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Edward Lindon
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SNL has a well-known, long-standing problem with endings to conceptual sketches. (Don't we all…) I thought scatology and dogging for dead people were as good as any. In any case, both scenes made me laugh. I felt SNL really mined some deep, dark humour on this one, and was all the better for it.

Anyone else noticed that Jordan Rock ("Kevin") has a jaw structure and a toothy way of speaking that strongly resembles SNL's Pete Davidson?

"Mickey screams at her ex-Dustin (Rich Sommer) while they fight"

This series is starting to warm up. Lots of nicely shaped jokes: the drawers full of books, the hesitant banter, the occasional slips from best behaviour.

Great episode! But like Alasdair Wilkins, I found Felix's final escape troubling. The rich, white male gets off and the brown woman takes the fall, while the witnesses allow themselves to be bought off (or not…). Too close to real life for comfort.

Anyone else notice the bizarre intercutting of storylines that occurs around minute 8? Gene and Louise go out in the car with Mort, but when the insurance adjuster visits the restaurant, they are back inside, then the scene shifts back to Mort driving, and they are in the car again. ???

Anyone else notice the bizarre intercutting of storylines that occurs around minute 8? Gene and Louise go out in the car with Mort, but when the insurance adjuster visits the restaurant, they are back inside, then the scene shifts back to Mort driving, and they are in the car again. ???

I felt they underused Matt Berry. He had some nice lines early on and was allowed to deploy his absurd and melodious chesty warblings, but by the end he seemed like the standard-issue smug British villain coming a-cropper that American audiences still appear to find so satisfying.

This is a fair review. I'm reading both versions now. The characters are flat, the exposition clunky and the dialogues unnatural. Pretty much pulp fiction. The English translation is generally pedestrian and frequently awkward and unidiomatic. It's a shame a professional translator wasn't hired for the job, or at

"That generation knew that Osama Bin Laden was dead before the mainstream media could get on air".