Anybody Watched The Comeback?

[JSngry]

Just saw the Season Two finale...missed season One, wasn't into it then, whatever etc, but saw the first episode of Season Two, was hmmmm-ed out the ass, so went back and caught up/got sucked in and turned on, and now...whoa.

Don't call it "comedy". It's some of the driest, darkest, and sharpest/biting-est satire (or perhaps, simply, commentary, or perhaps just mirror-holding-up-to), there is no moment that is too awkward to derail this trainwreck, train keeping running off the tracks full speed ahead seems to be the point, perhaps because the tracks...tracks gonna be tracks, uh, right?

Final "comeback" is proof that if you ever leave home, you can never come back unless you never forget where it is, in which case, maybe the tracks don't go there, that explains a lot of things about staying on them and/or not. Or something like that, I don't know.

All the time during Friends, all the blab was like, yeah, Lisa Kudrow's really pretty smart, really! And i was like, who cares, she's smart, a lot of people are smart, bfd, but no, Lisa Kudrow is indeed very smart. Layers of smart in this show.

Smart. Layers of it.

[JSngry]

Nobody's been watching this?

[catesta]

Honestly, I've passed on it for no other reason than I assumed it would just annoy me.

I'll give it a try based on your recommendation though.

[JSngry]

Well, just keep in mind three things, fwiw -

• it's dark and dry as shit, not very many LOLgutbusters moments. Very little, if any, broad humor here.
• there's a really strong feminist subtext going on at almost all times, not "militant" or "anti-male" or anything, just a mirror held up to what women have to deal with every day from "men", and how clueless the men are that they're doing it, almost as clueless as the women are aware of it. Valerie Cherish is a lot less clueless than people think she is. It's how she handles it that lets people - including herself, really - think she's not aware of it. She may be a lot of things, but clueless she is not. This is not immediately apparent, btw, but the deeper into the seasons you get, the more obvious it becomes.
• for either season, the final/ultimate payoff doesn't come until the final episode. For the first season, that payoff is damn near shattering, for the second it's damn near touching.

Enjoy, hopefully!

[Jazzmoose]

Never heard of it, but it's on Amazon Prime, so I gave it a shot and watched about fifteen minutes of the first episode. No, I wouldn't call it a comedy. Maybe it's because I don't watch TV anymore and have missed the whole "reality TV" thing, but that was the most uncomfortable ten minutes I've ever spent in front of a screen. The bit with the housekeeper was mildly amusing, but most of it was just...uncomfortable.

[JSngry]

Oh, it's an uncomfortable show all right. That first fifteen minutes was just establishing a few premises, that's all.