eWeek

The Death of Prompt Hacks: The New Rules for Getting Better AI Answers

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...
The New York Times

I Just Realized Why I Liked ‘Hacks’ So Much

How did you meet your closest friends? I just spent a weekend in Orange Beach, Ala., with the same group of friends that I met in August 1987, on my first day of college. And what bound us together?
Variety

How the ‘Hacks’ Finale Managed to Shoot in the Louvre After Last Year’s Heist Made It Seemingly Impossible

The series finale of “Hacks” ends with a shot of Deborah and Ava walking down the Las Vegas strip, with big smiles as they plan a new comedy special. But in real life, the final scene filmed for the ...
Us Weekly

Does Deborah Vance Die in ‘Hacks’? What Happens in the HBO Show’s Series Finale

Hacks came to an end after five epic seasons — and the series finale was anything but predictable. “I want to go out on top,” Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) told Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) in the ...
Salon

“Hacks” finale is a moving tribute to comedy’s power to keep going

Comedy loves a good callback. The fifth and final season of “Hacks” contains some outstanding nods to triumphs that Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) savored together in ...
The Hollywood Reporter

‘Hacks’ Goes Out on Its Own Terms

In its audacious series finale, the comedy series chose silence, grief, and a one-liner over a tidy sendoff — and mostly stuck the landing. By Kevin Dolak [This story contains spoilers from the series ...
The New Yorker

“Hacks” Gave Us an Odd Couple for the Ages

No matter what you tell me, I refuse to believe that Deborah Vance did not exist before 2021. That was the year that “Hacks” premièred, on HBO Max, introducing the world to Deborah, a fictitious ...
Los Angeles Times

Deborah and Ava aren’t done: ‘Hacks’ delivers a fairy-tale TV finale

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IndieWire

‘Hacks’ Co-Creator Explains Why the Finale’s Surprise Storyline Was Its Logical Conclusion

The way “Hacks” would ultimately end hasn’t changed since the series was pitched seven years ago, Lucia Aniello told IndieWire, but the decision to make Season 5 the last was debated late in the ...
collider

'Hacks' Was Always Going To End This Way for Ava and Deborah

Co-creators Jen Statsky and Lucia Aniello break down the intensely emotional ending of one of HBO's best comedies. Emily Bernard has worn many hats over 5 years with Collider, including Features ...
Vanity Fair

In the Hacks Series Finale, Deborah Gave Ava “the Ultimate Declaration of Love”

Hacks ended the way it began: with a trio of comedy writers brainstorming on a quaint street in the City of Lights. “We wrote the pilot while staying in an apartment in Paris,” says Lucia Aniello, who ...