Lisa Kudrow explains why 'The Comeback' ends with final season

TV icon Lisa Kudrow is all set to bid farewell to Valerie Cherish, as The Comeback returns for a third and final season.

The 62-year-old actress reprises her Emmy-nominated role as Cherish, a fading sitcom star trying to revive her career, more than a decade after season two aired in 2014 and over 20 years since the show’s debut in 2005.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter ahead of the premiere, the Friends star revealed, "Season three would be the ‘third and final.’"

She continued, "I don’t know if I’ll want to do it again in 10 years, so let’s be done, that way no one is asking what’s next or whether we will even want to do more."

Moreover, she added, "The most respectful thing we can do for the audience and for the character is make it a three-part story. It’s a trilogy, and this is the end."

Meanwhile, the series co-creator Michael Patrick King also reflected on the show’s rocky start, “We were hit with such a wave of disbelief and confusion because what we had done connected with us in such a strong way, we were so thrown by the fact that it wasn’t connecting with others… We should have been given a second season.”

Furthermore, the 62-year-old actress noted, “I felt really great about what we had done and knew that we couldn’t have done better… Ten years later, they did.”

Interestingly, season three will follow Cherish as she takes on a new role in a show written by AI. Returning cast includes Dan Bucatinsky, Laura Silverman, Damian Young and Tim Bagley, alongside newcomers Matt Cook, Ella Stiller, John Early, Abbi Jacobson, and Kudrow’s son Julian Stern.

Notably, The Comeback season three premieres March 22 on HBO Max, with weekly episodes leading to the series finale on May 10.

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