Depends on your definition of alien. The alien was played by Bolaji Badejo, a Nigerian studying in England, so an alien of the non-extraterrestrial sort. He actually wasn’t an actor, just extremely tall ( 6'10" or 208 cm) and Scott saw him in a pub and asked him if he’d be in his movie.

I’m still pissed about Ridley Scott not casting an actual alien as the alien in ALIEN. Fucking phonies.

It’s not SNL’s job to get Democrats elected.

“Kenan Thompson and Cecily Strong stood out for their fully realized versions of Herschel Walker and Kari Lake, respectively. Later on the show took on the Democratic party and its lack of personalities and an engaging consensus candidate in the form of a horror film revolving around Biden’s intended second-term run…

It’s a weird review. Also very short. It heaped mostly praise and then gave the episode a C+? I dunno, I think I’m done reading these. The coverage has been erratic at best since the new writer took over. 

Thank you! Having watched that lazily written, unfunny WB level garbage last night, I was wondering if AV Club would have the courage to call it out. To see it praised is absolutely amazing. It was a low water mark for the show and easily one of the poorest installments ever broadcast.

Why did she give any money back to the little whiny baby? I’ve played plenty of poker, and sometimes you play poorly and still win. That’s poker.

Him throwing a big ass tantrum and accusing her of cheating would have made me just shit talk him and take advantage of his tilt.

What a weird way to start a review by suggesting that Brendan Gleeson is somehow not worthy of being on the show because he’s not an A-lister. As if the show is somehow slumming it by letting the frontrunner for the best supporting oscar win this year host. Throwing in that Miles Teller also isn’t that well known is…

Jesus, yeah, wow.

That quote should become copypasta. Good lordt.

“Life of crime”? “Hardened criminal”? “Only time will tell whether Lori Loughlin will be able to put her criminal career behind her, or if our broken prison system will come to reclaim her”? Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think exaggerating for the sake of a joke works quite as well in this video format.

What makes the first movie work is the fact it pulls a “From Dusk Till Dawn” on the audience. It’s two movies wrapped into a neat less-than-two-hour package with a tied together narrative. It starts off as a decent enough family comedy with a cute, almost ET-like, creature at its center. The movie kind of lulls you…

reuthermonkey, you clearly don’t own a cat.  We got through a lot of baking soda keeping the house smelling fresh.  That stuff is amazing!!

Wait. So the premise to this “hack” is that a person who runs out of dishwasher detergent, is going to have liquid dish soap AND baking soda?

I’m confused because elsewhere you wrote that “his game is really very cruel,” but if the other people on this show are actors what’s so cruel about it?

Is there something to be said about how the Jewish lady inserts herself into their home and calls Angela an antisemite to her face — and then begins spouting Zionist rhetoric over the end credits? Ultimately she’s much better than Angela by a margin for at least trying to find some common ground on the issue, but it…

Well, I was enjoying the Jewish lady until the whole Zionist thing at the end. Still definitely prefer her to the christian nutter though.

I really hate how social media has turned any and all social awkwardness into a diagnosis of autism.

*Snicker* writer’s pet

They should make a movie where a woman is stalked by a transwoman. Then, not only will nobody believe her, they’ll call her a hateful bigot for trying to protect herself.