Jean Smart’s ‘Hacks’ will end with Season 5, co-star Hannah Einbinder reveals at Emmys 2025

“Hacks” star Hannah Einbinder has shared some surprising news about the future of her hit HBO show.

The 30-year-old star revealed that the beloved dark comedy series is coming to an end after its upcoming fifth season while walking the red carpet of the 77th Emmy Awards on Sunday night.

“I think it will feel different,” Einbinder told E! News before heading into the Peacock Theater. “We’re going to start next week, and knowing it’s the last season is really bittersweet.”

“But I think it’s right, you know?” she continued. “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.”

“Hacks” first premiered on HBO back in 2021, and a fifth season was announced in May, just two days before Season 4 was released on the streaming giant.

Creators Jen Statsky, Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs, meanwhile, previously hinted that they only had a five-season story to tell, although they would not confirm whether Season 5 would be the final one.

“I think the only comment is that we’re writing right now, and if you look at the history of the show, our network has been so wonderful in terms of being amenable to the creative and being creative first,” Statsky said earlier this year.

“We know where the series ends, but along the way, things have changed, things have been added, things have been subtracted,” she added at the time. “We’re just at this point, listening and figuring out and really doing gut checks on where we want the story to go.”

“That’s a really long non-answer, but the truth is that we do let the story and the characters tell us, and so we’re still figuring out how much more there is to tell,” Statsky concluded.

Einbinder stars as Ava Daniels in the award-winning series, a young comedy writer who engages in a promising, albeit dark, mentorship with comic legend Deborah Vance (played by Jean Smart).

“Hacks” has been nominated for a whopping 62 Emmy Awards throughout its four-season run and has won 10.

Smart, 74, scored her fourth golden statuette for her role as Vance at the 77th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night.

The “Frasier” alum walked onto the Peacock Theater stage “like John Wayne” after breaking her knee earlier this summer, and thanked her “Hacks” colleagues for the biggest award in TV.

 “One of the best things about winning something like this is that you get to actually publicly thank the people you work with,” she said. “Our unbelievable crew, my incredible cast mates, led by the incomparable Hannah Einbinder. Our showrunners, beyond brilliant. And my children, who are my anchor. Joe [Pacheco], my cheerleader.”

“Everybody, let’s be good to each other,” Smart concluded her acceptance speech. “Just be good to each other.”

As for Einbinder, she won her first-ever Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy during the biggest night in TV.

“I was just really committed to the personal narrative that I had that it was actually cooler to continue to lose,” the actress, who lost out in the category three times before, began. “But this is cool too! This is also punk rock.”

“I want to thank Jean Smart, who is like the sun, and I just to stand in her warmth. And I also want to thank the cast and crew of ‘Hacks,’” she ended. “Finally, go birds, f–k ICE and free Palestine. Thank you.”