'Hacks' Season 5 Review: HBO's Best Comedy of the Last 5 Years Checks All the Right Boxes With Its Ending

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All good things must come to an end. When it was recently confirmed that Season 5 of HBO's hit comedy Hacks would be its last, it felt right. For four seasons, co-creators Jen Statsky, Lucia Aniello, and Paul W. Downs delivered a carefully crafted comedy series that never grew stale, jumped the shark, or, most importantly, stopped being funny. In fact, it got funnier — and even more heartfelt — as legendary stand-up comedian Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and comedy writer Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) evolved brilliantly both personally and professionally, coming quite a long way from that whip-smart, fast-paced, insult exchange that was their meet-cute back in the first episode.

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