Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

catalinaaperez I loved Lisa Kudrow on "friends" as Phoebe Buffay(I hate to be a cliché), in fact that is where I discovered her whole existence. I even tolerate her on "Web Therapy" where she plays the role of a web therapist called Fiona Wallice. (note the word Tolerate). But watching the first two episodes of the first season and the first episode of the second, was just a complete waste of my time. Lisa Kudrow playing this so called "Valerie Cherish" has proved to have certainly aged well, but the entire TV show lacks true comedy. Not to mention the lack of a story to find interesting and worth while watching. I comment because there seems to be a lack of negative reviews to guide people such as myself to better judgment.

Angus T. Cat When I saw the first episode of "The Comeback" I thought it was made for the LA and "industry" crowd as it was full of in jokes about how hard it was to get a table at the best restaurants and get a camera crew in position to film the action between the diners. I'm very glad I followed the rest of the episodes as "The Comeback" grew from jokes about several reality show crews filming at once into a moving exposure of Valerie Cherish, aging sitcom actress, gamely trying to ingratiate herself with her costars, who couldn't watch the sitcom made in her prime because it was past their bedtime. The show's format of supposed unedited outtake footage displayed Valerie putting on her brave face and trying her best despite being put in a pink jogging suit by the sitcom's writers who mimed performing degrading sexual acts with her late at night in the writer's suite. It showed Valerie responding to her young co star's rise to fame and the cover of Rolling Stone by being positive and hiring a new publicist who got her on the cover of Be Yoga. She gave it her 110%, spending over $10,000 on a new yoga and meditation room and practicing her best position for the cover shoot until she was stiff and had to take painkillers. The format cleverly revealed Valerie rehearsing supposed spontaneous comments about the events around her and positioning herself for the most flattering camera angle. The ever-present cameras caught the writers' cruel laughs in the corners of the room, Valerie's grin being stretched very tight, and Valerie's husband clearly getting fed up with making love in the bathroom and having to watch everything he said. Just when I was ready to sum up "The Comeback" as a crafty portrait of what an actress will do to succeed, the cameras exposed the pain behind Valerie's grin and drive. The final episode took the sympathy for her even further, becoming one of the sharpest comments I've ever seen on show business, reality shows, and celebrity culture. I'm sure "The Comeback" will be remembered for capturing the fictions people spin around themselves and the fictions behind the shows that supposedly reveal the truth about people's real lives. What a shame that the real life "Comeback" wasn't scheduled for a second season like Valerie's reality show was.

gus120970 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.

Teenagemillionaire 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.