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This Golden Globe-winning saga of two rival female comedians tackles the culture wars with wit and wisdom. If only HBO would let us see it

From the adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s celebrated 1945 novel, 'The Pursuit of Love' to 'Succession' season 3, here are nine of the best international series on Showmax this November.

Deborah Vance lives in a Las Vegas mansion approximately the size of Versailles with a...

Plus, they tease that theres more to Jimmy and Kaylas honeymoon suite scene.

Though Hacks is a comedy about a legendary stand-up whiling away her career in Las Vegas, its origin traces back to a surprising place: A monster truck rally in Portland, Maine. Series creators Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky had hit it off while working on Comedy Central’s beloved Broad City, so the trio were collaborating on Downs’ episode of Netflix’s erstwhile (and underrated) sketch showcase, The Characters. En route to a monster truck rally to film the “Big Trucks...

Set against the Vegas landscape, Hacks tells a story of two women who have been ousted by an unforgiving industry but are still holding onto their comedy genius. “It’s a kind of place where people go to get lost and go to have a lot of fun,” Downs says of Vegas, “but when you’re sequestered there and you live there, [Deborah]’s kind of the queen of nowhere… Hopefully, it also echoes the themes of women who have been easily cast aside.” “It was a bit...