StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

maxime-chesneau This show is perfection !! I'm actually kind of...furious cause it seems like people are only realizing it now that they're finally releasing a second season ( 9 years later !!! ).When it first aired, there was neither Kardashian Family showing off their uselessness or Tori Spelling divorcing on cam and YET Lisa Kudrown and Michael Patrick King saw that coming !! It's like a trip in the mind of some desperate actress we see on magazine covers week after week only to talk about her diet or boyfriend of dog.November couldn't come faster !! Can't wait any longer.

theparkmans The only thing wrong with The Comeback is that it came out a few years ahead of its time.Lisa Kudrow is pure genius. She finds a way to turn the contemptible into the endearing and feel for a character despite how deeply she's flawed.The show came out in 2005 just before the reality television industry truly spun out of control and those in the industry were probably less than amused by HBO's dead on parody of their pathetic, narcissistic excuses for entertainment.The Comeback is so good that it hurts.GOD I wish this show had gotten more than one season! If HBO had had the balls to stay behind it, it would go down in history with Larry Sanders as one of the greatest shows ever made about the entertainment industry.

gus120970 Clearly stylistically inspired by Ricky Gervais' 'The Office', 'The Comeback' mitigates its blatant lifting of the fake reality show medium through some extremely ironic dialogue and situations satirising L.A showbiz and American entertainment culture, and the sterling performance of Lisa Kudrow as Valerie Cherish. Ms Cherish needs the oxygen of publicity much like a candle needs air, but the paradox of the show is the more she aims to expose herself, the less she wants to reveal. Her fixed smile, banal observations and bemused embarrassment at the painfully real people around her do not hide the inner conflict faced by a minor TV celebrity straddling the cusp of cult recognition and total obscurity. Faithfully attended by her aged bouffant hairdresser, devotee of Dorothy. Kudrow has Cherish, behind her fixed grin, flopping between despair, grim determination and delusional hope that her star is once more in the ascendent, that her co-stars and colleagues find her relevant and that she's still with it. Each episode is cleverly themed, with some hilarious setpieces interspersed by mildly amusing encounters that cover essential aspects of Californian life from sunlounger etiquette to the eye-watering costs associated with installing a meditation room with antique buddhas, and just how easy it is to go out with a designer dress worn the wrong way round. The show was not recommissioned, perhaps because its natural audience was put off, undeservedly, by the name of the star, whilst the humour and presentation would not appeal to the 'Friends' constituency. The 13 episodes are destined to be lauded as a comedy gem in years hence.

Teenagemillionaire Surprisingly I liked this series. The first time I heard about this was through Entertertainment Tonight, and thought it was some new lame sitcom with Lisa Kudrow. When I saw it I thought it was great and was a new kind of television show that was much needed. It was a fake reality show, which is the best kind because you can manipulate what your character is going to do. I was really impressed with Kudrow, this is about as far from Pheobe as you can get and it works. Lisa Kudrow was always the more talented of the friends and here it really shows. She portrays this sad, depressing character so wrapped up in the LA lifestyle and popularity contest that Hollywood is, and satirises this so perfectly. A show like this is so welcome right now, what with Newlywed and Ashlee Simpson show - to name a few making stars of bimbos and egotistical nobodies, this takes this on and adds an embarrassing cringe worthy twist on it all. When i was watching it, it was hard to believe that this is mostly scripted and that what we are seeing is a bunch of actors, the show really feels like it is a reality show, and you do feel for the actors especially Valerie (kudrow). I would definitely recommend this if you are sick of Jessica/Ashlee Simpson, Hogan knows best and all those other reality, publicity stunt shows. A work of genius.