TV #25 of 2023: Saturday Night Live, season 48 I’m a little behind on this review, since I only belatedly found out that the venerable sketch-comedy series had officially canceled its remaining episodes of this production batch due to the ongoing writers’ strike, rather than postponing them indefinitely. Strictly speaking, then, this was the 16th …
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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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TV #45 of 2021: Saturday Night Live, season 46 I may be grading on a curve here, but the erstwhile sketch comedy series bounced back pretty strong from (or rather, during) COVID-19. Following the few “SNL at Home” episodes that closed out the past season, it was sort of a relief to see the gang …
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TV #13 of 2020: Saturday Night Live, season 45 Chloe Fineman and Bowen Yang are fun new additions to this long-running sketch show, and I have to credit the whole team both on and off-screen for bouncing back so strongly after the COVID-19 coronavirus curtailed the original plans for the season. (The three pre-recorded “SNL …
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TV #15 of 2019: Saturday Night Live, season 44 The current iteration of this sketch comedy show can be kinda hit-or-miss, and I don’t know if I’d have the patience to binge a whole season after the fact. It’s pretty fun to watch on a weekly basis, though, especially for the topical political humor in …
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TV #23 of 2018: Saturday Night Live, season 43 We started watching SNL regularly sometime last year, making this the first season of the long-running sketch comedy show that I’ve actually seen in its entirety. Taken as a whole it’s understandably not as great as the isolated bits that go viral, and its present iteration …
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