Charli XCX served, in multiple senses of the word, as the host and musical guest for an SNL episode that eventually found its footing.
—and maybe she is? Increasingly, it’s difficult to parse what counts as a zeitgeisty pop-culture joke perfect for the most mainstream sketch-variety show on TV, what counts as a cutesy reference for a small sliver of the audience, and whether either of those are worth pursuing with any particular favor.
On one hand, the first proper sketch of the night sequelized the “Domingo” sketch from just one month ago, with Chloe Fineman’s feckless Domingo-courting woo-girl now knocked up as her besties favor her with a song about their latest weekend away together—a combination of old-grinding down of a delightful original sketch and new-era doing this because the sketch apparently blew up on TikTok.
But as the episode went on, it found a little more genuine brattiness, not just in two Charli musical performances – which, yes, do affect this episode’s grade; how better to mark what could be this season’s only instance of me owning every album by the musical guest?! – but in the goofy ensemble sketches: the “Banger Boyz” podcast, which took a sidelong trip into the episode’s best sorta-political material; the extremely silly “It Girl Thanksgiving”; and an ideal night-ending sketch where...
In the end, this really was sort of an It Girl Thanksgiving: gathering up a bunch of obvious stuff and more niche references, doing a bunch of impressions that range from spot-on to one-note, and just trying your best to own it.Once in a while, a sketch that is led by Bowen Yang will feel like it’s just spouting off non-sequiturs for some imagined super-online audience.
• Did that Allstate ad count as Please Don’t Destroy’s short, or did they get cut? Sub-question: Were they cut for time as a tribute to special guest Kyle Mooney?. He’s also now part of SNL’s weird but kind of fun unofficial Season 50 guest roster. We’re a third of the way through the season, and every episode has had at least one, usually two or three, past cast members appearing, often more than once. Carvey has absolutely logged more screen time than several cast members .
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