Yes because that’s exactly equivalent to what I’m doing here. You have great politics and make a lot of sense!

I’m so in the rhythm of watching SNL by this point that I’m often an apologist even for episodes that everyone else thinks are terrible but this was a truly terrible episode. I might have given it an F were it not for the Pandora jewelry commercial and guy who just bought a boat, whom I still find funny. This is the…

Sincere question: If you’ve never watched an episode of SNL before why start with THIS particular one?

Since his standup bit was entirely about marriage, differences between men and women, child-rearing etc. and his views on those subjects seemed to have emerged unscathed from 1955 it seems relevant

Wow I didn’t know David Brock’s pro-HRC internet astroturf operation was still writing checks this long after the 2016 election

Season Two is definitely a switch in tone and genre from Season One so I could see not liking Season Two even if you were a big fan of Season One. For me I think the show is pulling it off for the most part but your mileage may vary

I wanted to like Claudette because of how cool LOOKING she is her being Latina etc. but it was clear from the beginning that she’s in over her head. And why did she volunteer the “cold smoke” thing if she didn’t know how to do the technique?

I said this in the comments of a previous episode. There’s an exercise called “expository dialogue” that writers use when they’re trying to get a fiction project going when they have the plot figured out but are stuck on dialogue and characterization. They just have the characters say exactly what they’re doing and…

I only knew about all the Esme/Stepford Cuckoos craziness due to reading your recap and the comments from last week’s episode. And, like most of the time when people link to the wiki or whatever of a Marvel comics character, everything seemed so crazy and convoluted I barely went down the rabbit hole of learning about…

The revisionism is that he was some kind of blameless victim, that he was just some kind of off dork who was picked on by bullies for no reason at all. Objectively, by any normal standard, Marcel’s behavior and personality that season (with TV edit!) were horrible. He was rude, arrogant, condescending, and…

If professionalism equates to better executed sketches then yes.

I agree that it was toxic. And Marcel played a huge part in creating that toxic dynamic. And reality competition shows are pretty much built on toxic behavior, especially 10 years or so ago when all this happened and sensitives hadn’t been developed as much around these issues. I’m sure you’ve read interviews with…

Whatever it was I did think it was weird that they went with a sketch where the target of the sketch was womens’ (seemingly incorrect) reactions to sexual harassment and worse. Basically the message seemed to be that Franco’s characters’ comments etc. were actually harmless and the women were overreacting while they…

What a bizarre leap? Is this a thing? I’m pretty sure Perkins was merely pointing how ham-handed the promotion for the movie seemed after awhile. Honestly it was the most promotion of their current project I’ve ever seen a host do.

I preferred Saoirse Ronan’s non-stop professionalism to Franco’s quasi-breaking every sketch laziness yes

That Chris Hemsworth sketch you’re referring to was much better than this “liberal white woman” sketch, much much funnier at least, but it didn’t really aspire to any kind of political or social commentary in the way this one did.

I don’t agree but this is a respectable opinion and I could see how you’d say so. I would’ve completely agreed until Episode 5 this year but I feel it’s redeemed itself since then, even though I agree some of what made the first two seasons (and particularly the first) special has been lost. I agree it used to be a…

I agree on the Whiterose kiss. BD Wong and the other dude seemed super awkward

I just saw the actor playing a defense attorney on a Law & Order from 1993. He’s barely aged!

It seemed to happen fast in this particular episode but I bought it because I thought the idea was that she’d been holed up in her apartment alone just watching video of people dying over and over again for weeks (or for however long it’s supposed to be since the 71 buildings were blown up) She’s cracking up. She…