[This story contains spoilers from the season five premiere of Hacks.]
In the opening moments of the fifth and final season of the HBO series Hacks, Jean Smart’s Debra Vance is dead — or so scream the headlines on newspaper clippings at a memorial erected outside the gates of her Las Vegas mansion. The famous — perhaps legendary — comic is horrified to see the shrine when she pulls up with Ava, her head writer, comic foil, and best frenemy. However, being the megalomaniac she is, Deb is even more horrified by what her obituary says about her life as a pioneering underdog in the man’s world of comedy.
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The set-up, which resolves season four’s cliffhanger that saw Debra and Ava far off in Singapore after her late-night show’s success imploded, works in the same manner the Emmy-winning series has since
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