Valerie Cherish does her best Al Pacino in the latest teaser for HBO reboot of "The Comeback." A reader sent me part of the Entertainment Weekly article about the new season and although it was piecemeal cellphone photos of pages -- and I said I wanted to be surprised! -- it sounds like the premise has to do with HBO doing a documentary about the fake reality show about Val's comeback. (Meta much?) Not sure how I feel about this -- I guess it was the only way to re-involve the originals as it's unlikely "Room and Bored" would be on nine seasons later -- but I'm going to leave it to the genius minds of Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow. They haven't done me wrong yet!
UPDATE: EW has a clearer explanation of the new season's plot and it makes more sense:
Set in 2014, season two finds desperate actress Valerie Cherish (Kudrow) cast in Seeing Red, a single-camera HBO dramedy written by her old nemesis Paulie G., the writer who all but terrorized her on the set of their 2005 sitcom Room & Bored. Fresh from his second stint in rehab, Paulie has written a dark HBO comedy loosely based on his behind the scenes struggles with drugs while working with Valerie on Bored. “Valerie agrees to play it even though she’s probably playing the worst version of herself, because she thinks it will take her to the next level,” says co-creator King. “The closer Valerie gets to this heat, the more her life starts to fall apart.”
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