{"id":166,"date":"2026-05-29T16:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2026-05-29T16:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T16:16:13","slug":"hacks-finale-is-a-moving-tribute-to-comedys-power-to-keep-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHacks\u201d finale is a moving tribute to comedy\u2019s power to keep going"},"content":{"rendered":"<section><p>Comedy loves a good callback. The fifth and final season of \u201cHacks\u201d contains some outstanding nods to triumphs that Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) savored together in the past, while also revisiting a few tribulations. But the ones in the finale top them all.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=161\">How seeing Bruce Springsteen in DC gave me hope<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The series began with the camera following Deborah backstage as she kindly banters with the staff who make her act look easy, and ends with Ava doing her version of that stroll behind the scenes on her own sitcom pilot\u2019s set.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Deborah we meet in the series premiere is an extremely wealthy comedy legend (which, in the business, can be polite code for calling somebody a has-been) who views the inexperienced, cocky Ava as an entitled nobody. The show closes with Ava and Deborah as the best of friends, enjoying croissants while waiting for a train at Paris\u2019 Gare de Lyon. It\u2019s a lovely scene, albeit clouded by despair. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cHacks\u201d departs at a transitional moment for stand-up comedy and late-night TV, much like the circumstances in which it arrived. Broadcast is in decline, and the late-night position Deborah long coveted is one most comics don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>After rising from the ashes of a career burned down by a vindictive ex-husband, circumventing naysayers to revive her stand-up career, making late-night history as the first woman host, only to abandon the job to retain her principles, and securing victory over one of the industry\u2019s most powerful men who tried to silence her, Deborah reveals she has cancer. In her mind, however, this foe isn\u2019t worth fighting.<\/p>\n<p>So the pair\u2019s haute holiday is meant to be Deborah\u2019s last hurrah. First stop, Paris. Last stop, for Deborah anyway, is an assisted suicide facility in Switzerland. If you have seen enough of \u201cHacks,\u201d you may not have doubted Deborah\u2019s commitment to this bit. For most of the finale\u2019s 46 minutes, she and Ava argue over why Deborah, someone who\u2019s never said die, would so easily surrender to a treatable malady.\u00a0 She\u2019s already reset her legacy at least three times, sure. But she\u2019s also vain and doesn\u2019t want to be remembered as wasting away. Why not go out on a high note?<\/p>\n<p>The answer \u201cHacks\u201d creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky write into the finale\u2019s climactic scene echoes the moment Deborah and Ava\u2019s professional partnership began, with each helping the other to remember why they love making people laugh.<\/p>\n<p>Television shows built around name-brand comics are a dime a dozen. But by making the art of comedy its vehicle and having two women steer through the industry\u2019s obstacle course, \u201cHacks\u201d became a celebration of blasting through hurdles. For Ava and Deborah, those impediments could be defined as ageism, sexism, homophobia, or personal vendettas. And for much of the show, both learned they could be their own worst enemies.<\/p>\n<p>Deborah\u2019s fifth season exploits include a romance with a much younger star, and this show\u2019s Harry Styles equivalent, Nico Hayes (Christopher Briney), which she ruins by assuming his genuine feelings for her are a publicity stunt. A few beats later, she partners with her longtime business advisor, Marcus (Carl Clemons-Hopkins), to open her own casino, The Diva \u2014 because while a Vegas residency is wonderful, it\u2019s better to own the house. It always wins, don\u2019t you know.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ava rises to captain her own sitcom ship, commanding this one with joy and gratitude, having learned that fear is antithetical to producing one\u2019s best work.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/84346abff57401c574d7773352d9c44b-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/84346abff57401c574d7773352d9c44b-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/84346abff57401c574d7773352d9c44b-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/84346abff57401c574d7773352d9c44b-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/84346abff57401c574d7773352d9c44b-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/84346abff57401c574d7773352d9c44b.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Courtesy of HBO Max)<\/span> Jean Smart in \u201cHacks\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Beyond all that, this curtain call means leaving behind one of TV\u2019s best intergenerational relationships and its most poignant, accurate exploration of the craggy emotional geography of friendships between women. Deborah and Ava became the best and worst parts of each other\u2019s lives. Even when they were locked in combat, they brought out each other\u2019s sharpest wit. Desiring a happy ending for these two, along with their manager, Jimmy LuSaque Jr. (Downs), and Jimmy\u2019s loopy bestie Kayla Schaefer (Meg Stalter), is only natural.<\/p>\n<p>Before Jimmy and Kayla can ascend, however, they get knocked down by none other than Kayla\u2019s father, Michael (W. Earl Brown), who runs Latitude, one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest talent management agencies. Daddy forces them to hand him their company and banishes Jimmy to the Latitude mailroom. But that move leads to Michael\u2019s undoing, as Jimmy uncovers a trail of financial malfeasance he uses to blackmail Michael into handing him and Kayla the keys to a larger kingdom and much more influence in a famously fickle town.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHacks\u201d departs at a transitional moment for stand-up comedy and late-night TV, much like the circumstances in which it arrived. Broadcast is in decline, and the late-night position Deborah long coveted is one most comics don\u2019t want, gunning instead for a Netflix or HBO deal, or a prime spot within Joe Rogan\u2019s edgelord-infested Comedy Mothership universe.