Dr. Evil, The Cat Ladies, the Raccoon Sisters, and Neighbor Willie were all amusing, but beyond that there weren't many laughs to be had in this outing. I found it to be one of the weaker ones of the season. Sorry Amy Adams — not your fault.

Spa Keith is endlessly amusing.

Just viewed this sketch that was cut from the show for time. At least the cringes it induces are intentional. I was not feeling the Al Sharpton cold open.
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p.s. Add the Kid Mayor sketch to the list of what worked well in this episode — brimming with hostility and absurdity and Franco frothing at the mouth — great stuff!

I've said it before, I'll say it again: from day one SNL has been uneven and in any episode in any season in any decade you will find plenty to criticize. I would put the success rate of last night's show at about 70% and that translates to an "A" for SNL. The Nativity sketch, Grow-A-Guy, culling useless memories,…

I have a big problem with this show. I love Captain Holt and all the peripheral odd balls but Andy Samberg's Jake Peralta is painfully unfunny as anything except a foil for the rest of the cast. Jake and Amy's will they/won't they scenes belong in another show — one that was cancelled 3 episodes in, never to see the…

I was annoyed that Monroe didn't just wogue and hop up on out of that pit. For someone who has seen (and done) the shit he has, he was acting clueless.

I don't think that if and when Trubel finds romance it will involve a man.

This was a very good episode. At the risk of getting a rock thrown through my window, I think Hawley is coming along nicely — he is a great foil for Ichabod. I am curious to see how Jenny reacts when she figures out that he is stuck on Abbie and hopeful that "sisters before misters" will win that day. As has been…

In her visions Katrina saw the baby in its true, demon form and yet she began lactating the moment she saw it looking human. This from the powerful witch who just came across an urn filled with — take your pick — rats or maggots. They can't be making her this stupid, can they?

i enjoyed George Wendt's comments. He's a witty guy. Perhaps he wants to stab himself in the ears every time some idiot yells out "Norm!" but I couldn't say from his demeanor that he was especially humiliated by his Top Chef duties — it seems unchanged from what it always has been.

Thanks for the reply. I tracked down the interview and it does make Kelly's elimination make more sense. It also makes Missy sound creepier. Jon-Jon want more rice?

Kelly was voted off because she was perceived as being smart and knowledgeable about the game and therefore dangerous, sneaky and manipulative. For the second week in a row the stupidest person on the island was gunning for Kelly. Where Drew failed, the determinedly ignorant rice-gobbling Missy succeeded. That was…

Whatever faults Len has, I thought his response to the scene he entered was entirely understandable and reinforced my impression of Sarah's complete lack of empathy for anyone who is not serving her immediate purposes (which Maura is). Len, Tammy's wife, the wandering Ed — not her concern. She can't even be bothered…

Okay. I am just going to put it out there. I watched an episode of this show recently and thought it was genuinely entertaining. It helped that I had seen several shows that the couch people were viewing (including Revenge, and Small Town Security). I am sure it depends on the crop of couch commenters in a given…

I was skeptical of the pilot but decided to give Halt and Catch Fire another episode to see if it was capable of credibility, shading, intelligence or humor. Nope. Episode 2 was dreadful — strident and over-blown. The laughably bad speechifying would veer into laughably bad acting-out and then swerve back into bad…

Manic, scheming, non-sleeping, paranoid, lying, running, llama imitating, spy-shack building Tony got the win he so richly deserved. Let's hope for the sake of law enforcement and the citizenry of NJ, that he actually has an off switch from game-mode as he claims. One shudders to think of the mischief he could get…

I know that next week they are going to wipe this silly grin off my face, but oh — that dance was the most satisfying moment of the series. The trio at Burger Chef was the cherry on top.

I typically defend SNL on this site (it has always been uneven) but thought that this particular episode was uniformly and painfully unfunny. It was easily the weakest episode of the season. I expected that the AV club and comments response to it would be as if we had all been sprayed with rotten whale guts. Huh.

Yeah. It almost doesn't matter that Raylan probably would not have followed through on his threat to Ava. That was some cruel shit. And then, he chose to withhold from Boyd that Ava's status was possibly in play in a deal — whether Boyd and Ava had "broken up" or not, Raylan would know that her safety would matter…