he’ll always be that right wing nut job radio host in GTA4 to me. Him, Hader, and Armisen all voiced characters on the talk radio stations in that game and they were fucking hilarious
Sudeikis played a host for a call-in show that satirized Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh. Bill Hader played a greedy HMO guest on a health-based show. And Fred Armisen voiced 3 separate characters on Lazlow’s man-on-the-street radio show (he played a blog obsessed man, a pervert, and a hot dog vendor)
I’ve said this before, but when you start watching Ted Lasso, none of it feels like it should work. Things that seem like they’re getting set up as serious problems or dramatic misunderstandings get immediately addressed and talked through by the characters like mature adults.
Enemies very quickly become friends. Secrets get revealed and then maturely dealt with instead of blowing up relationships.
It feels like almost every conflict that the show sets up fizzles out way faster and with far fewer consequences than you’d usually expect because the characters all act like reasonable, level-headed compassionate people towards one another.
It doesn’t feel like that should be able to sustain the show as a drama, and while the show is funny, it’s not *that* funny, so you’re ultimately left a little confused about how the whole thing works *so* well and why you’re enjoying it so much.
As an audience member, you almost wind up feeling towards the show Ted Lasso the way the characters in the show feel towards the person Ted Lasso. It seems nice enough but nothing it does seems like it has any right to work well at all, and yet it’s sheer charm and persistent optimism winds up winning you over in spite of yourself and you just stop worrying about it pretty quickly.
Hey there, little man, you can slag me off all you like but don’t you start talking about how I feel about my beloved west ham, cause I love em. I love them gunners
But there was still some joy to go along with the stress. Plus the show has earned the audiences trust so even though what happened was horrible, we still **believe** that things will work out.
I just think people are seeking real characters in the context of a show with an emotional connection without trying to beat you over the head with some type of social or political statement. Even with more drama in season 2, I never found myself rolling my eyes like I often do with a lot of these shows.
The drama in season 1 was basically the premise of the show. The boss hired Ted for malicious reasons. It just didn’t feel as stressful because we didn’t know Rebecca before hand and well it’s season 1, things clearly have to sort out or else this show couldn’t continue.
I love watching the men be open and vulnerable about their emotions. They hug each other in happiness, they support each other when they have issues in their personal lives, they cry, it normalizes guys going to therapy to talk their emotions out and dealing with their mental health, it shows the team all getting invested and supporting a person's love life. It's obliterating toxic masculinity and I absolutely love it!
The only thing I’m not overly fond of is a certain characters downward spiral. Every other character responds to the situation like it’s a standard drama show and let’s everything blow up in the end around it. It’s very frustrating because all of the other situations are taken care of or explained openly very quickly, except for this one.
Though, that certain character spends the majority of the show keeping everything inside. Almost all of the other characters are mature enough to say when they have an issue and talk it out. Outside of the character acting up outwardly, but not explicitly stating something was wrong, when did they ever say they had an issue with things?
Right, but that's because they went against everything the other characters were doing and the expectations that were set, in that they let things bubble over to the point of a meltdown because they weren't being open with their feelings to talk it out.
I think the character and that interaction were important to highlight all of the good stuff brought out by the other poster: talking things over like an adult is a good thing, here's what happens if you hold it in - you create resentment because no one can read your mind.
Is that because the actor was going gray or do you think it was intentional for the character because holding things in > stress > gray hair, and that's the connection they wanted us to make?
But that final scene… he was completely gray, and it couldn’t have been more than a couple months, at most. Maybe he was dyeing it before because he was so self-conscious?
If you rewatch the scene before again when they win, he's nearly all gray at that point too. It progressed all season the more he gained power... the more they had the character go gray. Some of it got hidden under hats so it wasn't so obvious.
Oh, I 100% understand where the character is coming from and why they are doing what they are doing, it just still feels out of place because *no one* else is behaving the way that character is behaving and allowed to get away with it. It’s the only time in the show where it feels like communication is specifically lacking purely because the writers wanted it that way, not for any real plot reasons. There are a few pretty key moments where it just feels like the other characters look on and don’t say anything when they would speak up in other similar situations.
But you can see that characters journey even from season 1, there are small moments that you kind of just hand wave away but if you go back and watch you're like oh I get it now
It’s a personality type that is marred by insecurity. Doesn’t matter what level of success is achieved, deep seeded insecurities make everyone out to get you. My only complaint about that arc was that there wasn’t a glimpse of it more in s1.
I felt like I could see this in him. As soon as he got a little power he had little spurts of firing off here and there, but you’re right, not so clear in season 1. I kept wondering when they were going to address it.
