Seems like giving a sketch a good ending has always been the trickiest part of sketch comedy, but jeez some of these really just petered out. I thought there would be more of a punchline to the narc students one, like they were being so extra to cover for the fact that they actually wanted to take shrooms. Instead it…

SNL seems to have real trouble starting and ending sketches these days. We have to sit and have exposition read to us before the funny bit is even on the horizon. If you can’t get a laugh in the first 30 seconds of a 5-minute skit, send it back into the room. And they’ve forgotten the power of a great last-line gag to…

Agreed. I would rate these in the C to D range. The characters, setting, and plot are interesting, but they’re not entertaining. The season seems to be missing a soul, something to make us want more instead of waiting it out like having 33 bags of Skittles left when you thought buying them from Costco was a good idea.

I’m actually angry at how bad this is and pretty shocked to see this getting anything higher than C-grades week after week. They added jump scares and a couple of easter eggs to season 1 to what is essentially one of those crummy AMC shows that came out in the wake of Breaking Bad/Season 1 of TD that were attempting…

Seems like they made an agreement with HBO to never rank it below an A-.  The first two episodes got perfect As, which was ridiculous.

This is perfect. They need to start breaking down the episode grades like this.

I’m not sure how this rates an A- when you conclude with this:

Nope, sorry. This reviewer did it wrong. I adore Ayo and I was ecstatic to watch her host. But any review of this episode that doesn’t put full attention on the insidiousness of propping up Nikki Haley, giving her a platform to legitamize herself and comedy-wash her racism was absolute fucking trash. Doing thison an…

SNL’s obsession with latching onto internet trends like, 4-5 days late, never ceases to annoy me. Oh there’s a mom in a Chewbacca mask? Let’s make a whole sketch about it 48 hours she’s been milshake ducked already!

The Dune bucket song was stupid. How do I know? Because I already wrote that in my head (as have thousands of others, I’m guessing), and it was stupid.

Ayo: A+ (top notch)

This felt like the classic SNL example of committed host, mediocre writing. I do agree with the review that the hypnotist sketch was the best, because it gave Ayo the opportunity to fully shine with a silly character (that was more realized than the similarly over the top narc character). I thought the couple…

Ayo!!! God she is terrific! That hypno/bisexual sketch was off the charts!

A major issue is that nearly every writer from the past years is gone, replaced by new, disposable people who are trying to make a name for themselves without making real sparks, plus the two proverbial cockroaches who have outlived nuclear apocalypse, Barsanti and Hughes. At this point, the AV Club is mostly an IP, a…

Okay, I will grant you that Ayo was spectacular, but when the entire show is filled with weak sketches like the “rom-com meet-cutes,” the narc students, and the interminable “town hall,” further normalizing TFG, there is no possible way that this gets a “perfect” score.

Was the show better than usual? Yes. Were there ads literally popping up over each other while I tried to read this AVC recap? Also yes, and goddamn, what did we all do to deserve that?

It depends on how widespread and “magic” the show wants these microorganisms to be. Perhaps they are infecting not only the Tsalal researchers, but others including Fiona Shaw and Navarro to varying degrees. Causing Navarro to see the researcher talk to her about her mother, or causing Shaw’s character to see her dead…

Did you... did you somehow not pick up on the blatantly obvious and explicitly illustrated point that it was not a murder-suicide, he was alive when they arrived, and one of them obviously killed him? How does that not get mentioned here? How do you fail to grasp that? Can we have someone who isn’t an apparent moron do…

I cant tell how much I’ve aged out of it, and its just seems bad as its a shittier version of Gen Z internet skits with a larger budget* aimed at people about 25 years younger than me ,and how much is just plain bad.

Yeah these “Please Don’t Destroy” skits routinely get singled out as the best, yet I find them and the trio just aggressively mediocre.  I can’t imagine how bad the rest of the show is.