Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticOn her new show “Hacks,” Jean Smart plays a woman who has a difficult time adapting to a new era in the entertainment industry.
It may be the first TV role this unbound and thrilling performer has taken that feels like a stretch.After all, Smart — one of CBS’ “Designing Women” in the 1980s and now a prestige-TV favorite on “Fargo” and “Watchmen” — seems endlessly inquisitive about where her talent can take her.
Gifted with exceptional timing and Sahara-dry delivery, Smart is aptly named; there’s a roving intelligence to her line readings, a sense that she’s finding levels of irony and shrewd wit even within the most elegant of scripts.
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