Saturday Night Live - Blog Posts
Iβm so upset, I had a teacher once that made us study the musical theory behind Sea Shanties and the SNL skit was so close! But it was just a tiny bit off in terms of how it was used breath and note wise that my brain went ahahayag
So my brain is making me angrily miss sailor RegΓ© because Iβm too busy thinking about the music theory of FRICKEN SEA SHANTIES
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From ArtFight2021
SNL: Pop Muzik
Lindsay Lohan Hermione
I think Kris will show up on her wedding like in first picπ. Tho I wanted her to show up in wedding gown.
That cafe society look thoβ¨πΈπ
I hope edits are not lame.
Pedro Pascal SNL + Jimmy Fallon Thots
I decided to put my opinions about both with a score beneath the break in case anyone hasn't seen either yet.
Jimmy Fallon: 1/5 Stars
Pedro looked great, but boy Fallon fumbled the ball a bit with his interview questions. I was texting one of my BFFs about it while we watched together and I was shocked that it was over so quickly. The questions were weak and I felt like didn't give the man much to work on, so aside from looking good it was just hard to watch as a SW/TLOU fan.
SNL: 3/5 Stars
Honestly, the Mario/TLOU mashup had me in tears. But aside from that, I wasn't that impressed with this episode. Pedro felt like he was just... there. Involved but not as a host, which was a weird feeling as a long-time SNL fan. I also felt like they lost out on a LOT of opportunities for TLOU, Mando, and even GOT skits they easily could have made fun of the fact that his characters keep dying horrible deaths and being reluctant father figures. The skits felt like anyone would have been in them and not tailored to him and it was a little disappointing. Especially with Mando coming back in a month.
The other hot take that I'll probably get backlash for but it's whatever is that I thought the hospital and Italian restaurant scenes were really poor taste. As a disabled person who's had nerve and brain damage from injuries as a kid that left me with a speech impediment, I was horrified that they'd make fun of something like that regardless of how funny the accent he used was. I constantly deal/dealt with people making fun of the way I talk because I slur certain words and if I didn't have the self-esteem of a god I probably would have stopped talking altogether. There are ways to make funny skits around that that don't make fun of disabled people. Same with the Italian restaurant scene, it was really uncomfortable watching a woman get ganged up like that. I just couldn't find the humor in either skit.
But the others I did enjoy, especially Mami Pedro. As a Spanish speaker, the skit had me in tears. And even the steak scene, it happened with a former black college roommate of mine who only ever ordered steak extra well and with catsup so I had a lot of great flashbacks to that. But other than those and the TLOU sketch, I felt like this episode just lacked a lot. There was so much potential that I felt like was thrown away and I wish Pedro had been more involved, but it wasn't horrible. I hope SNL and even Pedro do better regarding jokes at the expense of historically underrepresented people moving forward.
Henley Monday - It's a Monday in March. The sun is nowhere to be seen. It's still only the 11th, so we're still in the Lion's territory as opposed to the Lamb's.
But our friend Justin Timberlake is sitting on top of the world. He hosted Saturday Night Live for the fifth time this weekend and was also the musical guest. It was a show filled with cameos from some of the all-time SNL greats and your favorite (or least favorite, "bring on down to _____-ville!") recurring characters from episodes past.
It should come as no small surprise that a song called "Suit & Tie" about the transformational power of formal wear ranks highly in my book. JT is a regular fashion plate. Why here, he wears a henley with contrasting placard under a sport coat with a spiffy pocket square.
JT gets it.
The gay Holy Trinity of Bill Hader