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=159\">From Cornyn to Paxton: How Trump helped accelerate the Texas GOP\u2019s transformation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comedy was always a boy\u2019s club, something this series explored in detail as Deborah both pushed back against sexism while, at times, trying to placate the industry\u2019s patriarchy to get ahead.<\/p>\n<p>A giant twist in the series\u2019 penultimate episode, \u201cThe Garden,\u201d came with the reveal that the crowning achievement motivating Deborah all season long, a sold-out Madison Square Garden performance, was a cruel illusion. Deborah had planned her Garden debut to mark her victorious return once her \u201cLate Night\u201d non-compete expired. But her former network boss and present tormentor, Bob Lipka (Tony Goldwyn), bought out the place to prevent her from dishing dirt about him.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d5efb07715b6ea4d6b7677a6c243b615-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d5efb07715b6ea4d6b7677a6c243b615-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d5efb07715b6ea4d6b7677a6c243b615-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d5efb07715b6ea4d6b7677a6c243b615-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d5efb07715b6ea4d6b7677a6c243b615-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d5efb07715b6ea4d6b7677a6c243b615.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Courtesy of HBO Max)<\/span> Megan Stalter, Paul W. Downs, Hannah Einbinder and Jean Smart in \u201cHacks\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Deborah famously tried to muzzle Ava a few times, only to back off when she realized that by hurting her prot\u00e9g\u00e9, she was wounding herself. But the show never gave up on seeking a happier ending for both, separately and together. \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bob\u2019s move signals he\u2019ll do anything to silence her, now and in perpetuity. He offers her a generous payoff to stay quiet, and she tells him, in so many words, to stick it. Then she mounts a free show in Central Park, something he can\u2019t buy out from under her, that breaks attendance records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Garden\u201d premiered on the same Thursday as the finale episode of \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\u201d Some believe Colbert\u2019s exit marks the beginning of the end of the broadcast late-night genre, and that may end up being true. But Colbert presented that series finale as if it were just another episode, one that closed with a giant wormhole drawing him and the audience into an unknown dimension where the host happily performed a song with a few of his friends, as if to insinuate the show would go on somehow, somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the next day Colbert commandeered an episode of \u201cOnly in Monroe,\u201d the same Michigan-based public access program he hosted in 2015 before his \u201cLate Show\u201d debut. Although CBS Studios produced that hour, the latest \u201cOnly in Monroe\u201d showed a version of Colbert largely unfettered by broadcast restrictions, with his talent at its freest and most unhinged since his early Comedy Central days. Proof, as former \u201cLate Show\u201d host David Letterman told him, that powerful people can take a comedian\u2019s show, but they can\u2019t take their voice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHacks\u201d showed that in action for five seasons, whether Deborah battled to be taken seriously or Ava fought for her shot. Deborah famously tried to muzzle Ava a few times, only to back off when she realized that by hurting her prot\u00e9g\u00e9, she was wounding herself. The show never gave up on seeking a happier ending for both, separately and together. \u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-165\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b49387a2d1b56d8b6ca4c112d5176721-1024x691.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b49387a2d1b56d8b6ca4c112d5176721-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b49387a2d1b56d8b6ca4c112d5176721-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b49387a2d1b56d8b6ca4c112d5176721-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b49387a2d1b56d8b6ca4c112d5176721-1536x1037.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b49387a2d1b56d8b6ca4c112d5176721.jpg 1692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><span>(Courtesy of HBO Max)<\/span> Jean Smart in \u201cHacks\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For a woman who Hollywood exiles into the Nevada desert, only for her to build an empire and return to Los Angeles to conquer the industry, besting cancer should be a cinch. But the superstar isn\u2019t convinced until the very last moment, when she and Ava are about to take their final train ride and can\u2019t resist trading a few wisecracks about death.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best part of dying for a person with disordered eating is having a second croissant,\u201d quips Ava, goading Deborah to one-up her: No, she says, the best part of dying is not having to save receipts, because you know you\u2019ll never be audited again. Ava comes back with, the best part of dying is knowing how ticked off people are going to be when they realize how much money you left your dogs. But the worst part of dying, Deborah replies, is that she won\u2019t be able to see how her corgis spend her $550,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ava steps away for a moment, giving Deborah an opportunity to reach for her notebook to scribble a thought . . . then it happens. She comes up with a superior punch line, one worth delivering to an audience. Comedy wins the argument again, delaying Deborah\u2019s self-imposed deadline indefinitely. \u201cI may not have 30 years, but I think I have another hour,\u201d she tells Ava, and they clasp each other in an embrace reminiscent of the greatest Hollywood movie romances \u2014 except, and even better, it radiates love and relief, the kind shared by two friends who can\u2019t live without each other.<\/p>\n<p>With that, \u201cHacks\u201d goes out on a Seinfeldian high note, cutting to Deborah and Ava happily strolling the Vegas strip on a sun-soaked day as a Barbra Streisand-Judy Garland duet lilts behind them. We won\u2019t see what comes next, so we\u2019ll just have to trust that there\u2019s always a better joke to be written. And that\u2019s enough of a reason to keep on striving.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationacrossamerica.com\/?p=155\">E. 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