After all, this newfound cultural relevance was always a blessing as well as a curse.
Set in the future, the sketch imagined how President Trump would react to an alien invasion.
The whole thing has gone stale, mostly because it lacks a biting critique.
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Luckily, later parts of the episode indicated better possibilities for the future.
Before that, though, theres the matter of Johanssons monologue.
Instead, the episode mostly highlighted her action-star skills, her singing talents, and general charisma.
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SNLhas really found a groove with these sketches about hypocritical men.
Hilarious, biting stuff.SNLs got something here.
A goodSNLepisode should not have you asking this is still going on?
during thevery first sketch.
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Whatever you do, never doubt the sheer inventive power of Kate McKinnon.
so you can get any traction,SNLshould just dial things way up and go for above-and-beyond absurdist pastiche.
Senator is a pretty hilarious indication of how ridiculous our entire political-media-culture landscape has become.
Thats what I call a comeback.
Her other performance, Liability, was wildly different but equally intense.
Lordes energy single-handedly livened up this mostly stale episode.
His consistency stopped the episode from ever truly capsizing.
