Hacks: Season 5

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HBO Max | Season Premiere Date: April 9, 2026

Summary: Deborah and Ava return home in the fifth and final season of the dark comedy series.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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100

The Daily Beast Laura Wheatman Hill

Apr 8, 2026

We can imagine a world in which the show will always go on, even though we’ve paused the TV and see there’s only five (beautiful, brilliant) minutes left in one of—if not the greatest—shows about comedy ever made. The final curtain does fall on Hacks, and the last moments are simultaneously surprising and perfectly suited to the show as a whole—a miracle for a series finale. While each episode offers up different iterations of everything wrong with Hollywood, Hacks never loses the love of the game. Read full review

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Matthew Creith

Apr 7, 2026

It’s a proper finale for a series that never stopped being funny, never punched below the belt, and always continued to evolve past its own perceived wokeness … a joke within a joke the show has consistently loved to highlight. The characters are all treated with respect right up until the very end, though the final episode grounds reality into a series hellbent on commenting on Hollywood’s flaws and great fortunes. Read full review

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Verne Gay

Apr 8, 2026

Funny, melancholy, flawless. Read full review

Collider Emily Bernard

Apr 7, 2026

Hacks takes a sharp left turn when you least expect it, and Ava and Deborah end up exactly where they are meant to be. Hacks' big, brave final season will make you laugh, cry, and appreciate the people who believed in you when you didn't believe in yourself. Read full review

TV Insider Matt Roush

Apr 7, 2026

Stay with the twists and turns, even the occasional groaners, for a satisfying finish, providing a fairy-tale happy ending for some and for others a bittersweet reckoning that whatever hurdles life throws at you, nothing is as important as friendship — and perfecting the next joke. Read full review

The Travers Take Peter Travers

Apr 10, 2026

The pain that lies simmering under a joke has rarely been as powerfully conveyed as it is by Jean Smart in a farewell to her career-defining role as a comedy diva in which she and costar Hannah Einbinder sweeten their snark with genuine mutual affection Read full review

Angie Han

Apr 7, 2026

There are enough big names here to make the season feel like a well-earned celebration of its place in pop culture. But ironically for a season that spends so much of its time concerned with the question of legacy, Hacks stumbles at crafting its own. In elevating its brighter, softer elements at the expense of its darker, sharper edges, it becomes a sugarcoated obituary version of itself. Read full review

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- Season 5 Overview
  Air Date: April 9, 2026
- No episode information is currently available for this season
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