Director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade won critical acclaim for his 2005 documentary “The Staircase”, chronicling the trial of novelist Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife in 2001.
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The second season of “Hacks” is right around the corner, and HBO Max has just dropped a wild new trailer.
The critically acclaimed, Emmy-winning comedy series finds has-been comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and millennial comedy writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) hitting the road so Deborah can workshop a new act that she hopes will put her back on top after suffering the indignity of being fired from the lucrative casino gig she’s headlined for 30 years..
Among the new characters featured in the trailer are Alice (“but everybody calls me Weed”), Deborah’s new tour manager, played by “The Conners” star Laurie Metcalf.
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The trailer also sees Deborah having cold feet about attempting a risky comeback.
“Honestly, I should have retired and gone out on top,” Deborah muses.
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“Back in Vegas, you were on top,” counters Ava. “But I think that was just a hill. And now you’re climbing a mountain.
“Hacks” won a mammoth 16 awards for its debut season, including three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Critics’ Choice Award, two Golden Globes and a Screen Actors Guild Award.
Season 2 of “Hacks” premieres on May 12.
Director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade won critical acclaim for his 2005 documentary “The Staircase”, chronicling the trial of novelist Michael Peterson, accused of murdering his wife in 2001.
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Puck’s Dylan Byers.The former Fox News journalist began hosting the interview show at the launch of CNN+, before the streaming service was shut down 30 days after it launched by parent company Warner Bros. Discovery.After a nearly two-decade run at Fox News, Wallace left the network in December 2021 for a job at CNN, where he was then positioned as an anchor for CNN+.Byers reports that in addition to hosting his show on HBO Max, Wallace will continue to do work for CNN as new CNN head Chris Licht begins to sort out where to deploy talent at the networks under the Warner Bros.
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Hacks,” which premieres on the streamer May 12 with two episodes, followed by two more each week until June 2. Picking up after stand-up legend Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) lost her Vegas residency, she and young comedian Ava (Hannah Einbinder) travel across the country to workshop her new act.Additional cast includes Carl Clemons-Hopkins, Jane Adams, Christopher McDonald, Kaitlin Olson, Paul W. Downs, Poppy Liu, Rose Abdoo, Mark Indelicato, Meg Stalter, Angela E.
If you watched the first season of the Emmy-winning and critically-acclaimed HBO Max comedy series “Hacks”—and you probably should if you didn’t, it’s a great conflict between two generations of comedians—you probably remember that things ended on a cliffhanger. The dark mentorship between legendary Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her young, entitled writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) is still very much touch and go.
is back with season 2. The HBO Max series starring Jean Smart is set to premiere almost exactly one year later, on May 12, 2022.
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Can you believe it’s already been a year since the HBO Max series Hacks premiered?!