Ex-sitcom star stars as an ex-sitcom star making her comeback in a new sitcom, inside a reality show called The Comeback. Capiche?
If you were to ask me what my favourite genre of television is, firstly I’d say: thank you for taking an interest in my interests! Most people just talk about themselves. And then I’d say: it is, of course, the genre of “complicated female lead in a show that was axed too soon but then developed a cult following online”. Notable examples include Freaks and Geeks, Enlightened and the pinnacle, my favourite, drumroll … The Comeback.
Co-created in 2005 by a fresh-from-Friends Lisa Kudrow and a fresh-from-Sex and the City Michael Patrick King, it’s brutal TV satire and a cringeworthy character study par excellence. Kudrow, herself a former star of a network sitcom, stars as Valerie Cherish, former star of a (fictional) network sitcom, I’m It!.
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