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- HBO Max
- May 2, 2024
- HBO Max
- May 2, 2024
Summary Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a Las Vegas comedian, mentors Ava (Hannah Einbinder), a 25-year-old writer in this dark comedy from Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky.
Created By: Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky
- HBO Max
- May 2, 2024
- HBO Max
- May 2, 2024
Summary Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a Las Vegas comedian, mentors Ava (Hannah Einbinder), a 25-year-old writer in this dark comedy from Paul W. Downs, Lucia Aniello and Jen Statsky.
Created By: Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
90
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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The series has never been better. Rather than feeling lazy or bloated, it has found exciting stakes and challenges for its characters that span the professional and the personal. .... Hacks also remains—mercifully—one of the funniest shows on television. Although it’s not a sitcom, it almost competes with 30 Rock for the sheer number of jokes per scene, yet it still manages to remain smart and create a deep sense of pathos.
Hacks’ third season, which drops its first two episodes on Max May 2, is punchy and lithe, bringing beloved comic Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her socially conscious co-writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) back for a season that tightens the show’s focus, but keeps its ambitions broad. It’s a major triumph in an increasingly dreary streaming landscape.
“Hacks” excels at giving the audience what they want, even mid-reinvention, and the series continues to exemplify the upsides of excellent episodic structure with half-hours built around Deborah’s roast, a Christmas special and, if you can believe it, a hike in the woods.
In one episode, Ava and Deborah get lost in the woods—is it, at long last, a metaphor? It feels more like the infamous Christmas episode of "Ted Lasso," aka landfill. Mostly, however, "Hacks" is sublime.
Meticulously plotted and boasting some of the show’s best jokes, Season 3 of Hacks will have you panting for the next series as the final credits roll.
So far, Season Three of Hacks is free of the formulas that make lesser shows so much more hack-y.
What’s always been good about the series is still happily intact. .... But the season also requires some padding, which is where it runs into trouble. A few episodes, particularly one that has Deborah and Ava pointlessly lost in the woods while on a hike, play like wheel-spinning.
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