Overall Thoughts on the Season: Season 48 was certainly a unique one. On one hand, it was one of the many transitions/new era seasons in SNL’s history, with so many big names departing the show and others replacing/trying to fill their places, as well as many writers trying different approaches of humor as the season …
April 15, 2023 – Ana de Armas / Karol G (S48 E18)
Cold Opening - First Warm Day Of The Year Arrivals Show Interesting to see a non-political, New York-centric cold opening parodying the usual Central Park characters. James’ pervert look, with that fake third arm, is hilarious. Seeing him, of all cast members, playing such a very non-James role already made me laugh. This surprisingly turns …
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April 8, 2023 – Molly Shannon / Jonas Brothers (S48 E17)
Cold Opening - The Last Supper A certainly interesting way to begin an SNL episode with. Although, I can tell already tell this will have a twist to it. Ok, here now comes James’ Trump for the second week in a row. Lovely. Hey at least James is getting airtime right from the episode’s start, …
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April 1, 2023 – Quinta Brunson / Lil Yachty (S48 E16)
Cold Opening - Trump Indictment As expected, the cold open starts with our obligatory Trump indictment coverage. James’ performance remains as strong as ever, though the tell-don’t-show approach in this cold open, much like the previous Trump-starring one continues to waste his talents. Ok, the bit about Trump promoting his album, which he recorded with …
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March 11, 2023 – Jenna Ortega / The 1975 (S48 E15)
Cold Opening - Access Hollywood Oscars Red Carpet Edition Wow, it feels like ages since we last got a celebrity-centric cold opening. I believe the last one was the Depp vs. Heard cold opening during the homestretch of last season. Marcello & Heidi are barely even attempting to impersonate who they are supposedly playing, but …
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March 4, 2023 – Travis Kelce / Kelsea Ballerini (S48 E14)
Cold Opening - Fox & Friends They are still trying to make this recurring trio work? These lost it back during their original run several seasons ago. I’ll say that Bowen is no Bobby Moynihan when it comes to playing an idiot spewing random one-liners. The homoerotic portion about Hannity’s talk about Giuliani being “hot” …
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February 25, 2023 – Woody Harrelson / Jack White (S48 E13)
Cold Opening - Trump in Ohio I guess it had to happen sooner or later: the return of James’ Donald Trump. Although, I should’ve known a cold open spoofing Trump’s infamous Ohio visit is a given. I don’t want to be salty here, but James has constantly proven that he’s MUCH more than just being …
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February 4, 2023 – Pedro Pascal / Coldplay (S48 E12)
Cold Opening - MSNBC Reports Nothing that surprising with the cold opening addressing the incident with the Chinese spy balloon. Chloe is solid as usual in her anchor role, but what’s with the applause to Kenan’s General Hamilton? Just because he stopped the balloon? Kenan’s doing it a little too much with his stern looks …
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January 28, 2023 – Michael B. Jordan / Lil Baby (S48 E11)
Cold Opening - Classified Documents An interesting, but fitting casting of Mikey as Merrick Garland. Oh, so this is covering the whole Mike Pence classified documents situation. Interesting how we aren’t getting a new Mike Pence impression as well. From the current cast, I could see Michael Longfellow doing quite a decent impression, and impressionist …
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January 21, 2023 – Aubrey Plaza / Sam Smith (S48 E10)
Thoughts on the Season Thus Far: Since I’ve already done my midseason thoughts during my coverage of the first season I’ve done live recaps of (21-22), I’ll probably continue doing these for the seasons ahead. This season has already garnered much division at times from the fan community in general, in particular when it comes …
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