Welcome to another bonus pod here on Rich Text. As always, we are so very grateful to you, our paying subscribers, for keeping this project afloat!
Today we are discussing “Hacks,” an HBO Max series starring Jean Smart as Deborah Vance, a veteran comic in the stylings of Joan Rivers who has come to be seen as a bit of a hack, and Ava, played by Hannah Einbeinder, a 25-year-old upstart comedic writer who has been “cancelled” for a tasteless joke. The two are thrown together by their mutual agent, and growth, arguments and a whole lot of comedy writing ensues. We get into the characters in “Hacks,” and the generational divides and gender issues explored.
Happy listening and happy (almost) weekend!
We’ve been reading…
The heart-wrenching and infuriating transcript of Britney Spears’ court testimony. -Emma
We’ve been listening to…
Lately I’ve been digging more into the back catalog of Citations Needed, a leftist media crit podcast hosted by Nima Shirazi and Adam Johnson, and I really reco…
