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Explores a dark mentorship that forms between Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas comedian, and an entitled, outcast 25-year-old.
12 March 1959, Tollette, Arkansas, USA
7 September 1978, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
18 March 1981, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
15 April 1964, New York, New York, USA
29 September 1974, Alameda County, California, USA
15 July 1975, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
15 June 1955, Gary, Indiana, USA
8 January 1955, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
May 10, 2021
In Deborah, Smart has a lead role worthy of her prodigious intellect and ferocious delivery.
May 05, 2021
The show excels in these small moments of discovery. And Smart, the reigning Meryl Streep of tough broad types, excels at absolutely everything.
May 12, 2021
Would it help if the jokes the two work on were stronger? Sure, but Hacks also talks a lot about how hard good joke-writing is. It gets everything else right, so it deserves the extra time to figure that last part out.
May 10, 2021
A spectacular showcase for its leading ladies, and above all, a love letter to life in the comedy trenches.
May 11, 2021
A barbed comedy that also benefits from a potent core of vulnerability. It remains deeply human even at its most wonderfully absurd.
May 03, 2021
Smart and Einbinder have tremendous chemistry together.
