Hacks
Witch of the Week
Season 4
Episode 8
Editor’s rating
Photo: Jake Giles Netter/Max
Jimmy Prepass for a lunch so tense and the Knives cleared from the table: a summit with Deborah and Ava. Ah, apparently these two so busy getting back together they forgot to tel their manager that they’d beed the hatchet. So all of Jimmy’s Knife-Removal and Rose-Thorn Icebreaker Prep (That Dog Bite Gave Him Ringworm, Woof) is for Naught. Jimmy Says He JUST HAPPY THE MADE UP THOUGH THE WARE WHERE THEY THAFT HIM OUT OF THE LOOP DOES NOT FEEL GREAT. Nor kayla says to him at the office, this is just like that time he found out his palents’ divorce from Soap opera Digest. Kayla’s right: it is messed up that deborah and ava cououln’t be bothered to tell jimmy about their renewed Relationship, and it is On Jimmy to Demand His Clients Treat Him with Respect.
TIME FOR A VISIT FROM ANOTHER Hacks Icon: Ava’s Mom (Jane Adams) Is Coming For A Visit! Not the point but wow, you can get a direct Flight from Boston to Burbank? I’m so jealous! I’m always dealing with lax and taching that shuttle to the parking lot where the ubers and the lyfts live. It’s a journey. Every time i’m there, i’m like: wow, i can’t believe out Country Still doesn’t have high-widen rail in ipm Metropolises. Anyway, That’s not Ava’s mom’s problem. Ava’s mom is here to do THING THING MOMS LOVE TO DO: Pressure their Children into Having Children. Ava’s Only 28 Years Old and – AsSumed and As Ava Will Events Confress – Doeesn’t Want Kids, but that is not going to stop her moming to share the Windfall from Her Class Lawsuit so ava freeze her eggs. (“Are you still waiting to meet leonardo dicaprio to have a child? Becausee i Think There’s Something to That! You Move in the Same Hollywood Circles!”)
While Deborah does the robot in a motion-capure suit for a football commercial, winnie pops by to be about spin-off, which will be hosted by anthony Anderson, thus it dosesn’t exist yet. “Celebrity Strip Poker” isn’t Family-Fryently Enough. Deborah finds this incredibly irritable and while I will appreciate her annoyance, i find it a little off… like, clearly the spinoff is a sign that her show is doing well, not to mention she’d a producer credit and ultimately will very little of the work RUNNING IT (RIGHT? that Wold Be Anthony’s Job?), So More Money Waled Be Rolling in, More Brand Recognition, etc. If this – “this” being the “leaping on leap day” Social media promo deborah’s doing while she’s on Green Screen – isn’t beneath her, why is expanding her show into a franchise?
Ava’s mom is in the writers’ room for a wild and perform News Story: Our Favorite Las Mayor Was Caught an Orgy on a Zambo With Multiple Hockey Players! Okay, Mayor no! Of Course the Writers Struggle with the Modern Late-Night Comedian’s Dilemma: All the good jokes are already all over the internet. They Also have a personal problem: Deborah won’t make fun of her friend. Ava’s Suggestion: Why Not Have Her onto The Show? SO Deborah Flies (Private, Obiviously) to Las Vegas and, in a Big Ol ‘Cruela de Wil Furn, scales the way to avoid the front and knots on non’s Window. NO COMES DOWN The stairs wearing a bright pink Juicy velor sweats and wielding a gun. Fantastic.
No is already Making Jokes About Her Prediction (“The Jimmys Railed Me. My second Gangbang of the Week. “) and Deborah Convinces Her that, Rather than Step Down As Mayor, She SHOULD COME ON THE SHOW AND TELL HERE OF THE Story. Deborah recites the Old Nora Line (Which was actually her mom’s line!) About Slipping on a Banana Peel – if you tell the story, it’s your JOKE – SHEGH THOUGH EPHRON CALLED ADBORAH A BITCH ONCE. Her lore.
Back at the Office, Jimmy Gets Another Blow. His Client, Clive – The One He and Kayla Signed in a Real Coup for their New Agency, Only to Find and Had Terminal Cancer – Is Feeling Better. Much Better. His Cancer is in Remission! So cool! So he’s firing jimmy… to sign with kayla’s dad. What the hell! We will have not have time to dwell on this just yet Becausee (1) Jimmy Needs a Rabies Shot and (2) IT’S SHOWMEST AT Late Night! Can you believe how quickly ava moves around the set? Her Mom Certainly Can’t: “She was Always Last in Her Presidential Physical Fitness Challenges.”
