Just ask Daisy Haggard (“Episodes”) to describe her six-episode comedy series “Back to Life,” which debuts Sunday on Showtime. She stars as Miri Matteson, a woman who is released after 18 years in prison and returns to her seaside hometown in southeast England.
“We wanted to make it as hard for her as humanly possible,” said Haggard, who co-created and co-wrote the series with Laura Solon. “And by putting a woman in her late 30s back in her hometown where she did the worst thing that’s ever happened in that town and she’s got no job, no friends, and a whole town that hates her, we thought it presented the most amount of challenges.