TV Shows Like Hacks
If you like Hacks, here are 10 similar TV shows — each with its current AI renewal verdict, so you can see which are still going and which have been cancelled.
HBO Max · Comedy · Hacks is ended
Hacks works because it refuses to let either of its leads be simply right. Deborah Vance is brilliant and cruel and lonely; her young writer Ava is perceptive and self-sabotaging and occasionally insufferable. The show earns its laughs and its heartbreak from the same place: two people who need each other and are not entirely sure they like each other. Set against the showbiz machinery of Las Vegas, it is a comedy about what women are allowed to want at different ages, and how hard both generations fight to hold onto relevance and identity.
The best shows like Hacks
1. BEEF
Like Hacks, BEEF is a comedy-drama built around two people who bring out the worst in each other, and it takes that premise further than you might expect. The dark impulses that simmer beneath the surface in Hacks are fully unleashed here, and the show is sharper and stranger for it. If you liked watching Deborah and Ava circle each other with barely contained hostility, this feud between two strangers in Los Angeles will feel like a natural next step.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Likely Renewed62%
2. Workaholics
Workaholics is looser and more chaotic than Hacks, but it shares the same basic premise of people who are bound together by circumstance and probably should not be. The humor is broader and the stakes are lower, but the comedy of a dysfunctional group stuck in a workplace they can barely tolerate has real energy. Think of it as a palate cleanser: pure comedy with no sentimentality attached.
Stream on Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential
Ended0%
3. The Studio
The Studio captures the same entertainment-industry anxiety that runs through Hacks, with a protagonist who is desperate for approval and constantly undercutting himself in pursuit of it. It is set in film rather than stand-up, but the comedy of someone brilliant and insecure trying to hold power in a business that chews people up is exactly the same. The Hollywood satire here is sharp, and the show is not gentle about how ridiculous the whole enterprise is.
Stream on Apple TV, Apple TV Amazon Channel
Likely Renewed82%
4. Grace and Frankie
Grace and Frankie is the most direct parallel to Hacks' interest in older women navigating a world that keeps trying to push them aside. Two very different women are thrown together by circumstance, irritate each other constantly, and slowly become something like family. The tone is warmer than Hacks, but the show has real affection for characters who refuse to be finished, which should feel familiar.
Stream on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads
Ended0%
5. CSI: Vegas
Also drama · shares the las vegas theme
Stream on Paramount Plus Premium, Paramount Plus Essential, Paramount Plus Apple TV Channel , Paramount+ Amazon Channel
Cancelled0%
More on shows like Hacks
Fans of Hacks tend to look for a few specific things when they move on: sharp, often dark humor that also carries real emotional weight; stories about ambition and the cost of it; and at least one character whose flaws are interesting rather than just decorable. A workplace or industry setting helps. Generational friction, or some version of two very different people stuck together, is usually a plus. The best recommendations here hit most of those marks, even if not all of them arrive from the same direction.
BEEF and The Studio are the closest in tone. BEEF takes the "two people locked in mutual destruction" engine that runs Hacks and cranks it into something more chaotic and unnerving, while The Studio translates the entertainment-industry desperation into a Hollywood satire that is fast and funny and not always kind to its protagonist. Grace and Frankie shares Hacks' interest in older women refusing to disappear, and it handles the generational texture gently but with enough wit to stay sharp. And Just Like That picks up a beloved comedy and asks what those characters look like with a few more decades of baggage, which is exactly the question Hacks keeps asking about Deborah. Workaholics is the outlier here: it is a pure workplace comedy, looser and sillier than anything else on this list, but if what you love about Hacks is the comedy of people who genuinely should not be spending this much time together, there is something to enjoy there too.
More shows like Hacks
Frequently asked
- What is the most popular show like Hacks?
- BEEF is the most popular show similar to Hacks in the IsItRenewed catalogue.
- Are shows like Hacks still on the air?
- Of the 10 shows similar to Hacks listed here, 0 currently carry a renewed verdict — the rest are cancelled, ended, or awaiting a decision.
- How does IsItRenewed pick shows like Hacks?
- The recommendations come from TMDB's similar-titles data, and each is shown with its current AI renewal verdict so you know which are still going.