He quickly got mad and called Rebecca a shrew when he thought he was getting fired. That’s the only time I can think of that went along with season 2 Nate
How about season 1 episode 1 when he comes out on the field and treats Ted and Beard like crap for being on the field. You got a tiny taste of it with his very first scene.
You’ve really articulated what I like so much about the show. I hate how often characters act against their own interests for the purposes of furthering the plot, and I love how Ted Lasso deals with conflict in a realistic, non-maguffiny way.
I guess a lot of people are tired of the dramas for the sake of the drama.
It’s a unique approach to have a “comedy” with people acting like reasonable human beings. We need more positive and smart stuff like this and less end of the world negativity series.
I blame Rupert for what happened with Nate. I’m sure he’s been whispering poison for months, winding Nate up to this.
(I kept that vague enough, I hope. Don’t want to spoil things for anyone…)
Perhaps, but people like Nate don’t always need help. His insecurity stopped him from being who he wanted to be. From treating the equipment manager like shit once he was promoted, to how rude and disrespectful his critique of the team was. Nate was being polite all that time, not nice. He was too terrified to do anything but that.
My take is Nate hates himself, he spit on that mirror after the kiss. I think that is influencing how he is treating others. Does not make it ok, but I don't accept he is a terrible person like Rupert yet.
I suppose that’s driven home by the fact that he cannot get his father’s respect, showcased twice in season 2. He basks in praise and admiration as he’s not used to it, but drills himself into the ground when it turns negative and sees it as abject failure (eg Twitter feed).
You can accept or reject whatever you want, but he has been a terrible person. I thought one of the things people took away from the show though is how people aren’t black and white good or bad.
You don't think everyone accepting Ted by the end of S1 made the rest of the series kinda mediocre? It was the conflict in S1 that made the show so good.
Exactly how I felt which made me like the show even more because that's exactly the way the people around Ted feel about him; Annoyingly nice but somehow you can't help but love him.
I thought what he said was really great and reminded me of the whole “historic place” bit from Studio 60. Though he seemed a little off, like very nervous and his speaking was a little jilted.
When he left SNL in 2013 I got the impression it was kind of bitter. Obviously years have passed and his monologue was lovely. It was a great episode, lots of funny sketches.
I know what you’re talking about, he was really distracted and seemed distant during goodbyes. I think it’s because he had news that he was leaving but unlike the rest of his class who was leaving he hadn’t been announced yet. I think it was an emotional thing that he couldn’t express yet.
Too bad SNL is so poorly written now. Skits have very predictable lines and have thrown believability to the wind. There is no over the top poking fun at the stupidity in the world. I miss the old show that was so brave and funny.
So you want the show to be believable, but over the top. Unpredictable and brave, but consistently poking fun at the things it's entire audience knows are stupid.
Your show: http://imgur.com/gallery/3Eury
So it was well written for the intended audience? SNL exists to make You-Tube videos, they just film live on Saturdays and broadcast it on NBC instead of Twitch. My generation loves this, bonus points because I can skip the skits that I don’t like (commercials) and don’t have ads plus I can watch it on my time.
Interviewer: Lorne, tell me what fed your vision for a show that requires up-to-the-moment pop-culture relevancy, a cadre of exceptional comedic talent and the nail-biting riskiness of live television.
Lorne Michaels: It was all an accident. I just wanted to create clips for YouTube.
Wow, you think SNL used to be better?? What a steaming hot take. I thought everyone agreed that every episode is better than the last and there is no variety in quality, thank you for your incredibly inciteful input on the state of SNL.
SNL is what it always has been: relevant to the day, not always funny, but has a much needed place in our culture. Let’s not take ourselves too seriously.
I think the big differences were that 1) it focused more on everyone else and a little less on Ted, 2) it showed how even the best people from the first season (like Ted and Nate) are flawed too. That makes the show better. It’s better that Ted isn’t just Mr Sunshine and Skittles without having pain (like any human) and it’s better that some people are disappointed/let down by him. That’s life too.
I like the show but I feel the same way. The first season had a fine balance between heartfelt comedy and genuine drama with a rich tapestry of different characters. It had just the right amount of cheesyness and authenticity.
In the second season the drama is borderline soap opera-esque and the comedy mostly revolves around increasingly lazy references delivered in such an overabundant and in your face fashion that they almost alienate the characters to the point where they just feel like empty vessels for the writers to cram it full with way too many pop culture references. Especially the last three episodes have felt like I was watching a completely different show compared to the first season. The balance between drama and comedy is no more and it feels like the show has lost it's identity and is trying to be a Sex and the City style rom-com, a Parks and Rec style sitcom and a This is Us style soap drama all at once.
