fromThe New Yorker
10 hours agoIn "Hacks," Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder Gave Us an Odd Couple for the Ages
When we met Deborah, she was living large but stuck on autopilot, rehashing the same dated material on the casino stage, night after night. In other words, she was a hack. In the pilot episode, Deborah's manager, Jimmy (played by Downs) pairs her up with another one of his clients, a younger comedy writer, Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), whose career has stalled after an ill-advised tweet about a right-wing senator. (Cancelled on Twitter? So 2021.)
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