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I've been watching this again and reminding myself of its sheer amazingness. There's so much going I've noticed things I missed on previously viewings.
Valerie's Palm Springs phone call to Fatty Paulie G and Valerie's phone call with Tom Selleck remain acting masterclasses.
And something I've never picked up on before: there's Sharla, a manipulative and attention seeking person willing to shaft Valerie for her own personal gain , and there's the vain and vacuous friend of a Valerie's daughter, desperate to become better aquainted with the characters of Room & Bored who goes by the name of Kala.
Valerie's Palm Springs phone call to Fatty Paulie G and Valerie's phone call with Tom Selleck remain acting masterclasses.
And something I've never picked up on before: there's Sharla, a manipulative and attention seeking person willing to shaft Valerie for her own personal gain , and there's the vain and vacuous friend of a Valerie's daughter, desperate to become better aquainted with the characters of Room & Bored who goes by the name of Kala.
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It does look like it's happening, but it's not official yet. 
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I think my favourite exchange with Mickey (the best ones are always with Mickey) was in Valerie Gets A Magazine Cover.
Valerie: Juna's got the right idea though. Gotta get a publicist. Just gotta. You know who was great? Ryan.
Mickey: Who's Ryan?
Valerie: Ryan, you know? That adorable publicist from It? Ryan?
Mickey: Lou?
Valerie: Yeah! Right! I know his name is Lou but I called him Ryan. Because he looked like Ryan O'Neal. Well it was our thing. Well it was my thing with him. Anyway he got me. He really got me. I think it was because he was gay. Got the nuances more. You know? Yeah, gotta get me a gay Mickey, gotta get a gay. Why don't I just call Lou?
Mickey: Oh Red, he died, back in 94, I think.
Valerie: Oh no. Did he have...
Mickey: NO! Hit by a car crossing Barham
Valerie: Oh! Good! Well, not good that he died, just...
[Cut to scene of Valerie in restaurant with potential new publicist while Mickey sits at an adjacent table, completely distracted by 2 muscle marys brunching in tight vests)
Valerie: Juna's got the right idea though. Gotta get a publicist. Just gotta. You know who was great? Ryan.
Mickey: Who's Ryan?
Valerie: Ryan, you know? That adorable publicist from It? Ryan?
Mickey: Lou?
Valerie: Yeah! Right! I know his name is Lou but I called him Ryan. Because he looked like Ryan O'Neal. Well it was our thing. Well it was my thing with him. Anyway he got me. He really got me. I think it was because he was gay. Got the nuances more. You know? Yeah, gotta get me a gay Mickey, gotta get a gay. Why don't I just call Lou?
Mickey: Oh Red, he died, back in 94, I think.
Valerie: Oh no. Did he have...
Mickey: NO! Hit by a car crossing Barham
Valerie: Oh! Good! Well, not good that he died, just...
[Cut to scene of Valerie in restaurant with potential new publicist while Mickey sits at an adjacent table, completely distracted by 2 muscle marys brunching in tight vests)
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Now officially confirmed.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TheComeback&src=hash">#TheComeback</a>, from <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaKudrow">@LisaKudrow</a> and Michael Patrick King, will return for a new season this fall. <a href="http://t.co/YwvtI57zSy">pic.twitter.com/YwvtI57zSy</a></p>— HBO (@HBO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HBO/statuses/463416847283417088">May 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TheComeback&src=hash">#TheComeback</a>, from <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaKudrow">@LisaKudrow</a> and Michael Patrick King, will return for a new season this fall. <a href="http://t.co/YwvtI57zSy">pic.twitter.com/YwvtI57zSy</a></p>— HBO (@HBO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HBO/statuses/463416847283417088">May 5, 2014</a></blockquote>
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I finally watched this last week and it was good but it just made me too uncomfortable. It reminded me a lot of season 1 of Parks and Rec Leslie, I need the characters to be less pathetic in order to enjoy them which they kinda worked out in the last few episodes.
The Palm Springs episode was the best and I find her husband to be really hot. The kids really didn't work for me, the show was at its best without them.
The Palm Springs episode was the best and I find her husband to be really hot. The kids really didn't work for me, the show was at its best without them.
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Details on the new season:
HBO’s The Comeback is coming back, and we’ve got details that we need to know are being heard, Jane. What will our favorite former sitcom star Valerie Cherish be up when the series returns after nine years off the air?
“Valerie does get in the spotlight, which is what she always reached for, but we found a unique way of telling the story about what can happen when you get something you want,” says co-creator Michael Patrick King. Earlier this year, HBO invited him and Comeback co-creator/star Lisa Kudrow to revive their canceled reality satire, which followed a faded D-lister desperate for attention. King and Kudrow contemplated the offer — to do either a one-shot movie or a limited series — and opted to stick with the original show’s DNA, bringing Valerie back for a six-episode second season set to air this October.
The first thing to know is this: Valerie has been redeemed. In an age of embarrassment television and Real Housewives self-humiliation, the literal meat grinder Valerie put herself through in 2005 has become the norm on TV – for better or worse, says King. “Valerie addresses that in the very first episode. And the funny spin on that is, ‘Turns out I was right.’”
The new season, set in 2014, finds Valerie doing what she can to stay current — meaning she’s got a blog and a Twitter, and is just as obsessed with Bravo as everyone else. And that’s not all that’s changed for her since 2005. “Nine years in every person’s life changes or deepens or sharpens them, so to see Valerie nine years later, she would have had some shift in her,” says King. “The odd thing is, we’re even in Valerie’s house — the exact location was available — so it’s almost as if everything fell right back in place. But I fully believe the nine years has added something.”
