#Paul W. Downs

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Hacks 3x04 "Join the Club" ⇒ requested by anonymous

[anniemunchkins]

Paul W. Downs, I have never loved a man more...

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#TheWrapMagazine: ⭐️ Hacks is Back! Having fun with nominees Hannah Einbinder, Paul W.Downs and Jean Smart 📸: @johnrussophoto ✍️: @stevepond31 🔗: Link in bio to see our Digital Edition! Glam Credits: Hair & Makeup For Jean: Keith Sayer @keith_sayer Makeup For Hannah: Molly Greenwald @mollygreenwald Hair For Hannah: Jerrod Roberts @jerrodrobertshair Groomer For Paul: Sonia Lee @sonialeeartistry

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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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paul w. downs as jimmy lusaque, jr. in season three of hacks

primetime emmy award nominee for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series

[thestarlightforge]

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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[idealuk]

And Season 3 of "Hacks"?

Why do so many actors who I adore want me to die on the day after my birth day?

I also haven't forgotten that, come midnight, I'll get to watch Colin and Eric Lange go head-to-head on "Sugar".

May 2nd might actually end me. The Idea Of You and Oliver and Ryan drinking real alcohol as Buck and Eddie weren't enough?

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[mykashg]

"The first shot of the season is Deborah's back and then we tag the statue of Caesar so hopefully nobody read to much into the fact she'll be stabbed in the back." — Paul W. Downs

[anniemunchkins]

Mara's one of us.

[harrison-wells]

#TheWrapMagazine⭐️ Hack Attack! @RealJeanSmart, @HannahEinbinder and @PaulWDowns talk about Hacks and detour into everything from the Power Puff Girls to the presidential election ✍️: @stevepond31 📸: @johnrussophoto

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[menlove]

when you're the most normal anyone has ever been about their bandmate

[djkerr]

Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder at the HBO Max Emmy Nominee Celebration Panel for "Hacks".

NYA East | Los Angeles, California | August 11, 2024

📷 cred Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images