Is HacksOnHBOMax bad? McHenryJD, nwquah, and kvanaren debate the show's virtues and vices
Photo: Karen Ballard/HBO Max Occasionally, it is necessary to convene a conversation between Vulture writers to discuss an important and timely issue in the culture. This time, Jackson McHenry, Nicholas Quah, and Kathryn VanArendonk debate the virtues and vices of Hacks.
KVA: Yes, there are two separate threads here. One is less a criticism of Hacks than it is frustration with the heights of its praise. When the general expectation for a show is that it’s a nice, fun time, it feels downright shitty to say, “No! Your fun time is wrong!” But when a show gets into Emmys territory and thinkpieces-about-its-importance territory, the impulse to pump the brakes seems more reasonable.
NQ: Well, let’s be clear. This isn’t a Joan River biopic , and I don’t read the show as a critical knife intent on dissecting the historical injustices of the comedy world and Hollywood.
I found myself intensely tripped up on one tiny scene where Deborah takes a chainsaw to a treehouse, improbably bringing the whole thing down with nary a scratch to herself. Yes, it’s a silly, impossible capper. But it made me realize I don’t understand who Deborah is supposed to be.
NQ: Yeah, I agree that the comedic tone is all over the place, though I tend to connect that with Jen Statsky, Downs, and Lucia Aniello’s Broad City lineage. There’s a manic, patchworked, not-everything-fits-together nature to that show that I see flowing into Hacks, and as a result, I was able to exercise a take-it-or-leave-it approach to the various comedy plates they were spinning.
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