Saturday Night Live
Benedict Cumberbatch & Solange
November 5, 2016
I so wanted this to be a great episode. I wouldn’t describe myself as a “Cumberbitch” but I do appreciate me some Benedict Cumberbatch, think that he has a gift for comedy and believed he would be a natural as host. But UGH, this episode.
In the last episode of the election, Saturday Night Live decided to tone down the politics and instead serve a bunch of sketches that were puzzling at best, down right terrible at worst, and fill the rest with guest appearances in the hopes that no one would notice that it was just flat-out not funny.
It didn’t work.
(But I don’t blame you, Benedict Cumberbatch. An actor can only do so much with the material he is given.)
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
“And Then There Were Four”
October 30, 2016
After 16 weeks we’ve finally come to the end of the Most Boring Season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey Ever. Not a single table was thrown, nor weave pulled, even Mortadella was on her best behavior. But we did get some riveting stuff about kitchen counters and driver’s licenses, right? UGH. Go ahead and take off your Louboutins, we have one last episode to run through.
Continue reading “‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’: One-on-none”
Timeless
“Party at Castle Varlar”
October 24, 2016
Germany. December 9, 1944
Wyatt questions dropping into Nazi territory and blindly bumbling into a tavern that may or may not harbor Allied resistance – with a black guy.
Let’s spend our sugar hangover looking at Halloween costumes: