‘Rooster’ Stars Steve Carell and Charly Clive Unpack That Fiery Premiere: ‘A Lot of Things to Come Back From’

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Rooster” Season 1, Episode 1.

Bill Lawrence’s new HBO comedy “Rooster” introduces viewers to the loving yet dysfunctional father-daughter relationship between Steve Carell’s Greg and Charly Clive’s Katie, which luckily, is not what goes up in flames at the end of the premiere episode.

The series opener sees Greg, the author of the “Rooster” series, head to the campus of a Northeast college as a guest speaker, not so much to progress his own career...