King won’t reveal Valerie’s greater arc this season — “It’s something that will test her” — but it’s decidedly different from her first season storyline, which primarily focused on Valerie snagging a supporting role as Aunt Sassy on the hot teen-aimed comedy Room and Bored. Still, you can expect to see familiar faces like Malin Akerman (Trophy Wife) and Kellan Lutz (Twilight), who will reprise their roles as then-newbie actors Juna and Chris. In a meta wink to real-world events, Akerman and Lutz’s characters will mirror the careers of their real-life counterparts.
“What we’re doing with Malin and Kellan is following their actual trajectories. When we did The Comeback, they were brand new unknowns, two puppies. And since that time, they’ve both become movie stars,” teases King. “It’s fun to do a meta reflection every now and then: Kellan Lutz as Kellan Lutz as Chris as action hero. Also, the idea that Valerie still has a relationship with Juna is so lovely to us, because we always thought that was a genuine friendship.”
In fact, King and the writers hope to have a fully fleshed-out journey for every major character. “Everybody who was part of Valerie’s life, for better or worse, is back in a way that hopefully will be believable…and odd, the way Hollywood is.”
King also emphasized that though Valerie’s found some semblance of success, she’ll still experience those same cringe-inducing misfortunes that made the original Comeback such a dour delight. “I’m cagey enough to know that Valerie has to win, and lose, and win, and win, and lose,” he says. “There’s an evolution here, so that it will be a vibrant ride and there will be many losses. But I do love her so much; I wouldn’t trot her out again just to make people sad.”
“I know Valerie is as good as ever,” declares King. “I see it every day.”
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/06/12/the-comeback-season-two-first-look/
“Valerie does get in the spotlight, which is what she always reached for, but we found a unique way of telling the story about what can happen when you get something you want,” says co-creator Michael Patrick King. Earlier this year, HBO invited him and Comeback co-creator/star Lisa Kudrow to revive their canceled reality satire, which followed a faded D-lister desperate for attention. King and Kudrow contemplated the offer — to do either a one-shot movie or a limited series — and opted to stick with the original show’s DNA, bringing Valerie back for a six-episode second season set to air this October.
The first thing to know is this: Valerie has been redeemed. In an age of embarrassment television and Real Housewives self-humiliation, the literal meat grinder Valerie put herself through in 2005 has become the norm on TV – for better or worse, says King. “Valerie addresses that in the very first episode. And the funny spin on that is, ‘Turns out I was right.’”
The new season, set in 2014, finds Valerie doing what she can to stay current — meaning she’s got a blog and a Twitter, and is just as obsessed with Bravo as everyone else. And that’s not all that’s changed for her since 2005. “Nine years in every person’s life changes or deepens or sharpens them, so to see Valerie nine years later, she would have had some shift in her,” says King. “The odd thing is, we’re even in Valerie’s house — the exact location was available — so it’s almost as if everything fell right back in place. But I fully believe the nine years has added something.”
King won’t reveal Valerie’s greater arc this season — “It’s something that will test her” — but it’s decidedly different from her first season storyline, which primarily focused on Valerie snagging a supporting role as Aunt Sassy on the hot teen-aimed comedy Room and Bored. Still, you can expect to see familiar faces like Malin Akerman (Trophy Wife) and Kellan Lutz (Twilight), who will reprise their roles as then-newbie actors Juna and Chris. In a meta wink to real-world events, Akerman and Lutz’s characters will mirror the careers of their real-life counterparts.
“What we’re doing with Malin and Kellan is following their actual trajectories. When we did The Comeback, they were brand new unknowns, two puppies. And since that time, they’ve both become movie stars,” teases King. “It’s fun to do a meta reflection every now and then: Kellan Lutz as Kellan Lutz as Chris as action hero. Also, the idea that Valerie still has a relationship with Juna is so lovely to us, because we always thought that was a genuine friendship.”
In fact, King and the writers hope to have a fully fleshed-out journey for every major character. “Everybody who was part of Valerie’s life, for better or worse, is back in a way that hopefully will be believable…and odd, the way Hollywood is.”
King also emphasized that though Valerie’s found some semblance of success, she’ll still experience those same cringe-inducing misfortunes that made the original Comeback such a dour delight. “I’m cagey enough to know that Valerie has to win, and lose, and win, and win, and lose,” he says. “There’s an evolution here, so that it will be a vibrant ride and there will be many losses. But I do love her so much; I wouldn’t trot her out again just to make people sad.”
“I know Valerie is as good as ever,” declares King. “I see it every day.”
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/06/12/the-comeback-season-two-first-look/
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That sounds VERY PROMISING.
Let's hope it's not a big fat disappointment like the revived Arrested Development was. (We've all made peace with that now, right?)
Let's hope it's not a big fat disappointment like the revived Arrested Development was. (We've all made peace with that now, right?)
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It's too bad this isn't on Netflix. Ideally I would watch this in one go, but with only 6 episodes I can imagine repeated viewings will demand it that way.
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Not felt like this since Superbowl Madge or the Spice Girls at the Olympics.
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I hope it gets a good time slot (not that I have a clue, but wikipedia-reading on 90s sitcoms usually brings up this topic). Oh, and that all former Friends co-stars are nowhere in sight.