i think if there are simultaneous showings you should just run back and forth from one to the other every half hour to get a really blended experience.

50m for a slow paced depressing 3 hour historical biopic is very impressive still.  These films don't tend to set the box office on fire.

“Herald by some as the savior of the network television comedy ...”

The cold open was rough but man I don’t know how you could call it worse than the hailstorm bit that just dragged on and on past the point where it should’ve ended. At least the cold open featured the grand piano bit which is good for me because 4 years later I still find that 2016 open to be one of the most…

I feel like we need a steel mill style “It has been 0 days since last accident” banner we can put up on the site to show that I think this is the first time in (at least) 4 years that an SNL review has gone up without at least half a paragraph about how the show should’ve gone harder on political humor.

I thought the whole show was a blast, and laughed a ton. That monologue was fantastic, Weekend Update was great as always, and “Take Me Back” had me crying.

Yet you write, “ The filmed sketch never quite takes off (poor Ego stuck playing straight-woman for the third time,)“ which has... Nothing to do with anything. At…

Amy managed a city-wide crisis while giving birth because hell yeah, she did.

It’s crazy people think this. My wife and I have been to Israel multiple times with evangelicals and have never once heard them bring up the end times (besides when we were at Tel Meggido, to reference the fact that we were standing in the place know as Armageddon).

The big, wet boi moved the embassy to appease Evangelicals. The move was necessary as part of their Dungeons & Dragons End Times script.

The difference between Israel-Palestine and China-Hong Kong, then, is only that Israel has been more successful in branding its conflict with those it oppresses as genuinely above reproach than China has thus far been with its dealings with Hong Kong.

There’s always going to be this pay discrepancy in Hollywood though isn’t there?

Hawke’s lifetime box office total: $839,786,290. Delpy’s lifetime box office total: $80,505,921

Are we sure he wasn’t trying to talk about the “MacGruber” film?

Neoliberal now means "doesn't read Jacobin"

a kind of milquetoast Republicanism

Correlation isn’t causation — Trump hosted SNL, but so did Ralph Nader, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, George McGovern and Steve Forbes. Forbes was also a presidential candidate at the time that he hosted. Didn’t exactly help Forbes in any way and he had as much chance of being the candidate as Trump did at that point in…

I wish people would figure out what neoliberalism actually means instead of using it to mean “liberalism, but bad”.

I am painfully aware that SNL - a show which, by its very nature, is hit-or-miss - has been especially “meh” the past two-three seasons, but I wonder what’s the point of these recaps. At this point, these read like a meta-joke on the formulaic nature of SNL and I can’t imagine anyone benefitting from it: people in the…

FYI, the question about the presence of “non-athletic-looking little dudes in street clothes” and the explanation that they’re translators for players “from far-away places like Japan, Colombia, Curacao, Korea and Canada,” was probably not sucked through a wormhole from decades ago.

I have been to Albany, Georgia. Its entire economy was based on the military bases in town and, when they closed, the city never really recovered. It reminds me of many of the Rust Belt cities in their worst years. The fact that this columnist is writing something that reads like it was teleported out of 1987 is not a…