The Walking Dead
“Say Yes”
March 5, 2017
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Day: March 12, 2017
‘The Walking Dead’: In a pickle
The Walking Dead
“Hostiles and Calamities”
February 26, 2017
I KNOW I AM SO BEHIND ON THIS SHOW BUT THAT’S BECAUSE I KINDA SORTA HATE IT, TRUE STORY. Anyway, let’s catch up.
Scarlett Johansson is complicit in a terrible episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Scarlett Johansson & Lorde
March 12, 2017
What is going on, guys? Are you fatigued? Just so very tired of Donald Trump? Running out of ideas? Did you hit your heads and forget how comedy works? Because this is the second week in a row in which Saturday Night Live was not just mediocre, but downright terrible. Terrible!
Now, some, like my husband, will argue that Saturday Night Live has been downright terrible for a long time now, but that’s not true! Remember the Dave Chappelle episode? Lin-Manuel Miranda’s? Aziz Ansari’s? These were good episodes — great even! — and they aired not all that long ago.
And here’s the place where I usually excuse the host, training my disapproving eye squarely on the writers’ room. But not this week. Scarlett Johannson, you are literally a member of the Five-Timers Club! You’re practically a member of the cast now! You don’t get to be this Not Good, girl! EVERYBODY NEEDS TO DO BETTER.
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