Month: February 2019
Halsey, whoever she is, hosts a TERRIBLE ‘Saturday Night Live’ (but that’s not her fault)
Saturday Night Live
Halsey
February 9, 2019
So, this episode of Saturday Night Live, it was not good. With the exception of three sketches I will get to in a moment, last night’s SNL was really not good. The host, Halsey, is very pretty and a decent little actress for someone who is ~checks notes~ a singer? Of popular music? Guess I’ll have to take your word for it. But this episode was bad and Halsey was let down by some straight-up terrible writing. Like, maybe this was the worst episode of the season terrible, and that’s REALLY SAYING SOMETHING, YOU GUYS.
That said, it’s interesting to note that, like I said, there were three good sketches, and that they were all very pointed takes on race issues: “Them Trumps”; the sketch on the appropriate uses of blackface; and the tribute to black performers on SNL were all funny, sharp, and took no prisoners. Considering that it’s been quite the week for race news between Virginia and Liam Neeson and it being Black History Month, I suspect SNL didn’t have much choice but to include so many racially-based sketches. I don’t know how many black writers SNL currently has on its staff, but it can’t hurt that SNL has its first black head writer EVER with Michael Che, and as a result not only were these sketches written, but they were really good. Similarly, it’s not a coincidence that when one of the head writers was a woman a head writer a couple of seasons ago, the female-based sketches that made it on air were really funny and trenchant and for me, a female viewer, very relatable. And what I’m saying is HIRE ANOTHER FEMALE HEAD WRITER, SNL. AND MAYBE SOME MORE PEOPLE OF COLOR AND LADY WRITERS.
‘Supernatural’: Who does that make us
Supernatural
“Lebanon”
February 7, 2019
THEN: “Dad’s on a hunting trip. And he hasn’t been home in a few days.”
NOW
The boys pop in to Precious Pawn, but they’re not interested in what’s on public display. The wad of cash Dean flashes at the owner gains them access to the good stuff in the back. It’s a treasure trove of mystical objects. Your hands of glory, gris-gris bags, dragon’s breath, creepy dolls …
I have a thought or two about this threat to reboot ‘Lost.’ I’m sure you’re surprised.
Tonight’s the big 300th episode of ‘Supernatural.’ Are you emotionally prepared?
Here are a bunch of photos of ‘Game of Thrones’ characters staring pensively into the middle distance
‘The Bachelor’: We’re all too old for this shit.
Boy, Liam Neeson, you really stepped in it this time, buddy.
‘Supernatural’: I believe in us
Supernatural
“Prophet and Loss”
January 31, 2019
THEN: “Some people just can’t be saved.”
NOW
The Ma’lak Box rests on the bottom of the ocean. Droplets of water ooze through its seams. Dean tries to breathe through the rising panic, but he can’t ignore the groaning creak of the metal. I guess Billie’s instructions didn’t factor in the PSI of the Pacific Ocean.
‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Supernatural’s’ 300th episode, The State of the Union and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV
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