Yes. That gets on my nerves as well. I think one of the only times I enjoyed it was the high school theatre sketches. 

I wasn’t a huge fan of Kristen Stewart’s performances, but singling her out for relying on cue cards is pretty disingenuous, considering how pretty much every other host and cast member is doing the same thing these days. When they cut to Rosie The Riveter’s close up during the WWII sketch, then suddenly cut back to a…

The paint sketch does something that SNL does a lot that bugs me, so I’m just gonna rant here- they don’t just have Aidy Bryant pronounce “colour” oddly (which is a good joke, because they’re British and spell it with a U), they have to have someone point out that she’s pronouncing it differently. Like the audience…

I get it, I’m sure he’s not everyone’s cup of tea. But to me he jumps out because even with just a few seconds on screen he seems to create fully-formed specific characters instead of just rattling off the lines on the cards cue cards.

I have a feeling that McKinnon’s Warren is going to devolve into ‘Badass grandma with unworkable plans’ as time moves on–I don’t see a lot of space between this and her Clinton. I think the cold open was mostly characaturing her as such but inadvertently made some good points (the notion of voters’ different…

Right. I think the root of Dennis’ problems with SNL–besides his complete lack of a sense of humor and, this week, a bizarre dislike of Kristen Stewart–is that he thinks SNL is a left-wing show that’s failing to provide proper left-wing comedy rather than a center-right show that rarely strays from milquetoast…

Can you do the recaps for SNL instead of this person? It’s nice to hear something objective. 

The true MVP of this episode was Chris Redd’s package in the “Dance Rehearsal” sketch.

I loved him listing off the things people yell at him with “flatline” and “clear.”

The word find, you guys!

I’ll always miss Girl You Wish You Hadn’t Started A Conversation With At A Party or Moynihan’s Drunk Uncle.

Trollin, trollin, trollin, keep that Koolaid flowin. 

This week was thorough with solid laughs and very little cringe (or at least cringe without feeling cheated or nauseated). That’s all I ask for with SNL. An A.

Maybe it’s just because my expectations are low, but I really enjoyed the last two weeks of SNL. I’d give each a B+. It’s great how this season seems to be leaning into fewer repeating sketches and more general weirdness.

I knew this would get a C+ or a B-, as they pretty much all do, and most weeks I would agree, but I don’t this time. There were a few rough patches, of course. The Update jokes once they moved away from Trump were mostly clunky. The Kate-heavy sketches in the second half were all too long, even if they were…

Yeah, War Letters isn’t the sort of bit that earns plaudits from comedy critics - it’s a recurring sketch, it’s a pretty simple concept, it’s just a couple actors looking into the camera for a few minute. But it’s also consistently funny, which is sort of the whole point of the endeavor. 

I got such a huge kick out of both the Midday News and War Letters segments. The basic premise wasn’t that complicated in either of them, but they managed to just pull of this increasing craziness in them that carried both sketches to the finish. Day trying to juggle all the half-news from his wife was especially…

I’m not a huge Perkins fan in general but I actually think his SNL recaps are pretty good. It’s a surprisingly hard show to recap/review and I think he’s found a structure which really works and the fact that he’s been doing it for so long means that you know you’re getting a fair or at least consistent judgement of…

If someone reads the comments in a spoiler-filled review while not wanting to be spoiled, then only one person is at fault, and it’s not OP.

They’ve never really tried to be political. Their satire has always been about the way candidates are perceived. It works when they latch on to idiosyncrasies everyone vaguely notices but doesn’t put a finger on (Al Gore’s “lockbox”, GWB’s “strategery”, GHWB’s “prudent”). It doesn’t work when they make strident,…