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2021

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Comedy drama

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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How does one top an outdoor concert in Central Park, which even a comedy legend like Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) admits will make “a great lead to an obituary”? In the series finale, Hacks doesn’t really try, but the episode provides a fitting and bittersweet coda to the fable of a maverick talent who’ll never stop reaching for that next joke, with the help of her combative companion Ava (Hannah Einbinder). Smart has won four Emmys as Deborah, and while Lisa Kudrow is serious competition this year for another final season (of HBO’s The Comeback), I wouldn’t count her out from joining the ranks of Mary Tyler Moore and Candice Bergen with a historic fifth win.

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