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Hacks
Season 1
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A dark mentorship forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comic, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old comedy writer.
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10 Episodes
There Is No Line
E1
There Is No Line
An aging comedian, about to lose dates for her Vegas show, meets with a young comedy writer also in trouble due to a scathing joke she tweeted. This could be the beginning of a beautiful relationship-if they don't kill each other first.
Primm
E2
Primm
Deborah tests Ava's limits.
A Gig's A Gig
E3
A Gig's A Gig
Ava gains insight into Deborah's past.
D'Jewelry
E4
D'Jewelry
At DJ's jewelry expo, Ava comes to better understand Deborah and DJ's complicated mother-daughter relationship. Deborah receives an unexpected piece of ammunition against Marty.
Falling
E5
Falling
Deborah blackmails Marty. Ava has a wild night to remember in Vegas that puts everything in perspective.
New Eyes
E6
New Eyes
While Deborah recovers from surgery, she and Ava have a unique bonding experience when Deborah dispels a major misperception about her past.
Tunnel of Love
E7
Tunnel of Love
DJ's birthday party becomes a surprise dual function. Meanwhile, Deborah and Marty reconnect.
1.69 Million
E8
1.69 Million
With a little encouragement from Ava, Deborah’s unpolished set sparks a career-defining moment.
Interview
E9
Interview
Ava tries to keep a secret from Deborah, but someone in Deborah’s inner-circle leverages the truth. Meanwhile, Deborah stares down the barrel of her first radically honest show.
I Think She Will
E10
I Think She Will
For her final performance at the Palmetto, Deborah must decide between playing it safe and putting her entire career on the line. Meanwhile, Ava deals with a family crisis.
Cast of Season 1
Jean Smart
Deborah Vance
Hannah Einbinder
Ava
Carl Clemons-Hopkins
Marcus
Season 1 Reviews
The New Yorker
Doreen St. Felix
Christopher McDonald is perfect as Marty...and Carl Clemons-Hopkins gives solidity to the questions of race and wealth that inevitably arise when a gay Black man devotes himself to an older white woman.
The Ringer
Alison Herman
Hacks isn't just a two-hander. It's also a study in the strange bubble that sets in around the rich and famous...
Salon.com
Melanie McFarland
Watching and enjoying it is enough, but Smart and Einbinder make us want to sit with these two, Smart especially, as Deborah and Ava enrich each other's existence.
The Hollywood Reporter
Inkoo Kang
Smart has enjoyed a welcome career revival in the past few years... but her starring role here allows her to finally showcase her wild versatility.
USA Today
Kelly Lawler
The two actors make an electric pair, and the show combines sharp wit with a great deal of realism and emotion.
The Atlantic
Sophie Gilbert
The genius of Hacks is how deftly it critiques decades of TV comedy, reminding viewers of what's missing now (stars of Deborah's wattage and grace) as much as what's changed for the better.
Autostraddle
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
Hacks takes two very unlikable characters, mixes them together, and transmutes them into something truly irresistible. It's a staggering feat of chemistry.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
This is a big, brilliant, wholly original performance, with Smart constantly shifting emotional gears and deftly stealing every scene she's in while somehow also managing to make room for the other actors in the room to have their moments.
indieWire
Ben Travers
"Hacks" always knows who's in the right, especially when it's both of them. Through six episodes, there's a comforting ease to the two lead's repartee that makes for similarly easy viewing.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
The HBO Max comedy is first and foremost a vehicle for [Jean Smart], one that starts off shakily but gets sturdier with each new half-hour.
Rolling Stone
Alan Sepinwall
Would it help if the jokes the two work on were stronger? Sure, but Hacks also talks a lot about how hard good joke-writing is. It gets everything else right, so it deserves the extra time to figure that last part out.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
[`Einbinder] has only a few small acting credits... But she's confident and at ease and does a remarkable job of embodying a seemingly awful person who doesn't think she's awful and who, not all that deep down, isn't that awful at all.
TIME Magazine
Judy Berman
Throughout the six episodes I screened, the core of the show is Smart's performance, which brings the perfect balance of steeliness and vulnerability.
The Atlantic
Megan Garber
It is mordant. It is subtle. It is sweet. It understands how many ways there are for people to be coupled.
Bitch Media
Sophia Stewart
Hacks understands that arriving at this point of artistic and professional self-actualization is fraught, especially for women.
Chicago Tribune
Nina Metz
"Hacks" is exceedingly watchable in all its sun-bleached glory if you take it on its own terms: Not so much a comedy but a wry drama.
BuzzFeed News
Shannon Keating
Exploring what's funny about the pain of human existence isn't anything new in comedy, of course, but the genre has perhaps taken on a new tenor now that comedians are writing about the particularities of their self-loathing...
Vox
Emily St. James
Hacks is rare in its ability to be genuinely funny and dramatic in equal measure.
NPR
Glen Weldon
Hacks creates a world of characters and dialogue and situations you want to spend as much time with as possible.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jen Chaney
Every time Smart is onscreen, she makes you curious to hear what's going to come out of her mouth but even more curious to hear how she's going to say it.
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