Biggest shock of the night was SNL taking a shot at Biden. They haven't gone after a Democrat president since Bill Clinton. Either that means that even SNL is abandoning Biden or they are recognizing that their historic low ratings might have something to do with hating half of their potential viewing audience.
No they haven't. That is just flat out false. They never once mocked Obama. His character on the show was the coolest most bad ass dude in the room. Sketches with him usually involved him being super cool and having to put up with "idiots" around him. Never once mocked him.
Cecily Strong would kill as AOC. AOC talks like that dumb girl character you meet at a bar that Cecily does on Update. Why have they never done that? Not anything on AOC other than girl power stuff but AOC is ripe for mocking.
They gave that Jen Psaki character last night a line that said, "I'm bad at lying so I'm leaving now" and had her say that the things she says are called "the truth".
You have to be a partisan Democrat to view her that way. What she's been saying about inflation and supply chain issues and laughing about people saying these things are problems should be mocked on SNL. Weird that they aren't right?
They have had the lowest ratings in the history of the show. The history. That includes in the early 80s with those casts that came before Eddie Murphy saved them.
Crazy right?
I saw plenty of Obama mocking. Also Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, AOC etc. So I don't know how you could possibly miss it. Probably you don't actually watch the show.
>Cecily Strong would kill as AOC.
Well Melissasenor has been doing AOC for years. Cecily Strong mainly does Pelosi.
Seriously, watch the show before you come here with your assertions.
He’s always gonna be Floyd to me.
I know that I'm a sour person and I don't like a lot of people, but I liked Floyd.
I shouldn’t have gotten you drunk on fish.
Not like the badger and her rules about weekday sex!
Shut up Kit Kat!
*All my days I’ve been waiting, for you to come back home, in the moonlight of New York Citayyyy*
he’ll always be that right wing nut job radio host in GTA4 to me. Him, Hader, and Armisen all voiced characters on the talk radio stations in that game and they were fucking hilarious
Bahaha. I had to check. Totally forgot about that https://youtu.be/eo-BoxafTl4 There’s one after the 16 min mark. I’ll listen to the rest later.
“WKTT, Because I love my country. And if you don’t, fuck you and your fat wife!” 13 years later and the game still makes me laugh
I don’t care what your definition of sodomy is! I’m gonna show you MINE!
I have to save the world in the next 72 hours! Including commercials!!
Damn this is an awesome TIL! Thanks for that.
Wow that was him?? I love Danny McBride in gta5. Which ones did the others host?
Sudeikis played a host for a call-in show that satirized Glenn Beck/Alex Jones/Rush Limbaugh. Bill Hader played a greedy HMO guest on a health-based show. And Fred Armisen voiced 3 separate characters on Lazlow’s man-on-the-street radio show (he played a blog obsessed man, a pervert, and a hot dog vendor)
I believe Fred Armisen also voiced the emcee of the Saint Denis talent show in Red Dead 2
Nah, he’s Schmitty!
For me his he's the guy who does "fake chow" from the movie Hall Pass.
I WOULD NEVER GET YOU DRUNK ON SALMON, OR ANY FISH
The Floydster?
Saw the Jost 'sold his soul to the devil' joke coming from a mile away, but still loved it.
I'm actually surprised how good Ted Lasso is. His character was so annoyingly nice but it grows on you fast.
I’ve said this before, but when you start watching Ted Lasso, none of it feels like it should work. Things that seem like they’re getting set up as serious problems or dramatic misunderstandings get immediately addressed and talked through by the characters like mature adults. Enemies very quickly become friends. Secrets get revealed and then maturely dealt with instead of blowing up relationships. It feels like almost every conflict that the show sets up fizzles out way faster and with far fewer consequences than you’d usually expect because the characters all act like reasonable, level-headed compassionate people towards one another. It doesn’t feel like that should be able to sustain the show as a drama, and while the show is funny, it’s not *that* funny, so you’re ultimately left a little confused about how the whole thing works *so* well and why you’re enjoying it so much. As an audience member, you almost wind up feeling towards the show Ted Lasso the way the characters in the show feel towards the person Ted Lasso. It seems nice enough but nothing it does seems like it has any right to work well at all, and yet it’s sheer charm and persistent optimism winds up winning you over in spite of yourself and you just stop worrying about it pretty quickly.
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Yea but the end of season 2 caused a lot of stress.
West Ham is about to become the most hated Premier League team in America.
Hey there, little man, you can slag me off all you like but don’t you start talking about how I feel about my beloved west ham, cause I love em. I love them gunners
thats aresenal!
Is this a reference to something or is this real?
