Among HBO’s many cult comedy hits, The Comeback — about a goofy, out-of-touch former sitcom star named Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow, who also co-created the show with Michael Patrick King) — is one of the cultiest: cancelled after its first season in 2005, but brought back for a second in 2014, all supported by a vocal fandom of tastemakers keeping its flame alive on social media. Through Valerie’s many humiliations and occasional successes, she’s been buoyed by the members of her inner circle, including publicist Billy Stanton, played by her producing partner Dan Bucatinsky (also an executive producer on The Comeback).
In the show’s hotly anticipated third season, premiering on HBO this evening, Valerie has a tougher assignment than being the one veteran star among newcomers on disposable sex-com Room & Bored (as in Season 1) or playing a sometimes literal monster on a dark dramedy about the MAKING of
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