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Hacks Stopped Being About Comedy


And became a better but more familiar show.

While most shows about Hollywood careers focus on the mess and absurdity of putting on a show-within-a-show, Hacks was about writing and the difference between art and craven commercialism as it applied to one person’s presentation of their own life story. They wrestled constantly over whether it was better to aim for a broad audience or to embrace material with a niche target, and whether people would accept Deborah telling more personal, darker jokes about herself and her history after years of her safe casino-crowd shtick. To underline the point, this season introduces a social media editor whose entire job is to show up at the beginnings and ends of scenes, thrust a phone on a selfie stick into Deborah’s face, and say things like, “While I have you, we just need to wish Dakota Fanning a happy birthday.” Everyone loathes him.

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