TV #19 of 2022: Saturday Night Live, season 47 This is the fifth season of SNL in a row that I’ve watched straight through as it aired, so at this point I feel pretty confident in my ability to rate a given span against the program’s typical output. So, what was different for the long-running …
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Movie #3 of 2020: John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch (2019) I always appreciate artists who are willing to experiment with genre and form, but I have to say, I didn’t like this retro children’s special nearly as much as I do John Mulaney’s stand-up routines or work writing for SNL. I definitely laughed …
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Movie #2 of 2019: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) I hadn’t watched this movie in many, many years, but it holds up better than a lot of comedies from that era. (The two lead characters are con men who prey on wealthy women, so there’s a slight degree of sexism, but the narrative undercuts them more …
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Movie #1 of 2018: Airplane! (1980) It’s been quite a while since I last watched this movie, and my wife picked the DVD off the shelf tonight because she had never seen it at all. It holds up pretty well, although the pacing is noticeably slow from a modern perspective. (Obviously this is a movie …
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