It seemed like there might be a spark of great idea hidden in that murder mystery sketch. They came close to fleshing it out, but like you said, it seems like they ran out of time. It's like that paper you half-ass the night before its due.

Totally agree. Pedrad is bafflingly underused. The Ellen sketch was indicative of what has been plaguing the writers' room for years: they go into sketches with characters, but no point.

David Cross has his hands on that sweet Squeakquel money. Credibility be damned, you've gotta ride that gravy train.

I have no training in theater or acting, but I'm reasonably sure that even I could do Parsons' role in TBBT. I'm willing to bet most people here could, as well.

"Jay Pharoah’s Obama, Kanye, et al get most of the attention, but he’s really built up a stable of reliable Update guests, and his cross-eyed, happily pronoun-free Shaq is second only to his excitable Stephan A. Smith as funny black sports figures that the SNL audience doesn’t really connect to. "

I really like Aidy Bryant. Her energy made something out of that Peter Pan sketch that should have been a total wreck.

I'm convinced that they only kept Sudeikis around to do impressions of late-middle aged politicians.

That Bird Bible skit was weird and off-putting as anything I've seen on SNL lately, but I totally agree that it was salvaged by Mike O'Brien's perfect delivery of that line.

I realized last night how little range Parsons has as an actor. He only worked in one (maybe two) skits that effectively harnessed his limited persona.

They have simply run out of things for Leslie to do, so her manic, obsessive energy must be channeled into more and more bizarre pursuits.

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I was thinking more along the lines of when they were both still out cold. Not hard to shoot a sleeping man and draw the others into a trap.

I was really hoping he'd have the good sense to grab one of the two sleeping guy's gun, then get the drop on them.

I haven't read them either, but there's a 0% chance he's sincere.

I like to imagine that Dwight Shrute exists in this universe, probably unphased by the zombie apocalypse.

They should just write it with a focus group.

The "Company" had some long term promise for intrigue that could have been teased at much better.

Jennifer Garner in Alias was the high water mark for the wig industry in television.

I didn't make it to the end of Heroes, but the truly disappointing thing about this show is that I can't even remember where I left off. That's how aggressively forgettable it was.

As much as I love that scene, I still don't think Mike's little monologue there makes sense. Looking back on it, it almost feels a little too on-the-nose, like Gilligan just has to make sure we understand that this is a show about Walt's pride. It comes close to being over-written.