Month: November 2017
‘Saturday Night Live’: Chance the Rapper keeps alive a good episode streak
Saturday Night Live
“Chance the Rapper and Eminem”
November 18, 2017
Saturday Night Live is finally on something of a (sorta) winning streak. Following last week’s strong outing with Tiffany Haddish at the helm, Chance the Rapper hosted the series for the first time and was an easy fit with the cast. Chance the Rapper is a charming human being who, like Justin Timberlake and Drake, radiates an air of wit and intelligence, making him something of an ideal Saturday Night Live host.
But aside from Chance being a natural comedian who is willing to embrace the goofy, the material was just better this week than it had been earlier in the season. If I were to speculate, I’d point out that the hosts of the seasons’ best episodes both happen to be African-American and that maybe, possibly what is happening here is that the minorities in the writers’ room were given more of an opportunity to pitch their ideas and express their perspectives, leading to better, more original material. And if SNL were smart, they’d realize that maybe they could make that a regular thing, instead of just saving it for special, minority-hosting occasions.
Ha ha, that’ll never happen.
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Late night comes for Al Franken and Roy Moore and everything else you missed last night.
In which I try to find something, anything to talk about other than sex monsters and I fail.
Late night points out that for Trump, the thirst is real and everything else you missed last night.
And now Al Franken is the most recent man to disappoint me. Goddammit.
‘The Real Housewives of New Jersey’: Parent traps
The Real Housewives of New Jersey
“Growing Up Jersey”
November 8, 2017
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Late night is pretty sure Donny Jr. is a fucking idiot and the rest of what you missed last night
Good morning. Your idiot President is back in the country and tweeting about TV for some reason.
‘Supernatural’: It matters what you do
Supernatural
“The Big Empty”
November 2, 2017
THEN
Mandroids. Laser eyes.
NOW
Dean has a case – a man seemingly murdered by his dead wife. He’s surprised that Sam is interested. He wonders if they’re going to leave “Damien” in a circle of holy oil to Netflix and chill while they check it out. Sam says no, they’re going to bring EJ with. Dean balks. He calls it adventures in babysitting the Antichrist.
Writer Meredith Glynn seems to be having a contest with herself to see how many one-liners she can cram into this scene.