There are a lot of SNL sketches I love and could rewatch a thousand times, which is why I keep watching the show, but GOOD GOD do they miss the mark again and again.
I liked the cold open in the last episode a lot, I loved Marcello‘s Weekend Update segment and Update in general, I smiled at the Eyes sketch.
But GOOD GOD MAN.
I did not expect a Try Guys sketch to rile me up this much (because I did not expect a Try Guys sketch at all), but you must do something incredibly wrong to leave me with an aftertaste comparable to the one I had from the Bill Burr monologue and the Depp vs Heard sketch. How a show can roll out incredibly progressive and feminist sketches again and again and then act like that shit is fair game is beyond me. It‘s not „balance“ either- it‘s pandering.
I hated this sketch (there are plenty of other people who have already explained why) and while 90% of people who watched it had the same reaction, there are still somehow multiple news articles praising it.
Imo, this just goes to show how the media industry works.
This sketch was by far not the worst one SNL has ever done (making fun of Whitney Houston and later Brittany Murphy for addictions (or, in Murphy‘s case, an ALLEGED addiction) take the cake), but they really put out a sketch mocking a company for showing accountability concerning inappropriate workplace behaviour in the year 2022.
Who the hell thought this was a good idea?
(I mean, we all know who, but still.)
