This is it, Hacks fans – the show’s (almost) over. Come April 9th, Hacks’ fifth and final season will premiere on HBO Max.
Deadline sat down with Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder and showrunners Jen Statsky, Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello to find out what’s coming for Deborah and Ava and how we’ll say goodbye — Einbinder said there had been “buckets” of tears while finishing up the show, while Aniello admitted “I’ve been crying every day.”
By Season 5’s start, Deborah and Ava are back from their ill-fated Season 4 sojourn to Singapore and it’s been rocky, to say the least. After the Season 4 live TV meltdown that cost Deborah her longed-for talk show, the duo are surely set to make some sort of comeback… but how did Smart and Einbinder feel when they first read the scripts and saw how it all ends?
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