The AI Uncertainty Layer Ø [Some spoilers follow for the current seasons of The Comeback and Paradise] The new season of The Comeback, in addition to heralding the return of one of the great annoying-watchable characters in premium cable television, also introduces an element we've yet to see dramatized in comedies: AI as plot device. Kudrow's Valerie Cherish returns after many years away to find that television, or at least a certain kind of commoditized fast-streaming television, can now be written largely by machine.