"Lisa and I would meet every couple of weeks for lunch - quote, unquote - and then we'd get around to, 'What do you think Valerie would be doing right now?' King said at SXSW, where the first two episodes of the third and final season of what they're now calling 'a trilogy' screened to a rapt audience of The Comeback die-hards."
"Season one had seen Valerie, the desperate, cluelessly self-absorbed former star of a B-list sitcom called I'm It!, flailing as she tries to reignite her career as the cougar character amid a young cast on an even more terrible sitcom, Room & Board, while also documenting her comeback for a reality series."
"Kudrow lamented that it was too bad Valerie hadn't been around for the SAG and writers' strikes, because she would have been so funny in that mess. King came up with the idea of starting in the past with the strike and then moving forward to the present - three years later - which is when everyone predicted the unions would have to negotiate again because of AI."
The Comeback, HBO's dark Hollywood satire starring Lisa Kudrow as struggling actress Valerie Cherish, returns for a third season after a 12-year hiatus. Series co-creator Michael Patrick King and Kudrow developed the new season through regular lunches where they discussed what Valerie would be doing currently. The new season begins during the SAG and writers' strikes, then moves forward three years to the present day when AI negotiations are predicted to occur. Previous seasons followed Valerie's desperate attempts to revive her career, including playing a cougar on a sitcom and winning an Emmy for a fictionalized version of herself on an HBO dramedy. The third season is being framed as the final installment of a trilogy.
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