James Burrows' role on The Comeback, where he plays a thinly veiled version of himself, isn't a big one. Over the course of the HBO sitcom's three seasons, he's only appeared in eight episodes, sometimes for no more than a single scene. And yet he serves a critical function in its overarching story about the travails of an aging TV actress, one that's made his brief appearances both memorable and often surprisingly moving.
Lisa and I would meet every couple of weeks for lunch - quote, unquote - and then we'd get around to, 'What do you think Valerie would be doing right now?' King said at SXSW, where the first two episodes of the third and final season of what they're now calling 'a trilogy' screened to a rapt audience of The Comeback die-hards.
Probably the threesome was the most standout moment. I remember being like, 'Oh, my mom's going to call me after this one.' The scene was teased in racy promotional ads and immediately sparked protests, with the Parents Television Council expressing concerns about the content.
On Thursday evening, an exhausted Sarah McBride sank into a pale yellow armchair in her Congressional office. It had been a long week, and she still had to drive two hours home to Delaware-but first, she'd agreed to watch the new Queer Eye, the tenth and final season of the hit Netflix makeover show, which is set in DC. On a wall-mounted TV-which typically shows a live feed of the House floor-we scrolled through the episodes and landed on one about a local tour guide.
Valerie's thirst for fame & acclaim hasn't changed, even if the fickle entertainment industry keeps on shifting right under her feet. Still riding high off her Emmy win for the meta dramedy Seeing Red and emboldened by the recent resurgence of the sitcom format, she lands a gig leading-and executive producing-the new multi-cam sitcom How's That?!.
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Being Jackie, though, she never raises her mellifluous, Atlantic-accented voice, even while reprimanding her son. "Only one of us knows what it's like to marry into this family," she reminds him. "There isn't enough exposure in the world to prepare a woman to be your wife." A marriage to a Kennedy is not a partnership but a trade-off: Any woman who agrees to marry John will have to orbit him, give her life for his.
You know who I'm shipping right now? Pippa and Diana. You know who I'm no longer shipping? Bree and Evan. Wrigley is the one man left in the Tell Me Lies universe who doesn't deserve immediate jail, and the big reveal at the end of "Fix Me Up, Girl" is that he's the one blowing up Bree's phone on her wedding day because they've been having an affair.