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‘Will & Grace’ Creators Max Mutchnick & David Kohan Recall First Meeting With James Burrows In Poignant & Funny Eulogy At TV Director’s Funeral

Throughout his legendary, 50-year career, James Burrows, who died on Friday at the age of 85, has worked on many iconic shows, from Taxi to Friends and Frasier to The Big Bang Theory. But he is most ...
NOLA.com

Stephanie Grace: Could the Republican Senate race be veering off script?

As Louisiana’s dreary election for U.S. Senate lumbers on, U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow remains the favorite. That would be the case with anyone who finished within a handful of points of winning a primary ...
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 ...
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 ...
IndieWire

Three Sequences in the ‘Hacks’ Finale Define Its Great Cinematography

Cinematographer Adam Bricker tells IndieWire about the joys of getting to always have Paris, and also five seasons of an HBO series. Getting to sculpt the show for five seasons with a core group of ...
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 ...
Variety

The Series Finale of ‘Hacks’ Showed What the Rest of Season 5 Was Missing

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from the series finale of “Hacks,” now streaming on HBO Max. In the closing minutes of “Hacks,” Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder ...
TheWrap

‘Hacks’ Creators Explain Series Finale’s Big Fakeout: ‘We Always Knew This Was the Ending’

Note: This story contains spoilers from “Hacks” Season 5, Episode 10. Deborah Vance was never going to die. That may be a shock to “Hacks” fans who have seen the series finale to HBO Max’s Emmys ...
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‘Hacks’ ends after 5 seasons with surprising twist to Deborah Vance’s fate

Standing ovation for the “Hacks” series finale. HBO’s Emmy Award-winning comedy series ended after five seasons Thursday night and pulled a major switcheroo with Deborah Vance’s (Jean Smart) fate.
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 ...
The New York Times

‘Hacks’ Was Always a Love Story

In its finale, this comedy about comedy circled back to the romance of creative partnership and the saving power of laughs. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief television critic of The ...