Hacks
There Will Be Blood
TV Flash files “There Will Be Blood” as a desk essential hour — Hacks (2021–) on Max, season 2, episode 1, aired 2022-05-12, 33 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 11 of 47 in the Hacks guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 2022-05-12 (33 min). The listed hour before it is “I Think She Will” (S01E10). Next is “Quid Pro Quo” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “There Will Be Blood”. Season-two blood-sport launch: the partnership surviving its first year as Hollywood half-hour with actual teeth, not a warm reunion special.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Deborah eagerly anticipates trying out her new material on the road, while Ava dreads the fallout of an explosive email.
Viewer FAQ
Where does There Will Be Blood sit in the Hacks guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 11 of 47 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did Hacks S02E01 air?
There Will Be Blood aired 2022-05-12 and is listed at 33 minutes.
Where should I start?
Season one, when Deborah hires Ava. The mentor-monster bond is the engine; later seasons deepen it through industry upheavals rather than replacing the pair.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch Jean Smart's career-redefining comic monster opposite Hannah Einbinder in Max's flagship showbiz satire. A legendary Vegas comic hires a canceled young writer; punchlines are the love language. Best when you want Hollywood half-hours with teeth and a writing staff that knows the mic.
Fading Vegas comedy icon Deborah Vance hires canceled young writer Ava, and suddenly the old network night has a new two-hander: punchlines as love language, knives out, mutual reinvention. Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky's Max series premiered May 13, 2021, and Jean Smart's late-career supremacy became inseparable from Deborah. Hannah Einbinder matches her. Carl Clemons-Hopkins orbits the workplace. Showbiz cruelty is the office; respect is the long game. On the palate: cigarette haze and perfect…
Filed against
- Jean Smart as Deborah Vance
Jean Smart’s Charlene Frazier gave Designing Women its sugared drawl, then Watchmen, Hacks, and Mare of Easttown proved the 1980s catalog comic had a second, third, and fourth act. TV Flash files her as the long game: Atlanta living-room…
- Hannah Einbinder as Ava Daniels
Hannah Einbinder's Ava Daniels is the canceled young writer across from Jean Smart's comic monster on Hacks — Max flagship showbiz satire, punchlines as a love language, Vegas legend hiring the intern the industry already tried to throw…
- Carl Clemons-Hopkins as Marcus
Carl Clemons-Hopkins plays Marcus on Hacks — the staff-room pulse around Jean Smart's career-redefining comic monster and Hannah Einbinder's canceled young writer. Punchlines as a love language, Vegas as a workplace, Hollywood half-hours…