Hacks Will End With Season 5, Says Hannah Einbinder

One of Hacks' leading ladies just dropped some major news on the Emmys red carpet: The HBO Max comedy will end with its forthcoming fifth season.

"I think it will feel different," Hannah Einbinder told E! host Heather McMahan ahead of the big ceremony. "We're going to start [filming] next week, and knowing it's the last season is really bittersweet. But I think it's right, you know? I think it's nice to do something as many times as it should be done. Not overstay your welcome. Rip it and do it and laugh and cry." (HBO Max has confirmed Hacks' final season news for TVLine.)

Hacks was renewed for Season 5 back in May, just two days before its Season 4 finale hit the streamer. Creators Jen Statsky, Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs previously said they had a five-season story to tell, but stopped short when asked whether Season 5 would be the show's last.

"I think the only comment is that we're writing right now, and if you look at the history of the show, our network has been so wonderful in terms of being amenable to the creative and being creative first," Statsky told TVLine in May. "We know where the series ends, but along the way, things have changed, things have been added, things have been subtracted. We're just at this point, listening and figuring out and really doing gut checks on where we want the story to go. That's a really long non-answer, but the truth is is that we do let the story and the characters tell us, and so we're still figuring out how much more there is to tell."

Added Downs at the time: "We want to give everybody there due, too, and so to wrap your arms around that and to wrap things up in a really satisfying way, which I think we've been supported enough that we're going to get to do that. You can only do so many episodes in a year, so we just have to see. I'm not sure."

In the Season 4 finale (which dropped May 29), Ava received quite the shock after waking up one morning to find that TMZ posted Deborah's obituary. Deborah was not, in fact, dead, but the terrible obit's claim — that Deborah killed the Late Night franchise — was more than enough to shock the comic out of her funk. She refused to let that be her legacy, and with that, told Ava that they had some rewriting to do.

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