[T]he sharply topical 2015-17 sitcom The Carmichael Show. The sitcom had the potential to be an eight-year, 9 p.m. All in the Family-style tentpole for NBC—if it actually knew how or cared to schedule and grow comedies anymore

Between this, The Slap, and the untimely passing of Taylor Hawkins, what a sad week for the entertainment world.

I’m ashamed that the tragic story of Devonte Hart and his siblings wasn’t on my radar at the time. Tomorrow, March 26, marks four years to the day that the Hart family’s vehicle was found over a cliff. Devonte’s body still has never been found; how I want to believe he escaped like Loquareeous.

Andrew Dismukes is really settling into the Sambergian/Fallonian occasionally-punchable-young-male spot, plus he twerks surprisingly well. Punkie Johnson is solid in everything she’s given, when she's given anything. Which isn't often enough.

Hi Michael! Looking forward to reading you. I agree with everything you said about Oscar Isaac. He was game and fully committed. A delight.

It looks like this episode makes South Park the first scripted television show to address the war. Pretty wild.

Pete is off being Pete somewhere

It probably would have been too on the nose, but I think this would have been a much better choice for closing credits than Brides of Lucifer.

LCD Soundsystem was formed when geriatric gen-Xers were 37 years old. Was that really their wheelhouse?

I think y’all missed the point of the city chicken-pigeons blurting out “cortado,” “LaCroix,” “pilates,” etc. They want all of the square footage bucolic South Park has to offer for what it costs to rent an apartment in the city, but they also still want all of the trappings of urban living, i.e., “cortado,”…

quickly wore out its welcome

geriatric millennial catnip—with LCD Soundsystem

Was it Vomit Night on HBO last night? There was also puking scene on Somebody Somewhere. I don’t even want to know what happened on Euphoria ...

It was bad enough when Reese Witherspoon neglected to mention her then-husband Ryan Phillippe in her Oscar acceptance speech, but Will Forte left him out of his end of show thank yous. Dude just gets no respect.

I’m giving the top spot to Chris Redd. He had Urkel, Eric Adams (a potential franchise), and the NBA sketch.

[I]t was only more evident that Cecily was not in the house tonight. Here’s hoping it’s just due to her tagging out for a Kate McKinnon-style hiatus to do something interesting.

She also just won a Golden Globe, and we all know how much SNL looooooves award winners.

Will Forte and Måneskin should bring some much-missed weirdness-just-for-the-sake-of-weirdness back to SNL. Or at least I’ve missed it, YMMV.

I am 52 years old. I remember the first Saturday Night Live, if not from watching it live (I would have been six)

If there’s a Wegmans in your area, they sell the rinds right next to the grated parm.