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It’s been nearly 10 years since The Red Wedding. Who’s ready to be retraumatized?
Not even The Grammys can slow ‘The Last of Us’ down
Aubrey Plaza hosts a delightful ‘Parks and Rec’ reunion on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Saturday Night Live
Aubrey Plaza & Sam Smith
January 21, 2023
Aubrey Plaza is having a moment. After being best known for playing the dark and deadpan April Ludgate on Parks and Recreation, Plaza re-emerged last year as the dark and deadpan … and sexy Harper on The White Lotus. But it’s not that Plaza is typecast — she’s just playing Aubrey Plaza as evidenced by this old Today Show interview in which she discussed being a (very bad) NBC page in the early 2000s.
Yes, Plaza began her career as an NBC page (while also performing stand-up and improv at Upright Citizen’s Brigade) and even tried out for Saturday Night Live before landing the role of a lifetime on Parks and Recreation.
Aubrey Plaza as a SNL intern in 2004 vs Aubrey Plaza hosting #SNL in 2023 pic.twitter.com/TzhnWAW0pP
— The SNL Standby Line ⇾ Saturday Night Live! (@standbyline) January 22, 2023
And so Saturday’s gig hosting SNL was a homecoming for Plaza, an opportunity to fulfill her dream of being on Saturday Night Live, and to reunite with her Parks and Rec co-star, boss and SNL alum, Amy Poehler. It was a celebration of Plaza’s growth, and (for the most part) the writers rose to the occasion, giving Plaza material that fit her dark and deadpan brand.
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‘Supernatural’: Who does that make us
Supernatural
“Lebanon”
February 7, 2019
THEN: “Dad’s on a hunting trip. And he hasn’t been home in a few days.”
NOW
The boys pop in to Precious Pawn, but they’re not interested in what’s on public display. The wad of cash Dean flashes at the owner gains them access to the good stuff in the back. It’s a treasure trove of mystical objects. Your hands of glory, gris-gris bags, dragon’s breath, creepy dolls …
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‘Saturday Night Live’: Gal Gadot’s less-than-wonderful appearance
Saturday Night Live
Gal Gadot & Sam Smith
October 8, 2017
Look, Gal Gadot is gorgeous. This is not about me being insanely jealous of her beauty or her ridiculous height — which I totally am. She is gorgeous and she is charming and she is a real honest-to-God badass. But, you guys, she was not good last night as host of Saturday Night Live. I don’t know if it was a function of her not being a native English speaker or not having much experience with comedy, but her timing was dreadful — and the only thing worse was her delivery.
It wasn’t entirely Gal Gadot’s fault that this episode wasn’t great, however. The writing felt underdeveloped in most places — which was frustrating because the ideas for the sketches themselves weren’t terrible, the writing just needed some editing. On the plus side, there were a lot of bits in last night’s episode, which means they kept the sketch length down and we didn’t have to endure any one half-baked sketch for too long.
Oh, and we’re one week closer to Kumail Nanjiani hosting, so there’s that.
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