Cold Open: Community Affairs
Parents discuss college protests.
• “You’re watching NY1, which means your wi-fi is down.” UGGGHHHH!!!!
• Do my eyes deceive me? Is that Longfellow I see with a lead role????
• Kenan’s role here is another typical fast-talking Kenan role that he can play in his sleep by now.
• I’m also disheartened to see Longfellow fumbling over his lines. Maybe he’s just a little rusty since he hasn’t had a lead role in forever.
• Yeah, this cold open is just a bunch of nothing. Already a bad sign that we’re gonna have a rough episode…
Monologue
Dua Lipa takes questions from the audience.
• I like it when we see the host’s parents.
• Really? A Q&A monologue? Something tells me this was a rough week backstage.
• Bowen is the only person in the cast who doesn’t look funny in a mustache. He just looks gayer than usual.
• Random and pointless appearance from Heidi as the South Dakota governor.
Sketch: Young Spicy
An up and coming rapper needs help with his producer tag.
• This sketch from the Ana DeArmas episode is now recurring for some reason. The only thing I can remember about that sketch is that it had Kenan shouting like an annoying stereotype.
• Eh, this isn’t the worst thing I’ve seen all season, but it’s unremarkable.
• Ego: “Ooh, Spicy, why you DMin’ high schoolers?” Okay. I will admit that this line gave me a laugh.
• I also got a chuckle from Ego asking why he’s so limp-wristed.
Film: The Anomalous Man
A young lady’s Elephant Man-esque lover is sexting behind her back.
• Gorgeous sets and costume design here.
• Perfect casting of James as an English nobleman.
• This actually starts out pretty promising, but then we actually see the titular Anomalous Man, and it turns out to be Sarah in drag yet again. I don’t care that it’s “deformed” drag, it’s still drag!
• In all fairness, the makeup on Sarah is amazing. You’d swear they actually got Rick Baker or someone to do it!
• Ugh at the twist with the Anomalous Man somehow having a modern day cellphone for “sexting” people.
• I can’t believe they would ruin it like that! Man, Sarah just keeps disappointing me lately. There’s still two episodes left for her to turn it around, but it doesn’t look good.
Sketch: Good Morning Greenville
News anchors obsess over the Kendrick/Drake feud.
• James’ intro song is pretty funny, but that only gives you the false impression that this sketch will be good.
• Heidi and Mikey’s Southern accents are giving me bad vibes, as is the fact that Heidi’s name is “Gail Gohnson”. Despite the Anderlette-esque traits, this sketch was apparently written by Colin Jost and Bryan Tucker.
• I am not a fan of the focus suddenly switching to the Kendrick Lamar/Drake feud, something that I was totally unaware of when this aired, and I still have no idea what it was about, because I don’t give a shit about rap.
• None of the mispronounced rapper names from Mikey and Heidi are making me laugh.
• I did kind of chuckle at Mikey asking the black weatherman (Devon) what his thoughts were, with the implication being that since he’s black, he must like rap.
• “Wanda Wheems”??? This really does feel like an Anderlette sketch.
• Dua’s Southern accent is surprisingly good, but it feels disheartening to see her in this crap.
• Heidi brings back awful memories of the previous episode when she starts cracking up during her “diss track” about Mikey.
• The shot of the weatherman hiding is pretty funny.
• No comment on the scene where the anchors start using stick puppets of Drake and Kendrick.
• Overall, this episode continues to die a horrible death. Devon was the only saving grace here.
Sketch: Sonny Angels
A woman’s obsession with “Sonny Angel” dolls creeps out her new boyfriend.
• Finally, Marcello with a role that’s more like how he used to be.
• Oh no, all of a sudden we have Bowen as one of the dolls. And, unsurprisingly, he’s playing this particular role as you would expect: gay as hell.
• At one point, Marcello blatantly calls attention to the fact that they’re using music from Challengers. Whew, thank goodness they pointed that out, because I thought this was an advertisement for the movie!
• No comment on the bizarrely sexual churro eating scene.
• This episode is just killing me so far!
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