#Lucia aniello

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Hacks @ SXSW IMDb Portrait Studio & Deadline Studio

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Congrats Hacks family!

Weeeell deserved!

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Hacks

2024 Emmy winners!

Outstanding Comedy Series

Best Actress in a Comedy Series - Jean Smart

Best Writing for a Comedy Series - Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky

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Watching Hacks, finally, and I noticed a thing in “Tunnel of Love” (S1 E7).

Brief intimacy choreography rant incoming >>>

Ava, who’s bi, tells Deborah:

“I realized that I could connect more emotionally with women, which led to deeper sexual experiences. But sometimes I do still need penetrative sex with a dick to come. But I don't know. Maybe I was just conditioned by the porn that was fed to me by the algorithm, you know?”

- S1 E2, “Primm”

Then, S1 E7 opens with a dream sequence.

First, George—the guy from the casino who Ava had a bizarre, drug-fueled, emotionally intense night & brief hookup with, who then killed himself by jumping out a window the following morning when she went out for coffee—is alive and back in bed with her. They kiss, gently. He initiates, after watching her sleep.

His eyes are open. She smiles, she’s enjoying it—but neither of them say anything, and her eyes stay shut the whole time, only flickering open for half a second before they kiss on the lips and closing again. And it doesn’t start with a kiss on the lips—he kisses her neck first, building up to it.

Then, he pulls back and it’s Deborah in bed with her.

Shortly after they’ve had a drug-fueled, really emotionally intense and engaged weekend away together. After knowing each other a while and all these little moments of vulnerability and bonding, Deborah finally opened up.

They really connected. Emotionally.

So George pulls away and it switches to Deborah—but now, Ava’s awake. Deborah lies propped up on an arm, and both their eyes are wide open.

Deborah speaks, “Hey,” with a grin. Ava drinks her in, her face lighting up, and she speaks, too: “Hi.”

They kiss on the lips right away, both already invested. And neither pulls away until the housekeeper bleeds into the dream and wakes Ava up.

This—

Maybe Ava isn’t “really attracted to Deborah,” maybe it’s about power or Deborah’s meanness or Ava’s “fucked up sense of intimacy,” etc.

But y’all.

This is what happens when you LISTEN to CHARACTERS. As a DIRECTOR. As an INTIMACY CHOREOGRAPHER. As ACTORS and as WRITERS.

Ava said the thing. And then all those people executed on it, and showed us the thing.

It’s the ✨ATTENTION to DETAIL✨

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Emmys Analysis: How ‘Hacks’ Beat ‘The Bear,’ ‘Shogun’ Changed the Game and Peacock Got on the Map

For the 75th Emmys ceremony, which honored TV work from 2022-2023, but was postponed until Jan. 2024 becase of industry strikes, TV Academy members lined up almost entirely behind a single drama (HBO’s departing Succession), a single comedy (FX’s rookie The Bear) and a single limited/anthology series (Netflix’s Beef).

Eight months later, at the 76th Emmys — meaning both last weekend’s Creative Arts ceremonies and Sunday night’s Primetime ceremony — two shows had record-breaking hauls: FX’s limited-turned-drama series Shōgun took home 18 prizes, more than any other show in a single cycle; and the second season of The Bear snagged 11, surpassing by one its own record for most wins by a comedy in a single cycle.

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[mykashg]

the talk easy pod with lucia and paul is a great listen the interviewer is incredibly well researched and it's nothing groundbreaking but just an insight into the heart of them and therefore imo the show. after all this time the best feeling in the world is making each other laugh and that's what they gave deb and ava 🥹🥹🥹

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Hacks Season 2, Chapter 7 Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky. 2022

LA Mansion 1366 E Palm St, Altadena, CA 91001, USA See in map

See in imdb

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Lucia Aniello in Valentino at the SAG Awards 2023

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You know, Deborah, back in Vegas, you were on top. But with all due respect… I think that was just a hill. And now you're climbing a mountain.

