Comedy’s favorite odd couple is going on a road trip with all their baggage.
With the Emmy-winning HBO Max comedy “Hacks” returning for its second season Thursday, stand-up comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and her protege, Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), have taken the show on the road as the former works out her comedy special, a desperate attempt to reinvent herself after leaving her Las Vegas residency. But hanging over them is Ava’s email, sent drunkenly to a TV producer with a laundry list of Deborah’s faults.
“Deborah’s feelings toward Ava are so multilayered. I need her, and I firmly have admitted to myself that I need her, because the stakes are so high for this to work, and if this doesn’t work I have nothing to go back to, which is intolerable for Deborah. I need her on that level,” Smart, 70, told the Daily News.
