Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King talk “The Comeback” season 3, “Sex and the City” and more

HBO Max’s series The Comeback has come back again — but for the last time. “It wasn’t a big debate” that this third season would be the last of Michael Patrick King (Sex and the City) and Lisa Kudrow’s (Friends) satirical series. Talking with The Collider, Kudrow says, “We knew what we wanted to leave people with.”

From the very beginning, when the show first premiered over two decades ago, The Comeback was ahead of its time with semi-famous sitcom star Valerie Cherish (Kudrow) and her determination to recapture the spotlight through a reality TV show.

After being cancelled, the show resurfaced for Season 2 in 2014, capitalizing on a resurgence of reality television. Now, in Season 3, Valerie finally is offered a leading role on a multi-camera sitcom, but it’s written by AI. While this is most definitely a fly in Valerie’s ointment, King says The Comeback won’t be approaching this topical issue in a “hacky” way.

He says: “A.I. is moving fast. We talked to a lot of experts, and one of the things that was very clear very early is that A.I. is moving so fast that people don’t even know what it’s really capable of. So, we tried to leave that hacky ChatGPT-can’t-write-jokes way behind, because that was literally two years ago. People were doing their Oscar speeches, and the joke was that ChatGPT wrote it. So, we didn’t want to [dismiss] A.I. by making it dumb. What it is is constantly moving.”