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HBO's It's Florida, Man Will Bring Florida Man Headlines to Life

The HBO series by the production team behind Eastbound & Down and The Righteous Gemstones premieres Friday, October 18.
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Anna Faris in HBO's It's Florida, Man Photo by Jennifer Clasen/HBO

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Promising to be a love letter to America's most misunderstood state, It's Florida, Man is a late-night comedy seemingly in the vein of Drunk History in that it will use a cavalcade of actors and comedians to bring the Florida Man news headlines everyone laughs at to life.

The comedy series will debut on HBO on Friday, October 18, and will be available to stream on Max. Its six-episode season will debut weekly.

Rough House Pictures, the company behind HBO's Eastbound & Down and The Righteous Gemstones, and Range Studios are the team behind the series. It's Florida, Man will feature interviews from everyday Floridians and a rotating cast of actors and comedians, including Anna Faris, Randall Park, Jake Johnson, Jon Gries, Sam Richardson, Ego Nwodim, Juliette Lewis, and Simon Rex.

It's actually surprising it took somebody this long to create a series based on the Florida Man meme. As New Times has previously explained, the virality of Sunshine State headlines is not a fluke. You've got the state's open-records laws (AKA the Government in the Sunshine Act) to thank for it. The laws, which were established as far back as 1909, make all government business public — including criminal records. That can't be said for every state, where journalists and the public are often stymied by bureaucratic red tape.

The HBO series definitely put those public records to use because it will cover a myriad of only-in-Florida headlines, including mermaids, witches, extreme fantasies, and feral bunnies.

Check out the series' trailer below.
It's Florida, Man premieres on HBO on Friday, October 18, at 11 p.m. ET.