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Lisa Kudrow Returns as the Fearless Actress in ‘The Comeback’
The Comeback Season 3 satirizes TV industry changes with Valerie Cherish reviving her career via an AI-written sitcom, earning a 3.5-star review.
- On Sunday, March 22, the third and final season of The Comeback premiered on HBO, with Lisa Kudrow reprising her role as Valerie Cherish navigating Hollywood amid social media and artificial intelligence.
- Premiering in 2005 just one year after Friends ended, the series initially addressed reality television. Twenty years later, the show returns to explore industry changes, including the impact of machines on creative work.
- This season's plot is timely, as AI reaches Tinseltown and introduces "ethically murky questions" about the industry's future. The series acknowledges that computer-produced content might be "good enough," yet remains contested.
- Tim Bagley, actor, reunites with Kudrow, his longtime friend from The Groundlings comedy school. Bagley praised her commitment to character, noting she approaches roles from a "very cerebral place."
- As a final season, the series acts as a manifesto for human creation, with creator Michael Patrick King suggesting the comedy stems from fear of machines in a changing industry.
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Tim Bagley Recalls Favorite Memory of Lisa Kudrow During Early Hollywood Days — Hint: It Involves Wigs and Mice
Bagley and Kudrow both star in ‘The Comeback’ season 3, which premiered on March 22Tim Bagley; Lisa Kudrow at the ‘The Comeback’ season 3 premiere on March 19, 2026Credit: Brianna Bryson/WireImage; Julian Hamilton/FilmMagicNEED TO KNOWTim Bagley reflected on his decades-long friendship with Lisa Kudrow, which began at The Groundlings improvisation and sketch comedy school, in an exclusive interview with PEOPLEBagley praised Kudrow's intelligence…
Will ‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Predict the Future of TV With AI? Odds Are, Yes
The new season of Lisa Kudrow's Hollywood satire, like the two before it, lays out a too-close-for-comfort depiction of what lies ahead for the entertainment industry — mercifully delivered with plenty of laughs
Lisa Kudrow’s ‘The Comeback’ Is as Hilarious as Ever: TV Review
Three and a half out of four stars. In an age of revivals and reboots, it can be risky to bring back a character as beloved as The Comeback’s Valerie Cherish (a perfect Lisa Kudrow). Valerie is a well-meaning but slightly clueless actress of a certain age who can’t get out of her own way enough to resuscitate her career. Audiences met her in Kudrow’s first post-Friends project for one brilliant but little-watched season back in 2005. The comedy …
The Comeback Season 3 Just Quietly Turned Valerie Cherish Into The Villain
The Comebackseason 3 brought Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) back into the spotlight in a whole new way, and the decision to quietly turn her into the villain of her own story should prove to be poignant. Throughout the first two seasons of The Comeback, viewers see several sides of Valerie, but in its third, a whole new world is opened up to Valerie.
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