Echo Show 8 (2021) Vs Echo Show 5 (2021): Which Amazon Smart Display Is For You?
Now that Amazon has launched all-new versions of its smart displays (the new Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5), we’ve been able to peruse the specs and see the key differences that exist between the two.
These models replace the Echo Show 8 and Echo Show 5 released a few years ago, and come with a number of key upgrades too.
Now that Amazon has made new versions of its smallest smart displays; the Echo Show 5 and the Echo Show 8 available to pre-order, we’ve got all the details you need to help you decide which one to go for while we wait for our full reviews to appear.
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It’s hard to be a woman in show business in “Hacks,” the stinging new comedy series premiering Thursday, May 13, on HBO Max. Comedian Deborah Vance (the sublime Jean Smart) is looking at a reduction in her Las Vegas residency as the a cappella group Pentatonix moves in to take her dates.
“I’ve got two buckets to fill,” the casino owner (Christopher McDonald) tells her. “Idiots and people in their 20s.” Meanwhile, entitled 25-year-old comedy writer Ava (Hannah Einbinder) has tweeted the wrong thing about the wrong senator and lost her sweet TV deal.
Thanks to a shared agent, a marriage of convenience is born: a union of two caustic but deeply insecure women with more in common than either would like to admit. Created by the team behind “Broad City,” “Hacks” is a barbed comedy that also benefits from a potent core of vulnerability. It remains deeply human even at its most wonderfully absurd.
Echo Show 8 (2021) Vs Echo Show 5 (2021): Which Amazon Smart Display Is For You?
Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder in “Hacks.” The comedy series is set to premiere Thursday, May 13, on HBO Max. Photo: Jake Giles Netter, HBO Max
Smart’s Deborah is a big shot in her Sin City world. Her fans, known as Little Debbies, worship her. Her luxury home is lined with photos of herself alongside the likes of Richard Pryor and Jay Leno. But it’s never enough. Deborah once came within a hair’s breadth of hosting her own late-night show, and this perceived failure still haunts her. Her husband ran off with her sister years ago. Her underachieving daughter DJ (Kaitlin Olson) is in recovery but drinks whenever she can; she blames Mom for everything that’s gone bad in her life, and it’s not clear if she’s wrong.
In Eva, Deborah sees a younger, web-savvy version of herself and is a little repulsed. But she’s also impressed, especially once the two women start insulting each other. They’ve found their mutual language, and we’ve found a comedy team to root for.
“Hacks” is lightning fast on its feet; it peppers the viewer with comedic jabs before landing laugh-out-loud blows. Most of these are drenched in Smart’s acidic delivery. ‘’Do yourself a favor,’’ Deborah tells her charge after DJ leaves the room. ‘’Take the morning off and get your tubes tied.’’
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