Ambition has almost always been a thorny issue for television’s fictional females. When Mary Richards applied for a secretarial job at a local television station in Minneapolis on “The Mary Tyler ...

There’s a comment on a Reddit thread I was perusing not long ago that has been making me think a lot about Hacks, particularly the final season. Some months ago, I remember going down a late night ...

The Max series about two female comedians from different generations has been nominated for best comedy series twice before, but this is its first win. By Julia Jacobs “Hacks,” the Max series about ...

Spoiler alert: This article discusses key plot points from Season 4 of Hacks. Voting for the 2025 Emmy Awards began this week, and Season 4 of the award-winning series Hacks on Max is once again in ...

When Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky came up with the idea for "Hacks," they had a five-season plan in mind. And as the red carpet at Wednesday night's Season 5 celebration noted, the HBO ...

Approximately 50 years later, stand-up comic Deborah Vance, played by the inimitable Jean Smart, on “Hacks” finds herself navigating a similar conundrum when she discovers that her dream job, a spot ...