I even have about 30 friends that want to return on the show. We’re attempting to get a few of them.”
Linn and Black Elk, 41, also threw in Peyton Manning as a suggestion while Castelblanco pitched Sofia Vergara and John Leguizamo as Steve’s parents. McEntire, 70, and Escobedo, 27, meanwhile, are only excited for viewers to see how much Comfortable’s Place has evolved.
“It’s an amazing place to be. We all know our audience, we all know one another higher and we’ve gelled. We didn’t have that big of a break between the primary season ending and second season starting so we just fell right back into it,” McEntire teased. “We’re bonding rather a lot more. All six of us are very confident and really comfortable with one another — to some extent that after we do have a guest forged, we feel very comfortable sharing the stage.”
Escobedo said the connection might be felt on the show.
“As we get more comfortable and more bonded, we see it within the characters as well,” she added. “Because we’re getting comfortable with our own characters and so each personality gets somewhat deeper. You get more into that person.”
She continued: “That’s what I’m so excited for everybody to see is how much the connection between everyone has progressed into much more of an ensemble. It’s just so funny.”
McEntire teased to Us that the stories in season 2 are even larger and higher, adding, “We’ve progressed and we’ve grown together. We’re a good knit family — although [Belissa and I] ARE the one ones which are blood related on the show. However it appears like we’re kids which were adopted into one big family called Comfortable’s Place.”
Comfortable’s Place returns to NBC on Friday, November 7, at 8 p.m. ET before streaming the following day on Peacock.