Saturday Night Live: Pedro Pascal makes a promising debut as host

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The Last of Us star makes the most of uneven material with a game showing in sketches that cover everything from absurd Super Bowl ads to gritty video game adaptations

aturday Night Live opens with MSNBC’s breaking news report about the downing of the Chinese spy balloon. A Pentagon official joins the news desk and fields questions, including how it breached US airspace .

The Big Hollywood Quiz is a game show where contestants compete in showbiz-based trivia. Early questions about All About Eve and MASH prove easy, but once we get to the entertainment of the 2020s, such as Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia, Apple TV’s The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, and the Oscar-nominated Women Talking and To Leslie, everyone is completely stumped. A very clever and incisive look at the how the streaming age has left a giant, empty crater in the center of America’s popular culture.

At a High School assembly, Pascal’s popular teacher, Mr Ben, gives a presentation on student technology use, begging the kids to stop making obsessive fancams dedicated to him. He’s confused by all the new lingo – “You’re in your assembly era,” “You’re father,” “Mid” – means, although he comes around after his girlfriend and fellow teacher shows up towards the end and embraces it.

Later, British rappers Milly Pounds and Shirty come on and drop some confusing bars about the Royal family. The audience is noticeably dead for the segment, probably because they, like most of the viewers on this side of the pond, simply aren’t familiar enough with British rap to get what the joke is .

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