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spacelessbian · 2 years

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One thing I liked about Hacks not about Ava/Deborah was how the show treated the director lady (Elaine? I think). Because at first it looked like she is gonna be a disaster - weird cooky lady who didn’t have any good directing credits for years? Little bit off-putting, quirky, slightly annoying ex-alcoholic? And then the thing with the unlucky hand shake? I was 100% sure she’s going to fuck up. And then she nailed it. Just like any man with the same characteristics would nail it in another show. I liked it a lot.

#hacks hbo #hacks #or maybe i'm reading too much into it #hacks season 2

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lovingume · 2 years

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Ava and Deborah - On the Rooftop, Hacks s02e08 💔❤️.

#ava x deborah #hacks #avorah #deborah vance #ava daniels #season finale #hacks hbo #hacks season 2 #jean smart #hannah einbinder

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lilolilyr · 1 year

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Morning After (the night on the roof)

Deborah was so much more than just a friend or girlfriend to her. A partner, without even adding the romantic sense of that word to their relationship. And now she was pushing Ava out of her life, leaving her to be as lonely and miserable as before she met her, except even more so because now she knew what she was missing, how much better it could be, so was it really surprising that she felt like drowning?

3k words, rated T, emotional h/c, no warnings

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sapphicscholar · 2 years

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Sometimes peak romance is looking utterly stunning on a rooftop, having a conversation that feels yanked out of the best kind of fanfic, and breaking everyone’s hearts (each other’s included) in the process

#hacks hbo #hacks season 2 #ava x deborah #won't post anything spoilery til the afternoon and still hidden under a cut in case

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shadedevi · 2 years

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#hacks s2 #hacks hbo #deborah vance #deborah x ava #ava daniels #hacks season 2

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lepetitchemin · 2 years

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oh my god would these two just fuck already

#hacks #hacks season 2 #hacks s2 #hacks hbo #ava x deborah #deborah x ava #deborah vance #ava daniels

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actualhumancryptid · 1 year

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I’m rewatching Hacks. And I just watched A Gig’s a Gig. And fuck me - there’s that moment where Ava is watching the late night pilot and Deborah is out fishing, and you ache for Deborah’s loss and what could have been.

And you, or at least I, suddenly become super certain that this show is special and it knows what it’s doing, what it is saying overall. That it has a plan.

I need to get up to season 2 again, and double check what I know I felt watching the new season for the first time. Because where did this go? And why did no one outside fandom notice the difference? (except one or two like this one that you had to really hunt out).

It makes me worry I imagined it. So let me put a pin in this and go on with the rewatch. And give those paid reviewers the benefit of the doubt. Season 2 got a 100% on rotten tomatoes. And yet on the ground I know people, outside of the fandom, who couldn’t make themselves finish the season.

Surely this disconnect is an interesting thing to examine?

#hacks #hacks hbo #hacks season 2 #I am just remembering why I loved this show so fiercely #I feel like Ava watching that unaired pilot

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rainespells · 2 years

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Hi hacks hive if anyone decides to gif this little scene tag me please I'm dying over here

#hacks hbo #hacks spoilers #hacks season 2 #avadeb #their looks here are soooooo

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lolaismyhero · 2 years

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Yes, say it louder Jen - it ain't no mother/daughter relationship. It's also more than a work one too but I'll take the win anyway😀

#hacks hbo #ava x deborah #hacks season 2 #jean smart #hannah einbinder

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nightsh6de · 2 years

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new season of hacks meets old trend…

did not expect to make myself sad with this but i lowkey did lol

also you’re seeing this before instagram so idk feel free to feel special 😌 s2 is already painful i cannot imagine how this’ll all end but i am terrified!!!!!

#hacks hbo #avadeb #hacks hive #ava daniels #deborah vance #jean smart #hannah einbinder #hacks season 2 #adult swim #tiktok trend

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boardchairman-blog · 2 years

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**Shots of the Episode**

Hacks (2021)

Season 2, Episode 4: “The Captain’s Wife” (2022) Director: Lucia Aniello Cinematographer: Adam Bricker

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lovingume · 2 years

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They’re so close to holding hands in this scene🥺❤️.

