'Hacks'
Yes, it's another sitcom about the trials and tribulations of stand-up comedy. But "Hacks" is chiefly about self-serving people paying the price for their ambitions. That theme is even more evident in the second season, which finds veteran comic Deborah Vance (Emmy winner Jean Smart) hitting the road with new material, dragging along Ava (Hannah Einbinder), a guilt-ridden assistant with ego issues of her own. The new episodes have their fair share of laughs, especially when Laurie Metcalf pops in to play a militant tour manager, but it's the soul-baring conversations between Smart and Einbinder that stick with you long after the punchlines. Thursday, HBO Max
'Anything Goes'
