They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but when it comes to the return of the Max Original comedy “Hacks,” that platitude is not the only reason why its third season is the best so far.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ava and Deborah’s relationship is strictly platonic — Deborah’s running jokes about Ava’s “huge” hands negate any romantic ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

Three years ago when Hacks premiered, my colleague Jason Tabrys observed how the Max series proved that the comedy generation gap is certainly not insurmountable. That central truth of the series ...

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Hacks season 4, episode 9. Hacks season 4, episode 9, "A Slippery Slope," is one of the most shocking and dramatic episodes of the Emmy-winning comedy series to date.

At the end of its second season, “Hacks” seemed to have written itself into a corner. On the heels of a hit special, veteran stand-up Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) fired Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), ...

The secret to becoming a long-running sitcom is to do the same thing, differently. Doing it better is a dream. With its third season, “Hacks” indicates that dreams may actually come true. At the same ...

Hacks is back for season 4 on Max, and it follows up on Ava’s shocking betrayal with another round of hilarious episodes rife with comedic conflict. The ending of Hacks season 3 delivered a bombshell ...

Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky's award-winning Max series pushes its central couple, Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart), to joyful — and unexpected — extremes. Ava and ...