Month: March 2019
Idris Elba charms on the ever-rare consistent episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Idris Elba & Khalid
March 9, 2019
I KNOW THIS IS LATE AND I AM SORRY. I was on a plane when this episode originally aired, and while I guess I could have watched it on YouTube sometime last week I did not because of reasons. (I didn’t want to.) But I’m here now and am happy to report that last week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Idris Elba, was a remarkably solid and consistent episode in an otherwise fairly sloppy season.
Idris Elba seemed genuinely thrilled to be hosting, the sketches were (for the most part) clever and none of them dragged on past their welcome, and did I mention the part where Idris Elba was the host? Because honestly, Idris Elba could just stand there being handsome for 90 minutes and it would still be a better episode of Saturday Night Live than the one Halsey hosted.
OOOOH, BURN, EPISODE OF SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE HOSTED BY HALSEY.
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Final snow report, but no TV news.
‘The Magicians’: Being unkillable is my discipline
The Magicians
“Lost, Found, Fucked”
January 30, 2019
“Go in the woods. Get a pig.”
The Monster could just conjure one, but it has to be caught with human hands and stained with human effort. A wild pig. The younger the better. Enyalius won’t come without a sacrifice.
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Nope, no TV news. Instead, a very fancy raccoon eating cherries.
‘Supernatural’: That’s it? Really?
Supernatural
“Ouroboros”
March 7, 2019
THEN: “Michael gets out, that’s it for this world.”
NOW
Team Free Will 2.0 is hunting a monster with a taste for human flesh, artfully prepared. Between popping eyeballs like they’re marinated olives and opening up a dude’s rib cage like it’s a crown roast, this may be the most gleefully gruesome episode of Show since the couple that ate each other to death in Season 5’s “My Bloody Valentine.”
Still no TV news, but a very important video involving a duck
‘Manifest’: Expiration dates
Manifest
“Estimated Time of Departure”
February 18, 2019
No TV news, just a video of a cockatiel in love with a cat
‘The Bachelor’: Pacifying the women
The Bachelor
“The Women Tell All”
March 6, 2019