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After a 10-month delay, due to last summer’s Hollywood strikes and Jean Smart‘s health crisis, “Hacks” finally returns with Season 3 this week.
The new season will premiere on Thursday, May 2 with two episodes on Max. The nine-episode season will continue with two episodes each week, up until the season finale on May 30.
The new episodes kicks off after Season 2’s cliffhanger of an ending, which saw veteran stand-up Deborah Vance (Smart) fire Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder), the young writer whose perspective helped push Deborah out of a yearslong creative rut.
People are like, ‘It felt like it could have been the end,’” co-creator Jen Statsky told Variety last month. “And you’re like,…
