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Positive:
48
Mixed:
18
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews
Nov 6, 2014
Season 2 Review:
Ultimately, there’s enough meat here to engender morbid curiosity on where Valerie’s latest journey back into the maw of the beast will lead. Other than a rarefied slice of media mavens and those few aforementioned devotees, though, to borrow Valerie’s early catchphrase in assessing this latest Comeback, I’m not sure you need to see that.
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Mar 16, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Clever, if familiar. [2 June 2005, p.8]
Nov 7, 2014
Season 2 Review:
While the first few episodes of the new Comeback make stingingly accurate points about the sexism and ageism Valerie has to contend with, The Comeback has its own problems. As in the first go-round, Valerie comes off as cartoonish, a caricature of a so-so celebrity.
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Mar 15, 2014
Season 1 Review:
The comedy equivalent of low-hanging fruit. [3 June 2005, p.E1]
Mar 14, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Good for Kudrow for taking on something so different. You can't accuse her of trading on her Friends familiarity. You can, however, wish that The Comeback, for all the merits of its premise, was more enjoyable to watch. [3 June 2005, p.10]
Mar 14, 2014
Season 1 Review:
Kudrow says she isn't a reality-TV fan and the humiliation of its participants, yet she plays her part as victim. So when she gets sucker-punched, we get sucker-punched. What's so funny about that? [4 June 2005, p.10]
Mar 16, 2014
Season 1 Review:
It's one thing to laugh at characters on TV shows who behave foolishly, who deserve to be mocked. Valerie's crimes for the sake of comedy are nothing more than aging with an undiminished Hollywood ego. It's a little funny at first, but it quickly turns sad, something you want to look away from, not laugh about. [2 June 2005, p.WE-37]
Mar 16, 2014
Season 1 Review:
A reality/sitcom hybrid. How revolutionary. [3 June 2005, p.E1]
Mar 13, 2014
Season 1 Review:
1) It's not all that funny, which could be a problem considering it's supposed to be a comedy, and 2) It continues a rather arrogant presumption on the part of show-biz types that we're all ceaselessly interested in the inner workings of their industry. [4 June 2005, p.C01]
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