Max's 'Hacks' Coming Back for Season 4 in April

The hit comedy "Hacks," starring Jean Smart and out queer actor Hannah Einbinder, is about to launch its fourth season, and HBO has dropped a trailer for the show's new batch of 10 episodes.

The Hollywood Reporter relayed that the new season will find the show's protagonists, Deborah (Smart) and Ava (Einbinder), working "to get their late night show up and running amid rising tensions between the two of them."

"Tensions" might be an understatement. The trailer opens with the two walking down a corridor, the air between them fairly crackling. Later, Ava hears that she's "not gonna beat [Deborah] at her own game."

With those words, Ava, trying a trust fall, plunges to the floor as Deborah, instead of catching her, stands back with a gleeful smile.

"Nobody beats Deborah!" the voiceover adds as the trailer snaps to footage of Deborah demolishing a kitchen with a sledgehammer – an ominous image, indeed.

But if amity isn't in the cards, it better at least look like it on the surface: "This is a big moment for you," Deborah is advised, "but you've gotta dance with the one who brought ya" – that being Einbinder's character, Ava, who, in Season 1, helped resuscitate Deborah's fading career.

Noting that the new season has to do some scheduling acrobatics to meet the deadline for Emmy consideration, THR detailed that the first two episodes of Season 4 "will stream on April 10, followed by one a week for four weeks afterward."

"Episodes seven and eight will both premiere May 15, with the final two installments of the season coming May 22 and May 29," just under the wire of the May 31 deadline.

The new season's cast will feature a slate of Tinseltown luminaries, the report said, including Lauren Weedman, Johnny Sibilly, Tony Goldwyn, Mark Indelicato, Helen Hunt, and Megan Stalter, among many (many!) others.

Watch the new trailer below: