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Runtime | 26 – 36 min |
Premiere: World | May 13, 2021 |
Channel | HBO Max (United States) |
Digital: World | September 5, 2022 |
Parental Advisory | Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking, Profanity, ... |
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Explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 94
It’s a pretty impressive threading of the needle. If anything, Season Two leans even more into the series’ strengths.
The six episodes made available for review deliver another superb showcase for Smart and Einbinder while also providing the standout-packed ensembl...
Deeper than the ironic name suggests, Hacks digs into vulnerability, self-image, and gender politics in refreshing ways.
Terrifier 2 is exhausting. Leone’s sequel wore me out, it’s objectionably devious nastiness too extreme even for me.
Hold your nerve and your stomach: this gorefest is almost too good to pass out while watching it.
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Polish up another Emmy for Jean Smart who's funnier, fiercer and deeper in her second season as a Vegas stand-up diva on a road tour with ...
Showrunners Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky and Lucia Aniello deserve much of the credit for steering the comedy right on that line between droll a...
The genius of Hacks is how deftly it critiques decades of TV comedy, reminding viewers of what’s missing now (stars of Deborah’s wattag...
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Every time Smart is onscreen, she makes you curious to hear what’s going to come out of her mouth but even more curious to hear how she&rsquo...
There are plenty of little reasons why the second season of Hacks doesn’t take a leap from very good-ness to greatness, but plenty of big reas...
But while the cast is great, the milieu is vivid, the images are polished and the atmosphere is effectively moody, "Things Heard & Seen" fails to c...
There are plenty of laughs along the way, but it’s the unforced emotional truths that make Hacks a right and proper vehicle for Smart.
The emphasis on Catherine puzzling out the house’s past grows tedious… and while Seyfried acquits herself and then some, an actor of her tale...
Smart has enjoyed a welcome career revival in the past few years… but her starring role here allows her to finally showcase her wild versatility.
In Deborah, Smart has a lead role worthy of her prodigious intellect and ferocious delivery.
Hacks is a biting, hilarious and insightful comedy laced with genuine pathos
Berman and Pulcini’s failure to generate suspense becomes problematic during a second half that settles into standard psycho-spouse thri...
Catherine spends the first half of the film feeling trapped in a roomy yet empty space, wanting more and frustrated that she’s not getti...
The pacing is exquisite, with every episode revealing just enough of Deb and Ava’s backstory to cast them repeatedly in a new light.
"Hacks" remains one of the most consummately funny shows on TV, defying the sophomore slump to uncover ever more trenchant truths about ambition, f...
The film would be in the general neighborhood of irresistible if not for the wonky mechanics of story and character that convey a conflicted i...
It indulges in all of its innate, nasty impulses, and then just keeps going… Get together with a group of the rowdiest genre freaks you can fi...
A solidly entertaining riff on classic comic-book themes, with a blockbuster polish and an indie-film spirit.
The HBO Max comedy is first and foremost a vehicle for [Jean Smart], one that starts off shakily but gets sturdier with each new half-hour.
Despite the star presence of Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg, this laugh-starved, buddy comedy is crushingly dim-witted and disposable.
Both Deborah and the show as a whole return in wonderfully acerbic form, with supporting characters providing great value.
Would it help if the jokes the two work on were stronger? Sure, but Hacks also talks a lot about how hard good joke-writing is. It gets everyt...
Still fun to watch but also not quite working at the level its fans have come to expect.
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Rather than interweaving domestic drama, supernatural mumbo-jumbo and campus naughtiness, Pulcini and Berman lurch from one scene to the next, squa...
As with the first season, the ice-cold, fire-warm heart and soul of Hacks lies in the relationship between Deborah and Ava.
[Things Heard & Seen] boasts a fantastic cast of actors who are always fascinating to watch even when the material itself is less so.
There is a flatness that feels apparent in every shot – and not just because the movie is filmed in bright, low contrast lighting.
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Throughout the six episodes I screened, the core of the show is Smart’s performance, which brings the perfect balance of steeliness and...
If good comedy needs emotional heft, this has it to spare, and still manages to be vicious at the same time.
Christopher McDonald is perfect as Marty…and Carl Clemons-Hopkins gives solidity to the questions of race and wealth that inevitably arise when&nbs...
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This is a big, brilliant, wholly original performance, with Smart constantly shifting emotional gears and deftly stealing every scene she&rsqu...
Seyfried and Norton are believable as the couple at its center, and Berman and Pulcini paint them into a world that’s beginning to crumb...
Having laid the groundwork for Deborah and Ava to become actual friends, Hacks is free to delve into more internal sources of conflict, which in tu...
"Hacks" always knows who’s in the right, especially when it’s both of them. Through six episodes, there’s a comforting ease...
The lack of epiphanies, life lessons, and intergenerational bonding is what makes the second season work so well. The show isn’t following the traj...
Hacks understands that arriving at this point of artistic and professional self-actualization is fraught, especially for women.
Set your worries aside because Hacks has done it again. Season 2 leans into its established strengths while recognizing new opportunities.
It’s a fast, freaky ride. Strap on those oxygen masks; it’s about to, quite literally, go down…
Hacks is a tart, tightly done series, with barely a moment wasted. It has so many tiers of tension and comedy, and yet it’s a...
Adapting Elizabeth Brundage’s novel All Things Cease to Appear (a better title), the co-directors craft a surprisingly unusual ghost sto...
It’s an emotional coup for both actors. We expect that level of commitment from Mr. Abraham. We’re coming to expect it from Ms. Seyfried.
A remarkably smart comedy, one that understands human behavior and how it’s warped by show business.
Hacks takes two very unlikable characters, mixes them together, and transmutes them into something truly irresistible. It’s a staggering feat...
A more self-assured show, even if its characters have never been less sure of themselves.
"Hacks" is exceedingly watchable in all its sun-bleached glory if you take it on its own terms: Not so much a comedy but a wry drama.
It’s all crushingly predictable, advancing along the expected lines without even the slightest hint of something extra or new.
All of these familiar beats might have found some tension to build on if every character trait and plot turn weren’t already so clumsily fore...
It is mordant. It is subtle. It is sweet. It understands how many ways there are for people to be coupled.
"Me Time" relies on raunchy gags and tired R-rated humor and never manages to find a chord of true humanity, let alone any chemistry betw...
[`Einbinder] has only a few small acting credits… But she’s confident and at ease and does a remarkable job of embodying a seemingly awf...
Watching and enjoying it is enough, but Smart and Einbinder make us want to sit with these two, Smart especially, as Deborah and Ava enrich each ot...
Me Time somehow squanders a solid premise, a stacked cast and a seemingly unlimited budget. It didn’t need to be anything great in this m...
Yes, episodes still feel overlong, but the stakes seem real again and the world genuinely terrifying, far more in keeping with the show’s Stephen K...
Ava and Deborah are the ultimate dysfunctional couple, bound together by their working relationship but also by the fact that looking at each other...
"Please stop with the ghost stuff," a character asks in Netflix misfire Things Heard & Seen, a request the film is conflicted about.
Hacks creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W Downs and Jen Statsky take a well-worn premise and elevate it through sharp and supple delivery. Gags are...
Hacks creates a world of characters and dialogue and situations you want to spend as much time with as possible.
The show excels in these small moments of discovery. And Smart, the reigning Meryl Streep of tough broad types, excels at absolutely everything.
In a movie where Hart projectile vomits, defecates on a bed and is cradled like a pet, his greatest indignity comes at the climax when he...
Me Time takes an interesting family dynamic and hides it under crass jokes and hackneyed stunts.
It’s very silly but very self-aware about it, which makes it very enjoyable for what it is.
It’s as if there were several ideas on the table, and the studio decided to use all of them at once, serving none of them properly.
Hacks in Season 2 has lost none of its acerbic charm, and Ms. Smart has lost none of her edge.
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Hacks is a sincere story about cynical people, which is a delicate balance to strike without betraying its characters.
Vivo himself has charm and a delightfully kinetic scamper to go with themes of love and loss.
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What the movie lacks in wit it makes up for with variety. There are masturbation jokes, porn jokes, excrement jokes, penis jokes, breast jokes, far...
It aspires to be a mystery but can’t wring any tension to fuel it. None of the superfluous plot and character threads can distract from...
This is one story corner I can’t wait to watch the team write its way out of.
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wow, this series stole my soul because of the wonderful las vegas atmosphere and comedy practice. waiting for season 2 Translated to English
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A specific gourmet series of stand-up and entertainment cuisine from the inside, from scriptwriters, bohemians and actually ostentatious elite layer, this is fat :) Translated to English
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It’s a shame when a potential pearl contains an overdose of tolerant themes. What stand-up comedians are silent about is how I would describe the content of the series. Sassy comedians, young (I didn’t like it) and older ones. conduct a dialogue between generations about everything in the world. Jean Smart shines both as a character and as an actress. Translated to English