Author: Therese Odell

I swear to the TV gods, you better have voted.

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Amy Schumer and Cecily Strong make one last appeal to voters on ‘Saturday Night Live’

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Saturday Night Live
Amy Schumer & Steve Lacy
November 5, 2022

Back in 2016, Amy Schumer, depressed by the election results, took a break from her Comedy Central sketch comedy series, Inside Amy Schumer. She and the show are back as of this year — over on Paramount+ now — and to promote it/celebrate, she hosted the pre-midterm election episode of SNL this weekend.

And the crucial election was clearly on SNL‘s mind; the issue of abortion rights in particular, which Schumer touched upon in her monologue, and to which Cecily Strong devoted another impassioned “Weekend Update” segment, imploring voters to give a shit. Please give a shit.

Aside from the anxious political messages, the rest of the episode was hit-or-miss, with one-third of the sketches feeling like they could have been written for an episode of Inside Amy Schumer, and the other two-thirds being typical lazy SNL bits. I’m sure you can guess which of the two I preferred.

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We want Houston!

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‘The Crown,’ ‘Yellowstone,’ ‘The English,’ the series finale of ‘Atlanta’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week.

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ATLANTA — Pictured: Donald Glover as Earnest Marks. CR: Matthias Clamer/FX
Yellowstone (Paramount)

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The cheaper Netflix plan: all the ads and fewer shows. What’s not to love?

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Sleep easy, ‘The Sandman’ has finally been renewed

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‘La Brea’: In which they steal the whole meeting your relative when they are much younger thing

by Therese Odell, posted in la brea, la brea: season two

La Brea
“The Fog”
October 18, 2022
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Did bad writing drive Henry Cavill away from ‘The Witcher?’ And if so, who do we fire?

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Almost half the country thinks that we’re headed towards a civil war so maybe you should consider voting or something. Just a suggestion.

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Henry Cavill is being replaced on ‘The Witcher’ but does Liam Hemsworth even know how to take a bath?

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