Elizabeth Warren attends an Iowa town hall where she is asked questions about her healthcare plan.
• Sigh, another dull cold open. Kate McKinnon’s Warren impression is one of the worst impressions that’s ever been on the show. It baffles me how the real Warren can find it so funny.
1/5
Monologue
Kristen Stewart takes questions from the audience to get to know them better.
• Blah. I hate these questions from the audience monologues. At least this one tried something different by having her actually go into the audience.
• Future cast member Andrew Dismukes can be seen in the audience.
2/5
2/5
Sketch: Rosie the Riveter
Three women (Stewart, Aidy Bryant, Kate McKinnon) in a factory during the war compete against a riveter named Rosie (Chloe Fineman) and a shell shiner named Donna (Heidi Gardner) to be the face of a propaganda poster.
• I’ll admit I found it nice that they did a sketch showcasing their female cast, but couldn’t they have bothered to make it, you know, funny?
• As I mentioned last time, after the apple farm sketch in the season premiere, we’ve suddenly gotten a whole bunch of Aidy Bryant/Kate McKinnon team ups. This is another one of them, in which they spend the whole sketch speaking in annoying voices. I like to call these types of sketches “funny accent sketches”, where the only joke is how WACKY the characters’ voices are!
1/5
Fake Commercial: Duolingo for Talking to Children
A new Duolingo app for childless parents who want to relate to kids.
• This had a pretty good concept, but, like most good ideas on the show as of late, they do nothing creative with it.
• A big problem with this sketch is how talky it is. There’s too much explanation about how the app works, so, when they finally get to the demonstration, there’s only 15 seconds left in the commercial.
1/5
Sketch: New Paint
Things escalate when a woman (Aidy Bryant) is asked about the cost of her Farrow and Ball paint.
• Alternate title: PLEASE BUY FARROW AND BALL, YOU GUYS!!!
• That’s right, this is another sketch that only exists to serve as an advertisement for someone else’s product, in this case, Farrow and Ball.
• Aside from that, the only joke in this is that Bryant keeps pronouncing the word “color” as “colour”. Get it? Because Farrow and Ball is a British company, they spell it differently!!!! I don’t know what’s sadder; the fact that the writers thought this would be a good idea for a sketch, or the fact that there are people out there (looking at you, Reddit!) who thought this would be funny?
0/5 (yeesh, look at all these poor ratings)
Sketch: Hero Dog Press Conference
Kellyanne Conway holds a press conference to celebrate Conan, the heroic service dog who helped take down an ISIS leader.
• Another thing SNL has been doing a lot this season are live animal sketches. The first one they did (I forget what it was) featured Cecily Strong getting attacked, so I guess they thought, “Hey, we gotta do more of these! Live animals are so unpredictable!!!” So, they did, and, they’ve quickly lost their novelty.
• To make matters worse, this one also has McKinnon’s awful Kellyanne Conway in it, reappearing after a long absence since Season 43. I didn’t miss her at all.
• To make matters EVEN WORSE, instead of treating the dog with respect (even though it isn’t the real one in the sketch, for obvious reasons), they spend the whole time mocking him with cliche dog jokes, ending with another swipe at Trump because ORANGE MAN BAD!!!
1/5
Short Film: Corporate Nightmare
Some punk employees rebel against their workplace...in song!!!
• It seems like half of the short films this season have been musical. This one has the added bonus of being confusingly unfunny as well.
1/5
Musical Performance: “Orphans”
Weekend Update (Featuring Riley Jenson, and Vaneta and Wylene Starkie)
• Let’s see, Trump, Giuliani, Trump, more Trump, comparing Trump to a convicted rapist, same old Weekend Update.
• Melissa Villaseñor debuts a new character named Riley Jenson, who claims to be a genius. It eventually transpires that she doesn’t really know all that much...or something. This was a total snooze fest, and I guess the writers thought so too, because Riley has yet to return to the show (as of the writing of this post).
• Che’s Harvey Weinstein joke was actually pretty funny. That is the first positive thing I have said in this entire review.
• Are you fucking kidding me, SNL? Another Bryant/McKinnon team up?!!?? Good lord! This time, they’re playing those Smokery Farms ladies from Season 44’s John Mulaney episode again. I don’t see why they did, because this was just as unfunny as their last appearance.
1/5
Sketch: Hungry Jury
A jury tries to deliberate on empty stomachs.
• What a fucking joke. If I wasn’t already convinced that this episode was a total waste, this sketch confirmed it. I won’t even give it the dignity of a proper review, because this shit doesn’t deserve one.
• Bowen Yang’s role as the gay bailiff did absolutely nothing for me. Come on, give this guy something to do that isn’t gay, SNL!
0/5
Sketch: Proposition
A woman (Stewart) tries to make a kinky proposition to an elderly couple (Kenan Thompson and Ego Nwodim)
• An extremely boring sketch that didn’t need to exist. That’s all I will say here because I didn’t understand it at all.
• The second sketch in a row that features Yang playing a gay character. At this point, I swear they keep doing this to annoy me.
1/5
Musical Performance: “Everyday Life”
• At least Coldplay’s performances have put me in a good mood. Too bad they’re not enough to save this awful episode.
Sketch: Stargazing
A family looks for constellations in the sky, but they can only find sexual ones.
• The episode ends on an awful note with this trash. This is yet another sketch that is entirely based on sex jokes. “Duh-huh, the constellations look like they’re having sex! Aren’t we clever and funny?!!??” No, you’re not. You’re embarrassing and juvenile.
• I can’t even find this sketch online. Perhaps the writers (or NBC) thought it was a piece of shit, too?
0/5
Final thoughts: Oh my fucking God. I was already expecting this episode to be terrible based on the host, but I wasn’t expecting it to be THIS bad. While Stewart wasn’t the worst thing about this, she certainly didn’t help, either, as all of her performances were extremely bland (as usual).
Best sketches: Coldplay’s performances, the Weinstein joke in Weekend Update
Worst sketches: EVERYTHING ELSE
Final grade: 0.5/5
My next review will be the Will Ferrell/King Princess episode, one of the most disappointing episodes ever.
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