#jean smart #ava daniels #avorah #deborah vance #hacks #hannah einbinder #ava x deborah #hacks hbo #deborah x ava #holding hands #rooftop #scene #hacks season 2 #s02e08

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serothotin · 2 years

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Dammit I have to get this out

Watching Hacks S2E8 thinking about how Deborah never let anyone see her cry and I just wonder if the fond smile she gave Ava when she was firing her was partly composed of awe in how open Ava is with her emotions

#I haven’t been alright in ages #hacks hbo #hacks season 2 #ava x deborah

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sapphicscholar · 2 years

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I think I remember you saying you were going to write a meta post about the second season compared to the first. Did you ever end up writing that? I love reading your posts!

Thanks, anon! I did not! Real life kind of caught up to me haha and I haven't had the time to go back and watch the two in one go. That being said, the one thing that I've been circling around a lot, basically since the middle of S2 is that the two seasons feel generically different.

To get a little teacher-y for a hot second: what genre does for readers/viewers/consumers is to set up certain expectations about what's coming and how it will be delivered. Obviously those expectations can be refused or subverted--part of the fun of being a writer, after all--but it's kind of like setting yourself on a given course and trusting that the vague outlines will help your readers or viewers follow along with the story you want to tell. (Because, right, if you went into Romeo and Juliet thinking it was a romcom instead of a tragedy, you'd be pretty bummed when they both died. Or if you went into Modern Family thinking it was a documentary, you'd be confused.)

With season 1--both through the show and the after-the-fact commentary from critics and fans alike--we got set up to think a certain way about the kind of show it was and the kind of story it wanted to tell. A lot of fans and critics talked about it as a dramedy, which set expectations for tone, and praised the character-driven approach it took to narrative work, which set us up to assume that level of deep interiority would be sustained. I personally read it as, in many ways, a spin on a traditional künstlerroman (a story about an artist's growth to maturity)--in this version, it was a story about two artists growing into their own creative potential alongside and through the intervention of the other (the "we make each other better and funnier" ethos that we all loved).

Given what we got in season 1, we* as a viewership (*realizing we is not and never will speak as a unified whole) expected more of the same from season 2. We expected the writers to explore what it would mean to take this developing creative project out from the little insular bubble Ava and Deborah had built together and onto the road. We expected the personal-level betrayal of the email to have deep, resonating impacts across the whole season. We expected more glimpses into Deborah and Ava's interior lives that would explain some of those actions or choices that might otherwise seem discordant or inexplicable (or, to use the critics' language, make them deeply unlikeable).

Instead, season 2 (particularly the first chunk of episodes) shifted tone and genre on us. (There are plenty of moments and things I like in S2, but I've already written about them in my ep-by-ep posts a lot.)

A lot of critics have written about season 2 as a journey story, but I'd actually push back pretty hard on that generic classifications for reasons I won't get into for the sake of length and nerdiness haha! I think instead season 2 was more of a picaresque - deeply episodic storytelling where each episode may have built to a vague journey outline but whose ramifications were largely confined. Picaresques trade in interesting, often ever-changing locales; new, eccentric characters; and vignette style plots. They deal in laughs and (mis)adventures and aren't particularly concerned with character growth and deep interiority. Obviously we did see characters confronting their moments of failure, but there wasn't the same kind of protracted reckoning or repercussions I think many of us expected. Instead of the character-driven storytelling of S1, it felt like the tour bus was literally and figuratively driving the second season. The stops dictated the plot, and the plot drove the characters into new situations where they were largely reacting.

And the thing is? It could largely be thought of as a success on those terms. But that disjunction between what many of us expected and what the show gave us makes it feel like it fell short (outside of more specific critiques of individual moments or plots). And I think so many of us really loved the second half of the season because, in many ways, it shifted more and more back to something closer in mood and dynamic to season 1. It started falling back into the kind of storytelling we expected of it.

Anyway, I don't know if this is at all of interest to you, and apologies if not haha, but for what it's worth we can call this my season 2 overarching meta!

#ask me anything #hacks hbo #my meta #hacks season 2 #genre theory #not a tag i thought i'd end up using on tumblr dot com but here we are

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actualhumancryptid · 2 years

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Hacks season 2 sign on a Clifton Hill tram stop in Melbourne, Aus. Worlds colliding. It’s happening!

#hacks #hacks hbo #hacks season 2 #sooon

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spacelessbian · 2 years

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I feel like getting sued for breaking a NDA / suing someone for breaking a NDA is a perfect cute couple story.

#hacks #hacks season 2 #hacks hbo

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