The Comeback Recap 11/23/14: Season 2 Episode 3 “Valerie Is Brought to Her Knees”

The Comeback Recap 11/23/14: Season 2 Episode 3 "Valerie Is Brought to Her Knees"

Tonight on HBO The Comeback returns with an all new Sunday November 23,season 2 episode 3 called “Valerie Is Brought to Her Knees” and we have your weekly recap below for you. On this evening’s episode, Valerie [Lisa Kudrow] meets her costar, Seth Rogen, who will be playing the fictionalized Paulie G. on “Seeing Red.” Later, a fantasy sequence tests Valerie’s desire to be back in the spotlight.

On the episode, preferring she use a professional crew for behind-the-scenes footage of “Seeing Red,” HBO asked Valerie to bring back Jane, the producer who followed her on “Room and Bored.” Meanwhile, Val’s publicist, Billy, got her an appointment with celebrity stylist Brad Goreski for the Golden Globes. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed it, we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.

On tonight’s episode as per HBO’s synopsis, “the first day on set for “Seeing Red,” Valerie meets her A-list movie star co-star -Seth Rogen (playing himself) – who will be portraying Mitch, the fictionalized Paulie G. Later, Valerie does her best to put on a brave face while filming a fantasy sequence in the show. Also featured in this episode are Mark L. Young as Tyler, Brian Delate as Ron Wesson and Rose Abdoo as Marianina.”

Tonight’s episode airs at 10 PM EST on HBO and is bound to be full of all the typical twists and turns that we have come to expect from THE COMEBACK. We’ll be recapping it right here for you but in the meantime feel free to hit up the comments now and tell us your thoughts on season 2.

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Tonight’s episode of The Comeback begins with Valerie at HBO working on her new show, it’s the first day of filming and Seth Rogen is guest-starring with her.  She heads to the front gate to meet Seth Rogen and gives him “Happy 1st Day” flowers.  After dumping the vase in his lap while he is trying to get his ID out of his glove box, Valerie takes the flowers back and says that she will leave them in his trailer.  He calls her “Ginger Snap” and jokes that she can leave his breakfast in the trailer too.  After Seth leaves Valerie gives one of her camera guys $40 and tells him to go to the grocery store and buy Seth Rogen a ham.

Valerie gets in her tracksuit and decides to do some “BTS” shots.  She gives her crew a tour of the set and shows them Paulie’s office where he “writes the hits and does the heroin.”  Her camera guy arrives with the ham and Valerie rushes to give it to Seth Rogen.  Seth explains to Paulie that it was just a joke and he said he wanted ham for breakfast.  Valerie has a gift for Paulie too, she gives him a black folder with the word “director” engraved on it and explains because it is his first day directing.

Before they start shooting Valerie has Mickey read lines with her.  Paulie interrupts and says he needs to talk to Valerie without her cameras.  He warns her that the show is important and he wants it to go well – she reassures him she does too.  Then begins asking him how she should say her lines and if she should raise her voice.  He tells her to do it however she would say it in real life.
Valerie begins shooting her scenes with Seth – who is playing the part of Mitch.  Seth screw up and breaks the wrong lamp so they call “cut.”  Paulie raves about how well Seth adlibbed the scene and how genius the lines were that he made up.  Then, Valier gets lectured because she said “keep out” instead of “stay out.”

Valerie finally gets out of work and arrives home at 3:00 AM.  She climbs in bed with Mark and complains that she is nervous about the sex scene she has coming up.  She hasn’t done a sex scene or even a make-out scene in years.  Mark reassures her that she will be fine – and offers to help her practice.

The next day they head back to the set, and Valerie gets her hair and make-up done for her big sex scene.  She learns that her make-up artist wears prayer beads and chants everyday.  A woman knocks on her trailer door and tells her “it is time to do the blow job scene.”  There are two extras in the scene that strip down next to her, Jane complains that she thinks they should skip the scene because they are exploiting women.  Paulie calls “Action” ad begins filming Valerie with the naked girls, he orders them to “start making the orgasm noises.”

Paulie offers Valerie knee-pads for her next scene, but Mickey reassures him that Val will be just fine.  Seth begins pretending to shoot up for the scene and Valerie gets nervous – she asks Paulie if she is supposed to act eager or reluctant.  Paulie tells her to “just blow him.”  Val begins adlibbing about being raped and they have to start over and tell her that it is a “touchy subject.”  After bickering over the scene Val finally gets on her knees and Seth Rogen begins moaning.

THE END!