Will Thorne Staff WriterThe first meeting between caustic comedy doyenne Deborah (Jean Smart) and snarky Twitter-infamous writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) in “Hacks” doesn’t exactly go well.Ava storms out after an exchange of withering putdowns, before Deborah screeches after her and offers her a job, closing the first chapter of the new HBO Max comedy and launching a complex mentor-mentee dynamic.“Hacks” at its heart is about mentorship, a theme it has in common with a good number of its fellow comedy series nominees — namely Netflix’s “Cobra Kai,” Hulu’s “Pen15” and of course Apple TV Plus’ “Ted Lasso.”Deborah and Ava simply don’t understand each other at the beginning of the series.
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