HANNAH EINBINDER as AVA DANIELS Hacks (2021–) created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, & Jen Statsky

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I'm the better person for the job. If you hire him, you'll just be making the same version of the same show that's existed for 50 years, and it won't be special or unique. It'll just be the same shit in a dress! No, it won't. Yes, it will, because I know you. You're already making decisions out of fear, and you'll keep doing it. And even if I wasn't the best person for the job, and I am, you should give it to me because of our relationship! It's not about our relationship. It's about making the show work. Don't you get it? It'll work better because of our relationship. What we make together is good because of it. And you know that, or else you wouldn't have asked me to come back here in the first place.

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder as Deborah Vance and Ava Daniels in season 3 of Hacks (2021-present) created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky

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Succession season 2 episode 10 "This Is Not for Tears" (2019) dir. Mark Mylod // Hacks season 3 episode 9 "Bulletproof" (2024) dir. Lucia Aniello

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Hacks | Season 3 (2024), Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs and Jen Statsky

[mykashg]

A: Happy with a demotion? Louis offered me the head writer job and I turned it down. You specifically told me to be ambitious. Except when it inconveniences you, I guess. God, you are so selfish.

D: Yes, I am. You have to be selfish.

A: Well I don't want to be. I don't want to be a shark or whatever the fuck. I wanted to do it with you.

D: I want that too. I just can't have you be head writer.

HACKS 3.05 / 3.09 dir. Lucia Aniello

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Another Emmy awards down - our second this year, as the collective strikes pushed 2023's Emmys to earlier this year.

No big surprises or watercolor moments. To me the biggest upset was Lamorne Morris of FARGO winning in the Best Supporting Actor for Limited. Even with Robert Downey Jr. (THE SYMPATHIZER) in the mix, I was sure it would go to Jonathan Bailey (FELLOW TRAVELERS; though I was pulling for either him or Tom Goodman-Hill (BABY REINDEER). Larmorne was the dark horse.

Who are 2024 Emmy winners (and not 2023/2024, but 2024 for realz winners).

Best Drama Series Shōgun *Shōgun broke records by winning the most Emmys in its inaugural season - 18 in total (14 at the Creative Emmys and four at the Primetime Emmys).

Best Actress in a Drama Series Anna Sawai *Anna made history by being the first Japanese actress to win Lead.

Best Actor in a Drama Series Hiroyuki Sanada

*While Cosmo Jarvis wasn't nominated, he was there and celebrated with the cast this weekend at various events like the BAFTA dinner.

With his WARFARE costars Michael Gandolfini and the Emmy nominated D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai.

D'Pharaoh's red hand print across his mouth brings attention to crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.

Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Elizabeth Debicki

Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Billy Crudup

Best Comedy Series Hacks

Best Actor in a Comedy Series Jeremy Allen White

Best Actress in a Comedy Series Jean Smart

Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series  Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series  Liza Colón-Zayas

Best Limited or Anthology Series Baby Reindeer

Best Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Richard Gadd

Best Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Jodie Foster

Best Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Lamorne Morris

Best Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Jessica Gunning

Guest Actor in a Drama Series Néstor Carbonell (Shōgun, FX)

Guest Actress in a Drama Series Michaela Coel (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, AppleTV+)

Best Directing for a Drama Series Frederick E.O. Toye (Shogun, FX)

Best Directing for a Limited Series or Anthology Series or Movie Steven Zaillian (Ripley)

Best Directing for a Comedy Series Christopher Storer (The Bear, FX)

Best Writing for a Drama Series Will Smith (Slow Horses, Apple TV+)

Best Writing for a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Richard Gadd (Baby Reindeer, Netflix)

Best Writing for a Comedy Series Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, Jen Statsky (Hacks, HBO/Max)

Best Talk Series The Daily Show (Comedy Central)

For the show itself, I liked that on top of the reunions, they joined genres, bringing together actors from cop shows, medical shows, law shows. Cute. The only bit that didn't work was that bit of in-show promotion for whatever booze that had Taylor Zakhar Perez and Ebon Moss-Bachrach shill. I hope the liquor goes down smoother than the transition from that bit announcing the category. On a very selfish level, I would have wanted Taylor to be a part of the honour of Greg Berlanti - he

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