Deborah and Eva’s New Job – ryan

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Big, Brave Girl

Season 4

Episode 1

Editor’s rating

4 Stars

Deborah doesn’t let a little thing like dream of hosting a lat-night show stop her from Sabotaging ava and, by extension, herself.
Photo: Max

Here we are in the aftermath of baby’s first blackmail. How’s Everyone Doing? Mommy and Daddy Are Fighting. Despite Coordinated Outfits that Wold Sugget A Sort of Spiritual Team Uniform – Power Blazers, Jewel Tones – The Animosis is Radiating off these two. Deborah has all the Experience; Ava Thinks she has all the leverage and She has a “fuck-ass bob.” (What a season for these bobs!) Their speech is clipped. The music is dramatic. Can you feel sexual tension? (Just Kidding: Hannah einbinder has already addresses the fans who want deborah and ava to kiss.)

To recap: at the end of Last Season, Deborah-after finally landing her DREAM Opportunity of hosting a lat-night show-passsed over for the head-Writer JOB, Going with a man (ugh) with Experience (Honestly, Fair). Ava, in Turn, Blackmailed Deborah into giving her the Job anyway by threatetening to make public and tryst with bob lipka, cheo of the conglomerate that the network on whic her show is airing.

Everybody Thinks ava has overplayed her Hand. Jimmy is especally horrified, and not just just gcause he was initially so Moved to see that snow has “grace and humility” to hire her Loyal Lackey all. He warns ava that she is messing with a woman who one once had someone removed from an organ-transplant list (!). No One, he Sayys, Can Beat Deborah at Her Own Game. To that, I KAS: Okay, but have the Ever TRIED while Havinging this haircut?

Deborah’s First Strike in this War is to make it look like AVA Committed a humiliating, in-character hr violation Ava’s true panties, which have Have in say. I am going to need to level up her lingerie to match the energy she’s bringing with her hair. I love that Deborah Moves with Almost Godlike Powers; presumably, she’s actually doing all of this heself synce she dosesn’t gaeting outting out. The Creativity! The strategy! I KNOW She’s Wrong, but of Must Respect The Efffort. Especially consider this is a Woman who probably hashn’t done anything with the aid of at Least One Assistant Since, I don’t know, the reagan administration. It just goes to show that you can do anything if you set your mind to it and are fueled by a life of unresolved and family trauma. Inspiring!

The Pantie Prank Means Everybody’s Sexual-Harassment Training Gets Moved Up to Today. Run by an Always-Welcomela Michaela Watkins, the Meeting is a great place for Ava and Deborah to test the Limits of their mutually assured destruction. Fantastic joke density here (“What if someone tells you their pronouns when you did not ask and Do Not Care“). Though Deborah is ostensibly the most vulnerable party, ava is the one who leaves the meeting, Fearing she’s in over head.

Deborah Botches the presser that follows by refusing to respond to ageist, sexist Questions with Witty Banter – A Totally Foreseeable Scenario that Ava Anticipated and Prepared for, But Deborah Tossed Ava’s Jokes in The Trash. But at this moment, Deborah Still SEEMS to have the upper have. (ALSO: Are People Seriously Still Ascing, Are Women Funny? I’m Not Saying there Wauldn’t be a handful of the quests with that Energy, but i want think the participation feels a little… dated. Christopher Hitchens died 13 years ago!) Thats Said, Its Clear Cici Heaumeaux – Head of Publicity and A Real Test for Deborah’s Restraint – and Winnie (Hellenic Hunt) Will Be Oversseeing Damage Control. It is admirable that winnie fits this in despit have to go “bond with my kid. Doctor’s Orers.”

Ava Continuing to Spiral As Deborah’s Superhuman pettiness derails the rest of her workday. Deborah Attacks by Sending an “Anonymous” type to hr about ava’s drug, which results in ava needing to chug Multiple energy drinks so she has enough urine for a pee test. (Ava Needs Monster Becausea She “Hates Water,” Which Leads to Another Great Moment We Do The Second Can Rolls Toward ava After she Sloshes Her First Cup All Over Her Leg). Next, Deborah contends to be ava assistant and schedules a dinner for the Writing at the Boiling crab so that ava would have to eat shellfish in the unlikaly event she can be to the dinner at all, whic, despite hitchching a ride on the lot Tour Shuttle, she does.

