Spoiler Alert! This article contains spoilers for all three seasons of HacksOver the course of its first three seasons, Hacks has delivered some truly great episodes, from the hilarious original pilot to the jaw-dropping season 3 finale. Created by Broad Citys Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky, Hacks stars Jean Smart as legendary stand-up comic Deborah Vance and Hannah Einbinder as Ava Daniels, the down-on-her-luck millennial writer Deborah hires to drag her act into the 21st century. Throughout the shows three seasons, Deborah and Ava have charted a complicated love-hate relationship with plenty of ups and downs.