Saturday Night Live
Sydney Sweeney & Kacey Musgraves
March 2, 2023
I don’t watch Euphoria because I have had teenage children and it was just A LITTLE TOO MUCH for me, so I was formally introduced to Sydney Sweeney in the first season of The White Lotus, as the bitchy, entitled teenage daughter of a mogul, full of woke ideas and oblivious privileged behavior, and I found her both hilarious and compelling.
Unfortunately for Miss Sweeney, based on purely anecdotal evidence, many of my male friends find her compelling for …. other, mostly prurient reasons. And it felt like with this episode, the SNL writers fell into a similar trap, focusing largely on her physical attributes, despite Sweeney being both hilarious and game and a natural at comedy. The protective older woman in me wants to fold Miss Sweeney under a wing and tell her that she deserves better, that she can demand better than just being reduced to being a pretty blonde with big boobs. But the realist in me also recognizes that the reason she is hosting SNL at all is because she’s a pretty blonde — who also happens to be a talented actress and comedian — and that sometimes (a lot of the time) she will be expected to lean into the pretty blonde thing to just survive in this business.
HAPPY WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH, EVERYONE!
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