Portlandia and Key and Peele are both like a third of a good sketch show. Watching them both week in, week out is pretty miserable. I still rate SNL above them both.

The last three WU anchors have also been head writer. The last head writer who wasn't also WU anchor was Adam McKay.

Have to agree. While I sort-of liked his run on the show, it's been the "safest" period for SNL that I can think of. That we're discussing last night's distinctly sub-par episode as an A- shows how…not weak, just dull, things have gotten.

I respectfully disagree with the review. Not the funniest of the season, but a long way from the worst. Hill did the best with what he had (cue card issues notwithstanding) and the only real dud was the horse one.

Seriously, Nealon's not done Update in 20 years. It's been the way it is now longer than it's been the thing you want it to return to.

The last two episodes have really turned around what I think has been the weakest season of the show so far. Neal has managed to be smarter than someone in the room a few times; Rebecca's final reveal and the events thereafter have shown her to be an excellent actress on top of being almost supernaturally beautiful;…

I'll side with Kenny on this one - as the actress herself looks great, the reference in the review was to "things the criminal should have noticed about her".

No argument from me, I'd love to see it back. It started off pretty weak, I felt, but something made me stick with it and I'm glad I did. It ended up stronger than nearly every network multi-cam sitcom I can think of, too.

I presume the deleted comment was a smuttier version of what I was coming here to post. Heelan is lovely.

He's always been able to jump from career to career, but I'd forgotten about this being the second time for the out of town thing.

Completely agree, Cliff's reaction seemed like a normal rational human response, which is why it stuck out on a TV sitcom like a sore thumb.

It certainly could have been funnier, and given the more grounded nature of this show now, having main cast members tranq-ed would seem to me an arrestable offence (there's no way the new tenant of George's place wouldn't have her arrested).

I shall take the evidence of my own eyes and brain over Wikipedia, thanks. A Norton rewrite = deleting an entire film from the continuity? Nope.

So, one ending and the other beginning in the same place is just a coincidence?

Can't say I'm sad to see it go, really. Much as I've enjoyed it, the inevitable reveal had to come sooner or later, and it became more and more obvious he was going to get away with lying to the woman he loved for years about so much of his life…

When was the last time Neal got the drop on anyone at all?

That's been my problem with it, too - that for a master criminal, he's incredibly easy to con. He has no "agency" any more, being buffered from one disaster to another.

Peter and the other FBI guy's dialogue while they were being listened to by Neal was so wooden, I was sure they were doing it deliberately for some game of their own. I don't think I understand this show any more.

Well backtracked!

And both of them continue to make action films played pretty much entirely straight.