New York Times Picks 2026's Best TV Shows, Highlighting The Comeback's Season 3
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Updated · The New York Times · Jun 15
New York Times Picks 2026's Best TV Shows, Highlighting The Comeback's Season 3
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jun 15
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The New York Times included “The Comeback” Season 3 in its midyear list of the best TV shows of 2026, calling the HBO Max revival one of the year’s standout series.
Season 3 arrives 21 years after the show began and uses Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish to satirize a third Hollywood era, this time centering on artificial intelligence as a threat to the creative class.
The paper said 2026 has produced breakout hits such as “Love Story” and “Summer House,” but not yet a single culture-dominating series on the scale of “Adolescence” in 2025 or “Severance” in 2022.
Its assessment framed the year so far as one of pleasant surprises and strong returning seasons rather than one seismic TV phenomenon.