Happy Electoral College Day! Don’t forget to leave out cookies and bourbon for your slate of electors!
‘The Stand,’ ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,’ ‘The Expanse,’ and everything else you don’t want to miss on TV this week
Pictured: Alexander Skarsgård as Randall Flagg of the the CBS All Access series THE STAND. Photo Cr: Robert Falconer/CBS ©2020 CBS Interactive, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
MA RAINEY’S BLACK BOTTOM(2020) Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, Viola Davis as Ma Rainey, Michael Potts as Slow Drag and Glynn Turman as Toledo. Cr. David Lee/NETFLIX
The Masked Singer (Fox)
‘Saturday Night Live’ was one big Timothée Chala-meh
Saturday Night Live
Timothée Chalamet & Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
December 11, 2020
I don’t have any feelings one way or another about Timothée Chalamet. Looking over his IMDb, it seems I’ve only seen one movie where he has a big role, and though he was in Homeland, I have no memory of him, maybe because it was 8 years ago. The point being, I went into this episode of Saturday Night Live something of a blank slate at least where his performance was concerned.
And from what I can tell, the Saturday Night Live writers weren’t sure what to expect of him either. They filled the night with safe sketches, and implemented the buddy system, placing him literally shoulder-to-shoulder with Pete Davidson three separate times.
But honestly, they needn’t have worried. Chalamet was clearly enjoying himself, and though he’s not the most natural comic actor, he held his own, mostly through enthusiasm. And frankly, he did the best he could with the material he was given. I went to bed irritated with this episode, convinced it was terrible. I rewatched the episode in the cold light of morning and came away merely disappointed. It wasn’t terrible, it was just middling. Is it that the writers have already blown through whatever energy they had last week, or are they looking to be inspired by a host they know they can trust, like maybe Kristen Wiig next week? Let’s hope it’s the latter.
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The Supreme Court tosses Texas’ dumb lawsuit, so I guess the GOP will have to come up with some new way to be seditious. ~womp womp~
‘The Bachelorette’: Truth and consequences
While America hits a COVID death milestone, the White House parties. Literally.
Oh, great, now Texas is driving President Grifter’s stupid train.
Happy Safe Harbor Day! Have you decorated your Electoral College tree yet?
