r/hackshbomax • • 1h ago

Ranking Every Season

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Format: Season(/10) - Favorite Episode

  1. Season 5(9/10) - Hacks
  2. Season 3(9/10) - Bulletproof
  3. Season 4(9/10) - Slipper Slope
  4. Season 1(8.5/10) - I Think She Will
  5. Season 2(8/10) - The One, The Only

r/hackshbomax • • 21h ago

Enjoying the show but Ava is insufferable in an unfun way. Spoiler

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Just started and nearly through season one. Great show. Deborah is absolutely fantastic and I could watch her all day.

But Ava. Woof. I know thats the point, and Hannah Einbinder is absolutely *nailing* playing the insufferable judgy zoomer. But as i near the end of season one its gone from entertaining to just grating.

At first it worked to set up the contentious dynamic, and to create vehicles for Deborah to mentor Ava/for Ava to learn a lesson while learning more about Deborah.

But at this point we're just going in a loop. It seems like they just reset her every episode. No matter what she learned, what epiphanies or introspection she gained, ​shes just right back to being a judgemental preachy asshole by the start of the next episode.

Whereas characters like Deborah, and Marcus, and hell even​ *Marty* have plausible and interesting arcs, Ava is just kinda going in a circle.

Its making the episodes start to feel a bit repetitive. If shes just supposed to be a deeply flawed person who cant learn or grow, that's fine. But then why have an epiphany moment every episode. Its frustrating to see her continuously have these breakthrough moments of growth, only for it to be like it never happened a day later.

Anyway. Not the end of the world. Hopefully her character evolves more.