“Hacks” is, and has always been, a relationship comedy. The HBO Max series from Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky takes an exhaustively progressive Gen Z comedy writer and pairs her with a ...

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but when it comes to the return of the Max Original comedy “Hacks,” that platitude is not the only reason why its third season is the best so far.

There’s an episode late in “Hacks” Season 4 where Kaitlin Olson swoops in and steals the show. Now, to anyone familiar with her game — that is, anyone familiar with “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” ...

“Hacks” also takes a time jump, a time-honored technique for bypassing an intractable crossroads on the way to a cleaner reset. A year after the events of the Season 2 finale, Deborah is still riding ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

Hacks is back - and better than ever? That's the critical consensus for the Emmy-winning comedy, which returns with its fourth season on Thursday with two episodes. As of this morning, Season 4 has a ...

Three years ago when Hacks premiered, my colleague Jason Tabrys observed how the Max series proved that the comedy generation gap is certainly not insurmountable. That central truth of the series ...

The secret to becoming a long-running sitcom is to do the same thing, differently. Doing it better is a dream. With its third season, “Hacks” indicates that dreams may actually come true. At the same ...

Push-pull. Love-hate. That tension is the backbone of “Hacks,” which has only grown more potent over time as the central duo — a veteran standup in the mold of Joan Rivers and the much younger writer ...

Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky's award-winning Max series pushes its central couple, Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart), to joyful — and unexpected — extremes. Ava and ...