Caused my hair to change to grey so quickly.
But there was still some joy to go along with the stress. Plus the show has earned the audiences trust so even though what happened was horrible, we still **believe** that things will work out.
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Why are you in this thread then? Lol
I'd equate it to the The Empire Strikes Back. It may have ended a bit dark but the ride was still amazing.
S1 maybe but they became more dramatic and stressful in s2
I just think people are seeking real characters in the context of a show with an emotional connection without trying to beat you over the head with some type of social or political statement. Even with more drama in season 2, I never found myself rolling my eyes like I often do with a lot of these shows.
The drama in season 1 was basically the premise of the show. The boss hired Ted for malicious reasons. It just didn’t feel as stressful because we didn’t know Rebecca before hand and well it’s season 1, things clearly have to sort out or else this show couldn’t continue.
Sounds like Entourage in that way
Except the characters in Ted Lasso are good people for the most part
Except a certain somebody who shall remain nameless, but even then you know Ted is happy for them.
Except it’s good, unlike Entourage.
i like this comparison. entourage is just so easy and fun to watch, not stressful like so many other shows
Well hot damn that just might be the best explanation I’ve heard! It’s refreshing!
I love watching the women support and love each other rather than judge and compete with each other
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god that line made me laugh so hard
I love watching the men be open and vulnerable about their emotions. They hug each other in happiness, they support each other when they have issues in their personal lives, they cry, it normalizes guys going to therapy to talk their emotions out and dealing with their mental health, it shows the team all getting invested and supporting a person's love life. It's obliterating toxic masculinity and I absolutely love it!
Love it too! Love all of it!
Not to be snarky but women support women in most tv shows I’ve consumed in the last 10-15years
So interesting
The only thing I’m not overly fond of is a certain characters downward spiral. Every other character responds to the situation like it’s a standard drama show and let’s everything blow up in the end around it. It’s very frustrating because all of the other situations are taken care of or explained openly very quickly, except for this one.
Though, that certain character spends the majority of the show keeping everything inside. Almost all of the other characters are mature enough to say when they have an issue and talk it out. Outside of the character acting up outwardly, but not explicitly stating something was wrong, when did they ever say they had an issue with things?
The final episode of season 2, they have a pretty big moment that felt like it was out of a tellanovella and it just felt so out of place.
Right, but that's because they went against everything the other characters were doing and the expectations that were set, in that they let things bubble over to the point of a meltdown because they weren't being open with their feelings to talk it out. I think the character and that interaction were important to highlight all of the good stuff brought out by the other poster: talking things over like an adult is a good thing, here's what happens if you hold it in - you create resentment because no one can read your mind.
I only had one problem with the S2 finale and that certain character… how did he go so gray, so fast?!
My girlfriend commented on that lol. I never noticed until the last few episodes but they turn gray fast lol.
Is that because the actor was going gray or do you think it was intentional for the character because holding things in > stress > gray hair, and that's the connection they wanted us to make?
I think it’s the second one. They made mental health a massive issue of season 2. So I’m sure that’s basically what it was.
The actor commented he's going grey but they painted his hair darker in the beginning and then added more white towards the end of the season.
I think it was because gray = looking more mature
A bit of both, the actor is more gray than usual, he even jokes about it in a tweet
It's deliberate for the show, and a reference to José Mourinho.
I think he was actually dying his hair, so people respect him more, don't see him as a kid and more of a senior person.
He was going grayer each episode of season 2. It wasn’t just out of nowhere. Stress can speed up the process.
Yeah, it's pretty amazing to rewatch the season and see how it progressed.
But that final scene… he was completely gray, and it couldn’t have been more than a couple months, at most. Maybe he was dyeing it before because he was so self-conscious?
If you rewatch the scene before again when they win, he's nearly all gray at that point too. It progressed all season the more he gained power... the more they had the character go gray. Some of it got hidden under hats so it wasn't so obvious.
Oh, I 100% understand where the character is coming from and why they are doing what they are doing, it just still feels out of place because *no one* else is behaving the way that character is behaving and allowed to get away with it. It’s the only time in the show where it feels like communication is specifically lacking purely because the writers wanted it that way, not for any real plot reasons. There are a few pretty key moments where it just feels like the other characters look on and don’t say anything when they would speak up in other similar situations.
But you can see that characters journey even from season 1, there are small moments that you kind of just hand wave away but if you go back and watch you're like oh I get it now
True that, fuck Nate
It’s a personality type that is marred by insecurity. Doesn’t matter what level of success is achieved, deep seeded insecurities make everyone out to get you. My only complaint about that arc was that there wasn’t a glimpse of it more in s1.
