Nucky's thinking several moves ahead. Jimmy better catch up in a hurry.

Fine. So classic SNL isn't funny to you. Now would you like to try and address the main point of my original post & explain how the present-day SNL isn't totally repetitive, formulaic, and lazy?

I don’t watch SNL with great regularity precisely because I don’t like
it anymore. I do absolutely love what the show once was, and will continue to
check in from time to time in the hopes that it will get back there someday.
The most likely way for this to happen would seem to be a full creative house cleaning,
starting…

Why in the hell does SNL
continually get a pass from critics? A “pretty solid” episode? Come on. This
show has been a travesty for ages now. Even worse than the fact that it’s
unfunny is the fact that it’s just so damn LAZY. They keep recycling the same sketches
over and over. Defenders of the show today will no doubt say…

My biggest criticism of this review is that Todd failed to mention this at all. It's a pretty big plot point, as it pushes Carmela into defending her family (and more particularly Tony) against her mother's prejudice, which probably served as one of the bigger factors in making her open to Tony's advances in the pool…

Great theory, but it's contradicted by what we saw later. When Clay asks Romeo what happened, he responds "your VP happened." If the van was the feds, his response would have been "I don't know what the hell happened— that van wasn't us."

I don't understand how anyone can say Pitt can't act after this last episode. His character was absolutely tormented by the decision to off Nucky and you could see it eating at him in his every expression and mannerism afterward. It was a powerful performance, done with great subtlety.