What makes it different from others?

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This show could be one of the most significantly honest views you will ever see. In 5 or 10 years this series will come into view as a masterpiece of depicting reality in its time. There is an grim honesty portrayed in the episodes, so contrary to the crap on television now, and this show blatantly and repeatedly slaps them in the face. For those of you who have passed off The Comeback as 'funny' or 'just OK' your missing something. If you are open to the complexity of this show then watch it. I know it sounds overly dramatic or fanatical but the context of this show is intense. Watch it. Really WATCH it. Art that comes from truth is rare, and its ever more rare for it to translate, and boy does The Comeback ever.

I think "The Comeback" is totally funny,Kudrow makes the show Fantastic With her Excellent performance!And She Deserves The Emmy! Valerie Is smartly invented,She is a lady that just wants to be everyones friend,And Doesn't Like to be embarrassed!!THE COMEBACK IS THE BEST SHOW EVER! Aplods for Kudrow and everyone that helped to get this wacky on TV! Kudrow is on her best alone,even though she was fantastic on friends too i just Hope someone would be smart enough to give this show a couple of more seasons,i think many people would be pleased!! I hope the best of luck to the comeback to the emmys,and i hope they will come home with two Golden statues!

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.

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.