Hannah Einbinder Bids Farewell as Hacks Series Finale Nears
Hacks series finale arrives on HBO Max on May 28, closing a five-season run that began in 2021. Hannah Einbinder marked the end with a farewell post to the creators, framing the show as the project that launched her acting career.
Einbinder said Hacks has "made everything in my life possible," a blunt measure of how much the series changed her path. She added that she had no acting experience when she started on the show and that it gave her the ability to tour and put out a standup special.
Einbinder’s farewell message
On Monday, Einbinder posted a photo of the four of them and wrote, "I love this picture." She added, "It’s a good representation of how we feel about each other, and of the support and love Paul, Jen, and Lucia have always shown me."
She also wrote, "I had no acting experience when I started on Hacks (sorry) – but I think the reason I could do the job was because the character they created in Ava was so real." The post tied the end of the series to the people who built it, not just the role that made her visible to a larger audience.
Paris, 2019, and the finale
Paul W. Downs said the show’s beginning and ending now sit on the same map. In 2019, he, Jen Statsky and Lucia Aniello got an Airbnb in Paris to write the pilot of Hacks, and seven years later they went back to shoot the finale.
Downs said the finale was filmed on the same street as the Paris apartment they used while writing the pilot, by coincidence. That kind of loop is rare in television production, and it gives the ending a built-in symmetry that most shows never get to claim.
HBO Max on May 28
Hacks debuted on HBO Max in 2021 and went on to become a 5x Golden Globe-winning comedy drama. The five-season run ends with a finale that brings the original creative team back to the place where the series first took shape.
For viewers, the practical detail is simple: the final episode hits HBO Max on May 28. For Einbinder, the bigger shift is already visible — the show that she says made her career possible is ending, and the people who built it are saying goodbye in public.
