SNL, with a mostly new cast, has a lot of rebuilding to do : NPR

[Steve Timko]

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1126458971/snl-season-48-premiere-miles-teller-kendrick-lamar 

[PGage]

The woman from The Atlantic (Amanda Wicks) had a more positive take…

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/the-playful-return-of-snl/671632/

…But I disagree with her. I found most of the show lame when not incoherent. Unlike Wicks I thought Kendrick Lamar was one of the few bright spots. 

I’m trying to remember a season when there was such a huge gap between the quality of the sketches and the quality of Weekend Update. I thought Colin Yost and Michael Che really sparkled. I’m not sure if Yost is still the head writer of the show in general, but for whatever reason the intelligence and craft he and Che bring to WU are nowhere to be seen throughout the rest of the show.

On Sun, 2 Oct 2022 at 7:18 PM Steve Timko <steve...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/02/1126458971/snl-season-48-premiere-miles-teller-kendrick-lamar 

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[David Bruggeman]

According to the Wiki, both Jost and Che were listed as head writers of the show from 2017 through the end of last season.

David

[Steve Timko]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022, 10:23 PM PGage <pga...@gmail.com> wrote:

The woman from The Atlantic (Amanda Wicks) had a more positive take…

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/the-playful-return-of-snl/671632/

…But I disagree with her. I found most of the show lame when not incoherent. Unlike Wicks I thought Kendrick Lamar was one of the few bright spots. 

I’m trying to remember a season when there was such a huge gap between the quality of the sketches and the quality of Weekend Update.

I liked the cold open and Weekend Update. I watched a few other sketches. They were meh so I stopped after a few. Give them a week or two to get their feet under them.

[M-D November]

The cold open was solid, but that was largely due to Miles Teller's Manning impression. Update was good, and I enjoyed the AMC/Nicole Kidman spot (even though it's long overdue). The contractually obligated game show segment had a few solid jokes.  The rest of the show was hot garbage.

[Dave Sikula]

Any episode that lacks McKinnon and Strong is going to be that much stronger. (I was, frankly, astounded at the uproar not having the latter's names in the credits caused. Parenthetically, the idea of Strong doing a one-woman show that relies on portraying a number of different characters is gob-smacking.)

The thing that most struck me about the episode (other than the usual ineptitude) was the number of sketches that were sponsored: we had the poop bears, the hamburger place, the app, and the movie theatre chain. Add to those Update and the musical numbers I FFed through and it's a very thin gruel.

--Dave Sikula