‘Hacks’ review: Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance sets her sights on a late-night TV gig in Season 3
by Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
May 02, 2024
3 minutes
There’s real tenderness in a show like “Hacks.” Real cruelty, too, and that’s separate from its insult comedy sensibility. Back for its third and strongest season on Max, the Joan Rivers-esque showbiz veteran Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her semi-obnoxious Gen Z writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) have a new goal: To land Deborah the job hosting a late-night talk show.
It’s the same quasi-“Tonight Show” gig show that she lost earlier in
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