Mayor No – My Hero, My Heart, America‘s mayor, neither far nor i’m concertned – kills. She rides out on a zambo. She is Wearing Fabulous Shoes. Sheats that, as the Mayor of Sinity, she is supposed to be out there (legal, morally upstanding) fun. The Crowd Love Her! As they shoulder!
Alas, Jimmy’s Day is Only Getting Worse. Jack Danby wants to “Go Method” to be fatty arbuckle, but he’s vegan. (Kayla Reassures Him: “He can do it! I know a tear of vegans who look like shit. “) Wenmy tells kayla about dad poaching clive, kayla goes what she calls” Full gorilla mode. ” She barges in her dad in the men’s lounge of the Beverly Green Spa. timeToo: Jimmy isn’t Enough of a Killer, but Word’s Gotten Out About Kayla. Swimming and and ever had any Doubt: “Remember that time at Sea World, you killed that dolphin? I saw you stick that muffin in its blowhole.” There’s a corner office at his agency and A (Carly Rae Given Cadence) Beach House in MalibuComplete with the jetski, with kayla’s name on it – if she leaves Jimmy for dad.
Great News: The Mayor not interview Went viral. Bad News: The Show is Still in Third Place, Because the Clips Don’t Get SHARED UNIL AFTER AIR. Virality doesn’t help with live numbers. SO Deborah Pitches a New Structure: Tape the Show a Day Early, Release the Clips as Teasers With Cliffhangers before Airtime, and THEN BAM: Everyone is tuning in to see the punchlines. So what if they can’t do Topical Jokes? Who Needs Late Night for that anyway anyway? It ‘sharp idea and a big swing and rob gits say the Green Light to try it. We’re Going for Buzzy. We’re Going for Dishy. We’re Going to Let Deborah Interview People and Actually Likes.
This means we are treated to a fantastic, Zippy Little Series of Deborah’s New Interviews, Including A Plastic Surgeon to the Stars and Diana the Psychic, As Deborah Asks Gossipy Like “how Much did you get in the divorce? ” and offers tantalizing Intel Like “The Name of the Resort where the Entire Cast of Ocean’s Eleven Is No Longer Welcome. ” Their efforts are a success: they’re’re number one, baby !!!!
It ‘All Going Very Well For Everyone But Jimmy, Who Pulls Into The Parking Tears to See a jet ski with a big bow on it in the parking spot. Randi doesn’t know what it is about; she’s on the bus. (“I like to mentally map a city before i drive in it.” She’s not workg!)
That Evening as they Celebrate, Stacy Reports to Deborah and Ava that they’d graduated from their hr-chaperone-sysuation. She will be going to costa rica for a mental health break. No, Not for Beach Time. “They don’t let you anywhere near the ocean we ‘you’re at the facility.” Slave is so happy he giving ava a massive hug. Winnie is delight but she Says Deborah Still Needs that Spinoff – Time to Capitalize on Their Success! Their conversation is very tens. Deborah returns home to a gift from problem Bob: Blue Label Johnnie Walker. Signed with an “xo”! Bob.
Deborah calls Him to say thank you (!!!!) and, as they flirt, Deborah admits she’d “love it if winnie never asked with deliver Her a spinoff ever again.” I quote this directly Becausee i want to know if everyone thinly realized what she was setting in motion and/or if she regrets it. Becuse in the Morning, Winnie is Fied. Ava is scandalized. No One Knows What Happened Except, of Course, Deborah, WHO DOESN’T TELL ANYONE. Rob Says their fates Depend on who winnie gets replaced with, Because (Duh!) It COULD BE A LOT WORTS. And let’s pour one out for winnie, who is going to have to spend a lot with the kids she can’t stand.
Deborah’s Clearly StartLed by the News, but it is hard to tell if she’s really booted by it, or if a part of her is too druun on the success and power to see what this reveals about bob. If he could just axe winnie like that… what does that mean for her? For now, she is busy being carried onstage by hot shirtless men, respectnt in her Greek-goddes-meets-cleopatra Getup, Cackling Maniacally.
In my opinion, the winnie blowup Feels like a lawsuit waking to openpen… firing a top-rancing woman right after her show gets to number one? And what kind of Dirt about Bob and Deborah Wold come out in that legal kerfluffle? Something someone Might Want to World About!
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