Hacks is arguably among the best comedies on tv proper now, and the Jean Good co-lead HBO present is making its 2025 TV schedule debut on April tenth. I can’t even start to elucidate how excited I’m to meet up with Debra Vance (Good) and Ava Daniels (Hannah Einbinder) as they battle it out now that they’re engaged on a historic late-night present collectively. However as thrilled as I’m to see the present get one other season, I can’t assist however root for the potential spinoff the showrunners have began to tease.
If you happen to’ve ever watched an episode of Hacks, you realize the present is populated with hilarious and eccentric facet characters who’ve superb chemistry with one another. Any one in all them can be excellent for a possible spinoff. Nonetheless, it’s Debra and Ava’s agent, Jimmy (Paul W. Downs), and his assistant-turned-partner Kayla (Megan Stalter), who’re the entrance runners within the showrunners’ minds on who might probably get their very own present when Hacks ultimately ends.
As open as they’re to the thought, it’s going to take extra than simply their pleasure to get a derivative greenlit by HBO, which is why co-showrunner Jen Statsky instructed Deadline that if followers are critical about it, they need to “demand it.” Contemplate this me demanding it!
Not solely have Jimmy and Kayla been scene stealers for the reason that very starting, it’s really easy to root for the hilarious underdogs that they’ve nearly dethroned Debra and Ava as my favourite duo on the present. It’s one thing Statsky and her fellow showrunners Lucia Aniello and Downs are conscious of, which is why Season 4 guarantees much more Jimmy and Kayla hijinks, just like the addition of a brand new assistant for the pair performed by Robby Hoffman.
Statsky calls the transfer “increase the world,” which positively bodes effectively for a possible spinoff for the reason that present would must be populated with characters apart from Debra and Ava, whose tales would hopefully be wrapped up within the ultimate season of Hacks — at any time when that could be.
Nonetheless, Stalter, who brings the hilarious Kayla to life, as her personal ideas on what she’d prefer to see if a Jimmy/Kayla spinoff had been to be ordered by Max. As she defined to Deadline:
I feel it might be humorous if she obtained pregnant and Jimmy has to assist her handle the infant. Toss something actually difficult at her and see her completely embrace it. I feel one thing fully out of nowhere and see if she handles it effectively. But in addition seeing Jimmy get dragged into it might be actually humorous and weird. I don’t suppose they need to be a pair, however that’s one other factor, if he was to assist her along with her child. It’s one other component of them being like, ‘We’re not a pair, however it looks as if we’re a pair.’ I need to see them increase a child collectively, I need to see the infant within the workplace.
Being pregnant plotlines don’t at all times have one of the best monitor report on comedy exhibits, however this may be one of many exceptions as a result of I’m already obsessive about the thought. Not solely would it not be a hilarious method to see Kayla develop right into a extra accountable grownup (hopefully), however the implications of Jimmy being dragged into it are overflowing with comedy. In any case, the 2 already skirt the road of their relationship, particularly within the Season 3 finale, the place Jimmy’s work proposal was taken out of context by bystanders who thought he was proposing to Kayla.
Along with being hilarious, Hacks has a manner of incorporating social commentary and criticism into its episodes, and that’s one thing that would positively occur if the potential spinoff went with Stalter’s thought. In any case, so many ladies are juggling motherhood with their high-profile careers, but that’s not mirrored a lot on tv.
For now, a Kayla and Jimmy-centered spinoff continues to be only a dream, however at the least followers will get to see the duo in motion in Season 4 of Hacks.
You’ll be able to stream the primary three seasons of Hacks with an lively Max subscprition now.