Hacks Season-Premiere Recap: We Can’t Work It Out

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Here we are in the aftermath of Baby’s First Blackmail. How’s everyone doing? Mommy and Daddy are fighting. Despite coordinated outfits that would suggest a sort of spiritual team uniform — power blazers, jewel tones — the animosity 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 that sexual tension? (Just kidding...