What can I say, kids? I just don't have the energy to do a sketch-by-sketch write up of this one. There was a bit of a perfect storm here, with Casey Affleck not really having the chops for live comedy and the sketch-writing being particularly weak this week. Affleck seemed to be a sport, but his low key approach really only worked for the monologue, and bringing back John Goodman and Fred Armisen to prop him up (along with semi-regular Alec Baldwin) didn't do much to cover his deficiencies. Plus, so many of the sketches were repeats of bits that either didn't work the first time (see: BDSM elves) or where the show had already picked all the meat off the bones (Kate McKinnon's grizzled alien abductee). Throwing in DOA sketches like the "everyone in the world is too shy" 10-to-one bit, that felt like Kyle Mooney at his lamest most tepid comedy, and you've got a show headed for disaster. Even the typically strong "Weekend Update" was less potent than usual this week.
Really, the only sketch in the whole show (beyond a surprisingly decent monologue) that landed was the Hillary/Love Actually parody, which featured a fun riff on the movie's most famous scene, and even a pretty great understated but perfectly-calibrated performance from Cecily Strong as the bemused girlfriend type. Otherwise, this one was the doldrums.
Shout by rafBlockedParent2022-05-29T07:14:43Z
beck and kyle on a gay streak these past few episodes and that's what dreams are made of