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Hacks Season-Finale Recap: Get Out of Town
Deborah and Ava have effectively killed late night, so it’s time to leave the country, I guess.
Since the late-prestige-TV era — let’s say the 2010s — it seems the once-subversive but now-typical model is for all the big stuff to happen in the second-to-last episode of the season, and for the actual finale to be a quieter, more meditative stretch of story. Instead, we get this kind of Lost in Translation– esque jaunt, which gives us some beautiful images but mostly feels like what it represents for Deborah: a lot of treading water and waiting around for the action to resume. Ava happily pops her sleeping aid of choice — “Benzo use is highly correlated with dementia, but that’s a tomorrow problem” — and, as she blabs about all the relaxing they’re going to do, Deborah, clearly, is spiraling.
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