Hacks season 5: everything we know about the multi-Emmy winning HBO Max comedy's final season

Jean Smart in HBO Max's Hacks.

Hacks season 5: key information

- Season 5 was confirmed by HBO on May 27, 2025
- At the Emmy awards in September 2025, Hannan Einbinder mentioned that it would be the final series ever of the show: “Knowing it’s the last season is really bittersweet”
- The series showrunners Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky haven’t confirmed it definitively, but have said they’re “writing towards it ending in the fifth series” but also added: “we shall see”
- HBO CEO Casey Bloys said of the show ending in season 5: “We’ve had conversations about it. Ultimately, it will be their [the showrunners’] decision.”
- Filming of season 5 is set to begin in September 2025
- Season 5 will see a defiant Deborah Vance and Ava return to America from Singapore, where she’ll try to “rewrite her legacy"

For the fourth year in a row, Hacks cleaned up at the annual Emmy awards – but this time, as well as Jean Smart (who plays sassy comedienne, Deborah Vance) winning Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for the fourth time, Hannah Einbinder (who plays Deborah’s awkward millennial co-writer) won her first ever Emmy for her role in the show.