They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but when it comes to the return of the Max Original comedy “Hacks,” that platitude is not the only reason why its third season is the best so far.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ava and Deborah’s relationship is strictly platonic — Deborah’s running jokes about Ava’s “huge” hands negate any romantic ...

Taylor Gates is an Indiana native who earned her BFA in Creative Writing from the University of Evansville. She fell in love with entertainment by watching shows about chaotic families like Full House ...

Three years ago when Hacks premiered, my colleague Jason Tabrys observed how the Max series proved that the comedy generation gap is certainly not insurmountable. That central truth of the series ...

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for Hacks season 4, episode 3. Hacks season 4, episode 3, "What Happens in Vegas", brings the celebrated comedy series back to Deborah Vance's stomping grounds as her heated ...

At the end of its second season, “Hacks” seemed to have written itself into a corner. On the heels of a hit special, veteran stand-up Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) fired Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), ...

After one of the greatest twists — and cruelest cliffhangers — of all time, Hacks Season 4 is here, meaning we finally get to see the fallout of Ava (Hannah Einbinder) turning the tables and ...

The secret to becoming a long-running sitcom is to do the same thing, differently. Doing it better is a dream. With its third season, “Hacks” indicates that dreams may actually come true. At the same ...

Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky's award-winning Max series pushes its central couple, Ava (Hannah Einbinder) and Deborah (Jean Smart), to joyful — and unexpected — extremes. Ava and ...