It seems that after a season of heavy strikers and a 50th anniversary which was completely exalted, the cast and the team of “Saturday Night Live” may have been a little exhausted. For the episode of last night, animated by the recent winner of the Oscars Mikey Madison and with the controversial musical guest Morgan Wallen (who suddenly left the scene during the farewell of the show), the episode had the impression that it was a bit on the automatic pilot, not worth the characters who should not have been brought back and rush through each sketch as if the humor is not worth it.
The night started (as could be expected) with a cold open that highlighted the last blunder of our current government involving the defense secretary Pete Hegseth sending attack plans to a group cat who included the editor of “The Atlantic”. In this version of events, Hegseth, played by Andrew Dismukes, ends up interrupting the text chain of a group of secondary girls. It was an easy laugh, but also extremely dark given the reality of our current circumstances.
Marcello Hernandez has certainly become a star among the actors of this season, but when the first sketch of the night ended up being a spare of his actor teacher, he presented earlier for “SNL 50” when Charli XCX organized, we could not help wondering if the staff of the writers were so tired, they could not simply be taken care of with nothing. It is not that the sketch did not have its funny moments, in particular with Hernandez chewing the landscape, but the vanity of an actor course for advertisements led by an auto-agranda teacher is both too inside the ball and in a way so obvious that each laugh is almost a courtesy.
There were some pre-Pagine bits on “Saturday Night Live” last night, none of which proved this memorable, but the most fun was “Big Dumb Line”. The sketch presented Madison, Chloé Fineman and Bowen Yang as a group of friends linked to the city obsessed with the costs of their days for recently highlighted places on social networks. This is a trend that has become too familiar and the way the bit makes fun of our appetite for these modes is just on the male, especially when it indicates that what these people expect not that may not be worth. An appearance of Joe Jonas to one in the video embittered the overall appeal, but nevertheless, “Big Dumb Line” makes a very relatable quality which reduces us all to the waist.
Not a lot of live sketches have really landed 100% last night and although the “jury duty” is not different, it recalls what it is to watch a live sketch program, with all the unknown misadventures that can take place in the moment by adding to the general humor of the play. The configuration of the bit is no different from the “Tape Audition” videos “SNL” was known to trot, allowing their actors and hosts to embrace their identity skills, but this time, the point is less on what makes the celebrity of their game if Kooky and more on the way in which the excavation itself did so that we can more have a functional judicial system. With Ego Nwodim as a judge, Madison and the members of the distribution, each step in place to offer themselves for the jury, either to do their best to get out of it, to be so out of the walls that having them on a jury would be a crime in itself.
“Saturday Night Live” returns on April 5 with the host Jack Black and the musical guests Elton John and Brandi Carlile.
