Apparently I've never posted about it before, but for the past few years, HBO's Hacks has been among my favorite shows.
The basic premise is that Ava (Hannah Einbinder), an up-and-coming comedy writer, seems to have a career on the slide when her agent, Jimmy (Paul W. Downs) teams her with his top client, Deborah Vance (Jean Smart), a legendary stand-up comedian, now in her 70's. Deborah is fabulously wealthy from her long and lucrative stand-up career with side-businesses like a line of goods on QVC. She has a team surrounding her that is probably insulating her a bit from dealing with any unpleasantness, a daughter in her 40's, DJ (Kaitlin Olson), who is erratic at best - and has kind of seen and done it all.
