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The Glorious, Complicated Humanity of Jean Smart
By now it's well-established that Jean Smart is having a moment, with a string of recent appearances in Fargo (2015),...
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Posted Saturday 7/17/21 at 4:03AM EDT
Hacks is essentially The Devil Wears Prada but subbing out Anna Wintour for Joan Rivers
The HBO Max comedy is really a show about fame, not stand-up, says Olivia Cathcart.
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Posted Thursday 7/15/21 at 4:07PM EDT
Ted Lasso leads Television Critics Association Awards nominations
The Apple TV+ comedy earned five nominations two days after picking up 20 nods for this year's Primetime Emmys.
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Nine Takeaways from the 2021 Emmy Nominations
Joe Reid isn't just Primetimer's managing editor.
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Posted Saturday 7/10/21 at 12:20AM EDT
Hacks does a disservice by not portraying comedy's creative process
“Hacks is not centrally concerned with the business of show business," says B.
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Posted Friday 7/02/21 at 2:17AM EDT
Could Jean Smart's likely Emmy nominations for Hacks and Mare of Easttown help or hurt her chances of winning?
EW points to past examples where being up for Emmys in two categories in the same year hurt the actor,...
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Hein’s Picks: The Ten Best Shows of 2021 (So Far)
Jon Hein knows TV.
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Posted Wednesday 6/23/21 at 10:31PM EDT
Conan O'Brien talks Hacks' accuracy, the long wait for his HBO Max show, and how his podcast, Conan Without Borders and the pandemic led him to quit late-night
In a wide-ranging interview with Vulture's Josef Adalian -- who first interviewed Conan in 1994, six months after his Late...
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Posted Saturday 6/19/21 at 4:05AM EDT
Hacks wouldn't work without Hannah Einbinder's Ava
The HBO Max comedy "is as pure a two-hander as I’ve seen on television in recent years — a comedy...
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Posted Saturday 6/12/21 at 5:53AM EDT
Hacks perfectly encapsulates the current moment of reevaluating real-life, unfairly maligned women
"It’s the perfect companion to our larger cultural moment as we start to reckon with how much our culture has...
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Posted Tuesday 6/08/21 at 2:50PM EDT
HBO Max renews Hacks for Season 2
Jean Smart has won widespread acclaim for playing legendary standup comedian Deborah Vance, joined by Hannah Einbinder.
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Posted Saturday 5/29/21 at 2:40AM EDT
Hacks understands how ageism creeps up on women
"Hacks knows all of us start out as some version of (Hannah Einbinder's upstart comic) Ava but start to identify with...
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Posted Monday 5/24/21 at 9:41PM EDT
Sam Asghari is becoming known for more than being "Britney Spears' boyfriend" with roles on Hacks and Black Monday
Do people know who Asghari is when he auditions for roles? "Usually casting directors don’t," he says.
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Posted Saturday 5/22/21 at 4:50AM EDT
Jean Smart is seeing a career "re-re-rebirth" thanks to Hacks and Mare of Easttown
“It’s just odd, because I don’t think I’m any better now than I was before,” Smart says of all the...
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Posted Friday 5/14/21 at 3:45AM EDT
HBO Max's Hacks is the rare show about the business of comedy that actually manages to be funny
"It's not easy to make a good TV show about comedy," says Kristen Baldwin.