The Comeback final season explores AI threat to Hollywood
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Updated · The New York Times · May 11
The Comeback final season explores AI threat to Hollywood
10 articles · Updated · The New York Times · May 11
The HBO satire ended on Sunday after three seasons across two decades, with Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish caught in backlash over an AI-written show.
Times critics James Poniewozik and Alissa Wilkinson said the season shifts focus from Valerie’s personal arc to industry-wide fears that artificial intelligence could become an extinction-level threat.
They framed the finale as reflecting wider Hollywood anxieties after fires, strikes and the pandemic, while portraying Valerie as a resilient survivor amid repeated upheaval.
With the Oscars creating separate awards, is human creativity in film becoming a niche, premium product?
When an AI writes a hit movie, who gets paid: the coders or the artists it learned from?