There are a lot of SNL sketches I love and could rewatch a thousand times, which is why I keep watching the show, but GOOD GOD do they miss the mark again and again.
I liked the cold open in the last episode a lot, I loved Marcello‘s Weekend Update segment and Update in general, I smiled at the Eyes sketch.
But GOOD GOD MAN.
I did not expect a Try Guys sketch to rile me up this much (because I did not expect a Try Guys sketch at all), but you must do something incredibly wrong to leave me with an aftertaste comparable to the one I had from the Bill Burr monologue and the Depp vs Heard sketch. How a show can roll out incredibly progressive and feminist sketches again and again and then act like that shit is fair game is beyond me. It‘s not „balance“ either- it‘s pandering.
I hated this sketch (there are plenty of other people who have already explained why) and while 90% of people who watched it had the same reaction, there are still somehow multiple news articles praising it.
Imo, this just goes to show how the media industry works.
This sketch was by far not the worst one SNL has ever done (making fun of Whitney Houston and later Brittany Murphy for addictions (or, in Murphy‘s case, an ALLEGED addiction) take the cake), but they really put out a sketch mocking a company for showing accountability concerning inappropriate workplace behaviour in the year 2022.
i’m really enjoying the olympics this year, there is some quality nonsense going on
for the first time in the modern olympics (possibly ever?) there’s an equal number of women competing to men, and included in that group we have icons like simone biles, kim yeji, imane khelif
and then over with the dudes we’ve got yusuf dikec who took up shooting after he got divorced, turns up in a t-shirt with no ear protection only to shoot near perfect rounds. we’ve got henrik christiansen who is taking tiktok by storm not for his swimming prowess but the fact he is obsessed with the olympic village chocolate muffins. we’ve got stephen nedoroscik, who is trained literally only in pommel horse so he kinda just sits around doing rubik’s cubes while everyone else does their thing (pommel goes last) and then they activate him like a fucking sleeper agent to crush the pommel routine, secure the usa a medal, and also he cannot fucking see the entire time bc he needs glasses
quality, quality nonsense
EDIT: okay so apparently the smoking thing wasn’t true, my bad guys! dikec has been competing in the olympics since 2008 and is ex-military (but his showing up in a t-shirt without any visual aids is still iconic!!)