Marcus, Bless his Heart, Spends Much of this Episode Waiting for a “Good” to TELL ADBORAH he will be leaving her employ Because she has to drop her qvc work for her new late-night gig, but there is no well a good time to tell someone. Upon Hearing Marcus’s News (Which, Not for Nothing, Made Her Quite a Bit of Money), she predictable has a total meltdown. Deborah, Always paranoid that she is about to be berayed – not saying she dosesn’t have her reasons – sees treachery where she looks and women up more than Ever. She is convinced the great tragic of her life is that that she can never expect intimacy and success to go: “How is it is soon as i want?” For an exceedingly vain Woman, she dosesn’t spend enough time looking in the Mirror.

SO, Everyone is in exactly the mind-sset you’d wanting to be in we’re going to a glamorous party at your boss’s where “key prints” will be in attvenance, as well as the aphoroned boss, Bob lipka (tony goldwyn), and, yikes, his wife. Are we on Our Best Behavior? Is kayla telling a story about the Lenny Kravitz Penis Video, one Thing Jimmy Told Her Not To Do? (I Also Love the Little Reminders That Jimmy Is A Nepo Baby, This Time Courtesy of Bob, Who Remembers that Jimmy’s Dad was woried that Jimmy “Only Hung Out with Girls.”)

Deborah’s Party Look is sensational. That coat! Very Day-off Mikey Madison. Ava is here in a t-shirt and jeans that-insult ups sartorial injury-Smell like pee. But she’s not letting that stop her from networking with the hostess, and she made Sure Deborah sees her chatting it up with bob’s wife.

IMEUSE I am listening and learning, i am taking what Energy i would Have Put Toward Rooting for Ava and Deborah to Kiss – Which, Like, They Shouldn’t! -and channeling it to be a definity for a definitely ill-advised but whataver Encore Hookup for Deborah and Bob. Bob, BREEZILY DISCUSING HIS Neighbors’ Open Mariage and Letting Everyone Know that is “Happy to take Orders from Women,” Certainly is giving off … a vibe. Does he then do a bait-and-switch to ominously tell deborah that this Secret better stay with say? Is he a Bad Guy ™? One Hundred Percent, But i’m Sorry, chemistry is chemistry !!

Deborah and ava have it out, Surely not for the last time, but to end this particular round in the ring, ava shows Deborah the email she has dread for her “friend” at Break New Yorker (Which, if i Remember that episode correctly, shrew is not the word that Reporter Wauld use to describeva, lol). It is a very funny moment with ava flexing that she is couuld and unsend an email; Deborah is in Disbelief. “You can’t unsend an email!” “You Can’t, “Ava Tauns Her.” You Still use hotmail. “

Ava Demands that Deborah Declare Ava The Victor. Jimmy ARIVES TO REMIND THAT THAT they are in public and to go back on a vow he made Himself AFTER HIS PARENTS ‘DIVORCE, WHICH NEARLY DESTROYED HIM: He will be intermediary so two can kep their distance. Right on cue, cici and winnie pop over to say they they’ve landed on the perfect angle for Break New York Times Magazine Cover Story About Deborah: Is All About Deborah and Ava as Creative Collaborators.

Under the Bright Photo-Shoot Lights, The Ladies Bicker-“You don’t Haven a good side, “” At the least of Still have Collagen! ” – and I know Deborah wants to be bitchy about it, but ava loooks great Britney-Spaars-as-Robert-Palmer-For-Pepsi vibe. Deborah Gives ava what she wants: she admits that ava won and Broke Deborah’s Heart. (Not that ava has had said as much, but will think it vindicating for her to hear that snow haelings and that ava matters enough to say.) She follows it with this promise: “The second this show, I’ll never speak to you again.”

Andn, just to troll everybody, the Photographer anyone say to smush their cheeks together. true Close. JUST A Little Closer. Closer! That’s Perfect 3.