Like the mythical city of Brigadoon, Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback has returned to television after many years away. Yet time has not stood still for the show’s inhabitants, older in a changing world that values them less and which they navigate with less assurance.
Kudrow, who created and writes the series with Michael Patrick King, was a player during the twilight of network-dominated television, cast in a smart, influential show with wide, multigenerational appeal; in a quantitative sense, at least, everything would be downhill from there, as the medium transformed and transformed again.
