TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[JL21]

Unless i missed something, Better Call Saul wasn't on last night.

It's a Monday show. I think they only did Sunday for the premiere to tie it to the Walking Dead audience.

Tonight, they're doing the first two episodes, and then the new one.

[Freed Roger]

SNL 40 was pretty fun. A longer more star-studded version of all their shows, and true to form it started strong and once it's past the news it's hard as a viewer to stay engaged.

[go birds]

Unless i missed something, Better Call Saul wasn't on last night.

It's a Monday show. I think they only did Sunday for the premiere to tie it to the Walking Dead audience.

Tonight, they're doing the first two episodes, and then the new one.

Oh ha--good to know.

[Freed Roger]

Only negative for SNL was the Californians went on and on. I wish they could have gotten Eddie Murphy involved in a humorous way.

[jim]

Only negative for SNL was the Californians went on and on. I wish they could have gotten Eddie Murphy involved in a humorous way.

That one did go too long. I was thinking the same thing.

[go birds]

Yea what the hell was up with that? it complete jumped the shark with taylor swift and then completely lost me at betty white

[Famous Mortimer]

The dress rehearsal "Californians" sketch, available on Youtube, is one of my favourite SNL sketches ever.

[lukethedrifter]

waaaay too long. i almost bailed because of it.

seemed obvious that Murphy and Chase either don't have the funny anymore or or or I guess just didn't want to play

[Vidor]

The bad:

* That cancer on our culture called Kanye West.
* If you have Paul Simon in your building, you should let him sing "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover", not Miley f*****g Cyrus.
* Too many random celebrities for my taste. What connection do Jack Nicholson and Keith Richards have to "Saturday Night Live"?
* Paul McCartney had more gray hair when he appeared with Chris Farley 20 years ago than he does now.
* Goddamn, I think that "Californians" sketch might still be going on.

The Good

* An absolute pleasure to see Jane Curtin behind the Update desk.
* Similarly, it was really wonderful to see Emma Stone do the Roseanne Roseannadanna character. Gilda Radner is vanishing from our cultural memory, so that was pretty neat.
* I thought most of the live material, other than that awful "Californians" sketch, was pretty good.

[Vidor]

New York Magazine's original review of Saturday Night Live, Oct. 27, 1975.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/New-york ... book_nymag