‘Saturday Night Live’: Gal Gadot’s less-than-wonderful appearance

Saturday Night Live
Gal Gadot & Sam Smith
October 8, 2017

Look, Gal Gadot is gorgeous. This is not about me being insanely jealous of her beauty or her ridiculous height — which I totally am. She is gorgeous and she is charming and she is a real honest-to-God badass. But, you guys, she was not good last night as host of Saturday Night Live. I don’t know if it was a function of her not being a native English speaker or not having much experience with comedy, but her timing was dreadful — and the only thing worse was her delivery.

It wasn’t entirely Gal Gadot’s fault that this episode wasn’t great, however. The writing felt underdeveloped in most places — which was frustrating because the ideas for the sketches themselves weren’t terrible, the writing just needed some editing. On the plus side, there were a lot of bits in last night’s episode, which means they kept the sketch length down and we didn’t have to endure any one half-baked sketch for too long.

Oh, and we’re one week closer to Kumail Nanjiani hosting, so there’s that.

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The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Taking the Cake

The Real Housewives of New Jersey
“Shady Beach”
October 4, 2017

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So how much money did Stephen Colbert’s #PuberMe campaign raise for hurricane relief?

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I’ve got some bad news, ‘Game of Thrones’ nerds: Winter is not coming for a long-ass time.

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‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey: Reunion’: In which murder clowns get involved

The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Reunion, Part 2
November 13, 2016

Hey, check out part one of the reunion special over here if you missed it.

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‘Real Housewives of New Jersey: Reunion’: Oh, right, there was a reunion I never wrote about. Sorry.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey
Reunion, Part 1
November 6, 2016

I don’t know what happened. I don’t know why it took me until this new season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey debuted for me to recap the reunion special that aired almost a year ago. I don’t really have an excuse but laziness and distraction.

I will point out that part one of the reunion special aired three days before the Presidential Election, and I was busy fantasizing about having our first female President, trying to imagine what excuse Mitch McConnell was going to come up with to explain why she wouldn’t be allowed to fill the Supreme Court vacancy and bracing myself for Trump TV and its broadcasts full of rants about how Hillary Clinton stole the election. You’ll notice that the date of the second reunion was five days after the Presidential Election. I’m not sure I was out of bed yet.

But all of that is (mostly) behind us now, and the new season of The Real Housewives of New Jersey debuted last night, so what better time to revisit last season’s reunion and remind ourselves where we left off with these stugats?

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Late night agrees: Rex Tillerson absolutely called Donald Trump a “fucking moron.”

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Hey, the Fucking Moron-in-Chief is shitting all over the First Amendment again.

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‘Outlander’: Of lost things

Outlander
“Of Lost Things”
October 1, 2017

SCOTLAND 1968

Claire’s timeline has caught up to the present and converged with the events from Season 2’s finale. Claire and Brianna were visiting family in England when they learned of the death of old friend Rev. Wakefield.

They traveled to Inverness where Brianna stumbled upon news accounts of Claire’s disappearance. She did the math and realized Frank couldn’t be her biological father, but rejected Claire’s story of sexy time travel.

Until Brianna witnessed another woman, Gillian Edgars, go through the stones at Craigh na Dun.

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‘The Orville’: Bio-Dumb

The Orville
“If the Stars Should Appear”
September 28, 2017

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