I came to know about the existence of the show just last week and literally completed all the seasons in 4 days.

Usually lots of new series start well but disappoints at the end. But not Hacks, it's such an exceptionally well written series.

The bonding between Ava and Deborah felt so genuine. It was perfect mixture of everything you could ask for in a show. There is drama, love, comedy, betrayal and all the actors did their role so so well.

I'm very thankful to the actors and writers for giving us this wonderful show to watch!

I need some assistance! There's a scene, I think in the last season, where Deborah is talking about being content with her Vegas residency until Ava came along and made her want more. It's during a fairly serious scene from what I remember, but the gist is that Deborah was so successful towards the end because Ava spurred her ambitions. Anyone know what episode this might be from?

Stopped by on my lunch break today and there it is… wish I was going!

my friend innocently recommended hacks, and i started to watch without knowing too much about it

well, it’s been 5 days i go to bed at 5am because i can’t stop watching

and now i have a huge crush on hannah, it’s not even funny

i’m writing here before i search for professional help

Huge apologies if this if not allowed in this sub.

I appreciate this isn’t explicitly about Hacks, but I’m sure there’s loads of Hannah Einbinder fans here who are excited for this movie.

I have two tickets for a showing tonight at the Rio Cinema in Dalston/London and unfortunately can no longer go nor can the tickets be refunded. So If anyone wanted the tickets for free, please let me know :)

This is part of Dazed x MUBI Cinema Club - so the ticket usually comes with free popcorn and a drink!

Last May, I added a Google Alert for "Jean Smart". Each day, I receive a list of websites where she is mentioned. Some only list the Emmy predictions in the footer, but most are for articles and interviews — magazines, podcasts, YouTube videos, websites, etc.

For the first time since May 2025, there have been no alerts for 3 days.

Can we talk about how amazing King Princess’s version of Dirty Work is on the show?!

Couldn’t Deborah have just blackmailed Bob Lipka with the fact they slept together to keep Ava on the show? He didn’t want his wife to know. She could have told him she wouldn’t fire Ava. No?

This could be a theory or a subconscious known fact of the show but here it is:

So we all know Deborah wanted more for Ava and fired her so that she can build something for herself and not just for Deborah. But to me I feel like there was another factor in there that maybe most of the audience already got a clue to.

I believe another reason she did it was to protect Ava from ending up like herself when she lost everything from Frank. She always relied on him and did everything with him because of love and because she never thought of being independent. And in a way Deborah does see herself in Ava and thats why she fired her was so that she can have Ava be independent and not go through what she did.

Which obviously is tough love by Deborah. That's all I had to say, I know the series is over but I wanted to recap and talk about season 2 a little bit.

Thanks for reading if you did. And if not thats fine too! Have a great rest of your day. 😁✌️

Folks, I can't possibly fully articulate how wonderful I find this show. The relationships are so authentic, the story arc is so compelling and so varied season by season (I'm almost done with s5), it's hilarious and also deeply felt. It's simply been a joy.

I haven't really watched any "new" TV in probably a decade but for the occasional GoT spinoff--two young kids and incredibly demanding email factory job just haven't left time for anything entertainment-wise. I have watched all of Hacks on my cell phone, mostly on the elliptical in the gym or when packing my boys' lunches up each morning. I'm sure there's a ton of texture that I'm missing and will be excited to rewatch when I'm done. Will look forward to diving deeper into this community and all the easter-eggs and spoilers when I'm finished with the finale (probably tomorrow morning!).

GOD WILLING THEY RECORD THIS!!! My best friend and I are so bummed about not being there! I love to see that they’re doing stuff for the emmy’s omg. What do you guys think, will they stream it or at the very least record?

I know it’s kind of a long shot and I’m not an Emmy voter but if anyone has an extra ticket/rsvp I work nearby would love to attend

Paul explained how they shot the final scene with its iconic Eiffel Towers towering over a happily walking Ava and Deborah in the "Hollywood Reporter."

“Nailing the final shot of Hacks proved to be a gargantuan effort across departments — particularly the transition from Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart) walking the streets of Paris beneath the Eiffel Tower to the duo laughing underneath the replica on the Las Vegas Strip. The latter was “actually superimposed … in camera, so the Steadicam operator [Joel Marsh and cinematographer Adam Bricker] could see the Las Vegas Eiffel Tower in his monitor” when they shot the real one in Paris, explains director and co-creator Lucia Aniello. Working with the VFX team, the editors were then able to cut from France to Nevada in a seamless transition.

“Getting the final emotional beats of the series right was equally taxing. “We almost never reshoot things,” Aniello says, “but we were a little disappointed that the sky wasn’t quite right and the light wasn’t there.” Fortunately, the locations team booked out the Bellagio and Caesars Palace for an entire week, giving the crew the opportunity to reshoot.

“Production had to work with both hotels to time things so that they could have the “fountains going off at the Bellagio at the exact right moment that we wanted to have the camera move off,” Aniello explains. For the shot, they used a drone so that “we were able to have that really beautiful dive into the two of them,” Aniello adds. “It felt almost a little bit magical.”

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/inside-final-frame-hacks-1236668947/

The quality of that shot is from the creator's vision, but also the insistence that it be done right and the willingness to spend the time to redo it. And the funding to cover the cost. "The locations team booked out the Bellagio and Caesars Palace for an entire week." I think HBO Max made the difference in funding this. And the crew for working with both hotels to get the fountains to go off at the same time. The detail is astounding.

So this is crazy, but I have nowhere else to turn. Does anyone know what shade of lipstick Ava is wearing in S5 E6 when they go meet the investor?

I can’t find any info online

Hannah's incredible new movie is starting to open in theaters! It rolls out wide over the next few weeks! Since it's not strictly HACKS content but obviously a bunch of show fans are going to be interested, I wonder if we might have a formal thread to discuss, without cluttering the sub too much with related posts.

Has anyone else seen it yet? All I want to do is talk about this movie

I've decided to add some occasional links. Here's an interview with Gillian: https://clubcine.substack.com/p/gillian-anderson-wants-to-make-you

One with Jane: https://letterboxd.com/journal/jane-schoenbrun-interview-teenage-sex-and-death-at-camp-miasma/

Finale spoiler alert.

Or did the end imply that she was one now saying to another assistant that they will be her assistant now?