TV Academy Voters, Take Note! Kaitlin Olson of ‘Hacks’ Is a Mixed Bag of Funny and Ferocious
variety.comRosemary Rossi It takes a very special acting skill to match Jean Smart’s snarkiness as Deborah Vance on “Hacks” — and Kaitlin Olson is just that kind of talent.
She vividly exposes the connective tissue between Olson’s D.J. and her comic mom’s complicated parenting. She’s a regular chip off the ol’ damaged, humorously sarcastic, cynical block.
Season 3, episode 3 of the Max comedy was Olson’s time to shine, and that she did. It’s not like she hasn’t previously flaunted her power to ride that fine line between playing real, escalating emotion and shamelessly stealing scenes.
She has repeatedly proven she’s got the chops. That’s the magic spell that Olson casts. The “Hacks” episode, “The Roast of Deborah Vance,” which landed Olson a guest acting Emmy nom, starts off calmly with Deborah asking D.J.
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