Hacks

While watching the first two episodes I thought maybe this is ever so loosely based on Joan Rivers.

Wonderful show, great writing, great cast. What I am most annoyed by are the two seconds of Oldies music between scenes. They add nothing but a burst of music louder than the dialogue. Are they supposed to be there to scare awake geriatric watchers? We don't need constant musical references to understand and enjoy shows, Hollywood. If you make the writing strong and cast well, it's not necessary to add music or laugh tracks or any other outdated TV cheesiness.

The other thing is the recent edition of nude lesbian love scenes. Completely unnecessary. Rather than being a spicy addition, they only serve to make me sad for the actresses who still have to put up with this nonsense. Just stop it already, Hollywood. We're not interested in your male gaze BS anymore.

The writing, cast, and show idea are enough. It's really not necessary to throw in the garbage elements.

"Hacks" (S04, 10 eps, 30-min, MAX) at the end of S03, Deborah gets her late show finally but will not let Ava be head writer to play it "network safe". Ava surprises at the end, by soft-blackmailing her into the job, but Deborah is seething... and as S04 opens we see she will make life hell for Ava... they pretty much go bk-n-fth all season, but when Deborah lightly embarrasses a high profile guest on her show AND Ava is caught be the source of a story about that guest, the network chief says that Ava has to pay for it or Deborah's show is done. On her next live show, she torches the network by supporting Ava and says goodbye to everyone because she's finished. She and Ava fly to Singpore where she does a residency of translated-shows (so she doesn't brk her non-compete) but Ava tires of all that, they have a falling out and she tells Ava to go home. Final scene is that Jimmy frantically calls Ava stating the TMZ has run a piece that Deborah is dead! Ava runs to her room, finds her alive, but as they read the premature obit Deborah is incensed that they say that she retired to Singapore after ruining the late night franchise. She and Ava are to return to the US immediately to confront that, and that'll be where S05 starts. This was another outstanding season, episode to episode, not a wasted scene anywhere. And head writer, Lucia, has won several Emmies for her writing and directing efforts. It's criminal that Hannah can't get past the nomination level when Jean has won two for the show!

"Hacks" (S03, 9-eps, 32+ mins, MAX) This series, starring Jean Smart, continues to shine among so much streaming dross out there. "Deborah Vance" and her on-again-off-again assistant and head-writer "Ava Daniels" have such an entertaining, co-dependent relationship that it's just always fun from situation to situation. The series writing is funny, intriguing, and plausible. It's just so good in all the important dimensions. And at the season's finale, "Ava" finally makes a really important step in her growth, and that would be a good launch into a season four, if we're fortunate enough to get that green-lit, let's really hope so.

This is why is important to have multiple seasons, the characters evolution is important, maybe these two are not the most interesting character in season 1 but after two seasons in this year season you can see that the ladies are actually pretty deep girls with goals and insecurities and that's why i dont like cancellations, maybe the second season it's going to be better than the first fail season, in television you need time, and when you have time you have successfully histories like Hacks, its funny, awkward, interesting, and so much more and that's because it was renewed for two more seasons, so dont judge a book by its cover ok.

There's a reason Hacks has been nominated for so many awards since it debuted a few years ago, because it's laugh out loud funny. Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder deserve every bit the love they've been getting since this came out. Smart especially has had a lot of good roles over her career but this is easily the best performance of her career. Smart and Einbinder take two very unlikable characters and not only make you laugh but will make you root for them. This show works best when these two are together on screen. Every episode is perfectly paced and shows how these characters continue to evolve. As soon as you finish an episode you immediately want to watch the next and that's the best thing you can hope for out of a good tv show.