‘Hacks’ Will End with Upcoming Season 5, as Emmy Winner Hannah Einbinder Revealed

Star Hannah Einbinder broke the news on the Emmys red carpet, saying it was good to "not overstay your welcome."

“Hacks” is about to have its curtain call. Star Hannah Einbinder on the red carpet at the Emmys told E! that the upcoming fifth season of “Hacks” would be the HBO Max series’ last.

An individual with knowledge of the series confirmed the news to IndieWire, adding that it was always meant to be a 5-season series, per what creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky had always envisioned for their Hollywood satire series.

That detail, though, seems to be news to most, as “Hacks” was picked up for a fifth season back in May, and Einbinder told E! red carpet host Heather McMahan, “you can quote me on that. I’m going on the record on that.” Einbinder went on to win the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy.

“I think it will feel different,” Einbinder said on the carpet. “We’re going to start [filming] next week, and knowing it’s the last season is really bittersweet. But I think it’s right, you know? I think it’s nice to do something as many times as it should be done. Not overstay your welcome. Rip it and do it and laugh and cry.”

It would be just like “Hacks” for Einbinder’s Ava Daniels to accidentally spill the beans that her show was going to end when it actually wasn’t, only for the studio to then end it anyway.

Fittingly, the fourth season of “Hacks” saw Jean Smart’s Deborah Vance starting her own late-night talk show, with Ava as her head writer, only for the show to abruptly end amid a scandal leaked by Ava. It then concluded with Vance doing comedy overseas and being mistaken as being dead by the press.

Smart won the Emmy for Best Actress for the fourth straight season, having won for every season of the show, and she’ll likely be going for her fifth once the series premieres in 2026. Einbinder, for the first time, won for her work on the show, saying that though she was committed to thinking she would forever lose, it was still “punk rock” to have won. “Hacks” has won 12 Emmys in its four-season run thus far.