Ru Paul’s Drag Race (MTV)
9-1-1 (ABC)
American Idol (ABC)
‘So You Think You Can Dance,’ ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars,’ ‘Angelyne,’ a ton of season finales and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week.
Month: May 2022
Selena Gomez is saddled with maybe the worst ‘Saturday Night Live’ episode of the season
Saturday Night Live
Selena Gomez and Post Malone
May 14, 2022
I didn’t realize I was a fan of Selena Gomez until her absolute star turn in Only Murders in the Building (although her 2017 song “Bad Liar” is fantastic; strongly recommend). In that series, she is the third, paired with comedy superstars Martin Short and Steve Martin, and she not only does she hold her own, she is the magic that makes the series work as well as it does. So I was hopeful that she would command a strong Saturday Night Live this week — after all, she has the comedy chops, she just needs the right material to make it all work.
Sadly, friends, she was not given such material, but instead was burdened with perhaps — and I say this hesitantly because it just wasn’t all that long ago that the disastrous Paul Rudd episode happened — the worst episode of the season? Maybe the worst episode of the season! I mean, we still have an episode to go, but this episode is a strong contender for the worst episode of the season. It’s not just that the cold open is terrible or that Baby Yoda makes another appearance, it’s that there are sketches in this episode that feel half-written, or worse, not written at all, just glimmers of an idea jotted down on a cocktail napkin. It just feels like there was very little episode put forward this week.
Anyway, I’m mad at this episode and think Selena Gomez deserves a do-over.
Welcome to network TV’s Red Wedding. It’s a bloodbath in here. (Updated.)
The tragic death of Naomi Judd and our on-going suicide by gun epidemic
The GOP fight with Disney has just become stupider somehow.
Your days of “sharing” Netflix passwords are numbered, you mooches.
We are a week away from Upfronts. Let the cancelations begin!
‘Hacks,’ ‘Candy,’ ‘The Kids in the Hall,’ ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
Naomi — “Unidentified Flying Object” — Image Number: NMI102a_0328r — Pictured (L-R): Mary-Charles Jones as Annabelle, Kaci Walfall as Naomi and Camila Moreno as Lourdes — Photo: Danny Delgado/The CW — © 2022 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Ryan Kiera Armstrong as Charlie in Firestarter, directed by Keith Thomas.
Saturday Night Live: Cumbernotterrible
Saturday Night Live
Benedict Cumberbatch & Arcade Fire
May 8, 2022
Benedict Cumberbatch first hosted Saturday Night Live on the last episode before the 2016 election. I do not hold this against him, and I blame him for nothing. That said, he should be happy that … other events overshadowed that episode, and most people have little to no memory of the appearance. Because honestly, through no fault of his own, it was not great, to say the least.
On this, his second time on the Studio 8H stage, Cumberbatch, who is a brilliantly talented actor with a natural sense of humor, had much better material to work with. It wasn’t all perfect, heaven knows. But thanks to current events which have many of us laughing through ABSOLUTE RAGING FURY, the material he was given was at times inspired.
