Emmys: ‘Hacks’ Breaks Comedy Series Record In Final Season; Fellow Departing Shows ‘Euphoria’, ‘Stranger Things’ & ‘The Boys’ Also Get Nominations

HBO Max’s Hacks is wrapping its Emmy run with a big showing, landing 24 nominations for its fifth and final season, the most ever for a comedy series in a single year. That eclipses the previous ...

‘Hacks’ Shatters ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Emmy Record for Most Nominations for a Comedy’s Final Season

Hacks” is going out on top. The critically acclaimed HBO Max comedy about a fading Las Vegas legend and the millennial writer who brought her career back to life garnered 24 Emmy nominations for its ...

Shaw Festival review: Funny Girl delivers the laughs to fill a post-Hacks void

Though it’s true that Holmes’s Funny Girl could be more biting in its unpacking of Brice’s life and legacy, the Shaw Festival’s production is one of the company’s more beguiling musicals in recent ...
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 ...
Deadline.com

Hannah Einbinder On Why The “Incredibly Heavy” Finale Of ‘Hacks’ Felt “Genuinely Real” — Plus, Easing Back Into Stand-Up: “I Feel So F*cking Lucky”

SPOILERS: This post contains details about the Hacks series finale As Hacks fans mourn the end of the HBO Max show’s five-season run, nobody has been as deeply affected by the show as star Hannah ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
USA Today

When is the 'Hacks' finale? Date, time, how to watch

Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) are about to take their final bow as the curtain draws on HBO Max's "Hacks," which is ending after an acclaimed five-season run. The final ...
The Indianapolis Star

Indy 500 fans offer hacks on how to have fun at race and avoid traffic

(This story was originally published in 2025. We are republishing a version of it as part of our Indy 500 coverage.) How to walk on the iconic Yard of Bricks at the start line at Indianapolis Motor ...