Supernatural
“Gimme Shelter”
October 15, 2020
THEN
“Dean, you gave me what I needed most. I want to do the same for you.”
Day: October 18, 2020
The World Series, ‘Unsolved Mysteries,’ ‘The Undoing’ a Presidential Debate (maybe) and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
Not even Issa Rae can save this week’s ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Issa Rae & Justin Bieber
October 17, 2020
I really wanted to like this episode of Saturday Night Live. The past two episodes have been weak and pointlessly misogynistic, so I was hopeful that with a smart and funny woman like Issa Rae hosting, this week would be better.
Friends, it was not better. Leaving aside the weekly assault that is Jim Carrey’s Joe Biden, many of these sketches were awkwardly unfunny and barely elicited even polite chuckles from the audience. And then there was the sketch in which a woman is harassed by three different men, all of whom refer to her “titty meat.” Cooooooool.
What’s going on in the writers’ room, you guys? Are y’all alright? Anna Drezen, can you get control of this situation, please?
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