The best television comedy ends this week. It’s a good thing.

Hacks first lit up HBO streaming screens in 2021 with their brilliant chronicle of the cross-generational, talent-manager-matched, unexpected creative pairing between Deborah Vance (Jean Smart) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder).

Initially, Vance, a storied stand-up comedian in Las Vegas, on the brink of losing her…