HBO The Comeback
Created by Lisa Kudrow, Michael Patrick King · 2005–present ·
The Comeback (2005–present) earns a 83% Celluloid Score — Recommended. Recommended overall. Created by Lisa Kudrow, Michael Patrick King; streaming on HBO Max.
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Is The Comeback worth watching?
Yes — The Comeback earns a 83% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Lisa Kudrow, Michael Patrick King and streaming on HBO Max.
Critics Consensus
Two decades in, still the sharpest satire of fame's machinery — Kudrow's Valerie Cherish meets the AI era with a season that plays like a victory lap and a eulogy at once.
Celluloid Critics Consensus
What is The Comeback about?
Once a decade, the cameras find Valerie Cherish again. Lisa Kudrow's monumentally self-unaware sitcom star has chased relevance through a humiliating reality show, a prestige-cable roman à clef and now an AI-written multi-cam that may not need her at all — each mockumentary season a time capsule of exactly how Hollywood diminishes its women, and of exactly how hard Valerie works not to notice.
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