How ‘Hacks’ Production Designer Created Deborah Vance’s Epic Mansion

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The picture of Las Vegas at the forefront of a person’s mind is filled with casinos and luxury hotels, but for HBO Max’s Hacks, production designer Jonathan Carlos wanted to show a more varied image of what Las Vegas is like. He was in charge of recreating the style and feeling of different parts of Las Vegas while shooting in California.

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Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticWhat is it like to take on the role of a standup comic? For all that she seems fearless on HBO Max’s “Hacks,” Jean Smart felt nerves.In Variety’s Actors on Actors TV issue, Smart spoke to “Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang — a comic in real life, unlike Smart’s fictional joke-slinger — about what it took to bring the Joan Rivers-esque comedian Deborah Vance to life.“I always thought it would be fun to be a standup comic, but I always also thought it would be

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic“Hacks” is as pure a two-hander as I’ve seen on television in recent years — a comedy buoyed by the prickly, slow-to-develop relationship between two characters with utterly different approaches to comedy, but similar stumbling blocks.

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SPOILER ALERT - Stop reading now if you don’t want to know what happened in the season one finale of Hacks!

a second season, a decision that co-showrunner and executive producer Lucia Aniello said the creators kind of “forced” onto HBO. By the end of Season 1’s final episode, Deborah (Jean Smart) is gearing up for a nationwide tour of a new hourlong stand-up routine, and she’s bringing her begrudging assistant Ava (Hannah Einbinder) along with her.

Following its premiere on HBO Max in May, Hacks became a runaway hit, generating awards buzz and swiftly landing a Season 2 renewal. While the comedic two-hander’s success hinged on chemistry between its stars Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, it also has a great deal to do with the sharp scripts penned by series creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor“In the Heights” production designer Nelson Coates had an important task from Lin-Manuel Miranda: The bodegas for the film adaptation of the stage show needed to be located east of Broadway, “because that was a historic Puerto Rican, Dominican and Cuban neighborhood.”Anything west of that would be predominantly Irish, Russian or Jewish. The last thing director Jon M.

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Ahead of its season finale on Thursday, HBO Max has renewed breakout comedy “Hacks” for a second season.The series stars Jean Smart as Las Vegas comedian Deborah Vance and Hannah Einbinder as Ava, a 25-year old struggling comedy writer who works for the acerbic Vance. The series is from creators Paul W.

HBO Max has announced that the acclaimed new series Hacks has been renewed for a second season!