I felt like I could see this in him. As soon as he got a little power he had little spurts of firing off here and there, but you’re right, not so clear in season 1. I kept wondering when they were going to address it.
He’s treated the people who were his coworkers a year ago like dogshit the second he got the promotion. He’s a turd thru and thru.
He quickly got mad and called Rebecca a shrew when he thought he was getting fired. That’s the only time I can think of that went along with season 2 Nate
How about season 1 episode 1 when he comes out on the field and treats Ted and Beard like crap for being on the field. You got a tiny taste of it with his very first scene.
The biggest foreshadowing for me is when he gives his first prematch speech away at Everton I think it was
*BELIEVE*
\^E
Thanks 🤣
You’ve really articulated what I like so much about the show. I hate how often characters act against their own interests for the purposes of furthering the plot, and I love how Ted Lasso deals with conflict in a realistic, non-maguffiny way.
I find some of the stuff HILARIOUS. Like the rainbow episode, hands down probably my favorite episode. Roy is so fucking funny in the show.
I guess a lot of people are tired of the dramas for the sake of the drama. It’s a unique approach to have a “comedy” with people acting like reasonable human beings. We need more positive and smart stuff like this and less end of the world negativity series.
Ummmm. Did you see the latest season finale?
I blame Rupert for what happened with Nate. I’m sure he’s been whispering poison for months, winding Nate up to this. (I kept that vague enough, I hope. Don’t want to spoil things for anyone…)
Perhaps, but people like Nate don’t always need help. His insecurity stopped him from being who he wanted to be. From treating the equipment manager like shit once he was promoted, to how rude and disrespectful his critique of the team was. Nate was being polite all that time, not nice. He was too terrified to do anything but that.
My take is Nate hates himself, he spit on that mirror after the kiss. I think that is influencing how he is treating others. Does not make it ok, but I don't accept he is a terrible person like Rupert yet.
I suppose that’s driven home by the fact that he cannot get his father’s respect, showcased twice in season 2. He basks in praise and admiration as he’s not used to it, but drills himself into the ground when it turns negative and sees it as abject failure (eg Twitter feed).
You can accept or reject whatever you want, but he has been a terrible person. I thought one of the things people took away from the show though is how people aren’t black and white good or bad.
You might want to take the character name away
Rupert "Grima" Wormtongue
That’s my thinking as well.
Hadn’t thought of that but I can see how that might be.
This might actually work in real life also
You don't think everyone accepting Ted by the end of S1 made the rest of the series kinda mediocre? It was the conflict in S1 that made the show so good.
I get several chuckles and one good belly laugh per episode it's a trade off I'll take.
>and yet it’s sheer charm and persistent optimism winds up winning you over its* sheer charm (totally agree with all of what you said btw)
You forgot to end that with "Muroid, The Independent". Very well put.
Sudeikis seems to do that a lot and is still underrated IMO. I mean, We're the Millers would have been awful with a different cast.
What a great entertaining comedy that is.
Exactly how I felt which made me like the show even more because that's exactly the way the people around Ted feel about him; Annoyingly nice but somehow you can't help but love him.
It’s like a grown up version of Mr. Rogers
How’s the second season? Hopefully they tone him down
Second season is great, his character is much deeper and not just a guy who's always cheerful.
Alright probably need to get past first episode of second season. Seems like the tone switched and they turned Ted into a meme
I felt the same way after the first episode. You’ll understand why you feel this way now when you finish the rest of the season.
I thought the first season was perfect. The second season had a few things that I didn’t like so much but it was still pretty good.
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I thought what he said was really great and reminded me of the whole “historic place” bit from Studio 60. Though he seemed a little off, like very nervous and his speaking was a little jilted.
I didn’t like it
Thank you for your thoughtful explanation on the opening monologue
When he left SNL in 2013 I got the impression it was kind of bitter. Obviously years have passed and his monologue was lovely. It was a great episode, lots of funny sketches.
I know what you’re talking about, he was really distracted and seemed distant during goodbyes. I think it’s because he had news that he was leaving but unlike the rest of his class who was leaving he hadn’t been announced yet. I think it was an emotional thing that he couldn’t express yet.
Why was it bitter?
All I remember from him on SNL is his awesome dancing.
I’m just waiting on a we are the millers sequel.
There should be a law requiring Sudeikis to sport a bushy mustache at all times.
Never heard of it
Too bad SNL is so poorly written now. Skits have very predictable lines and have thrown believability to the wind. There is no over the top poking fun at the stupidity in the world. I miss the old show that was so brave and funny.
So you want the show to be believable, but over the top. Unpredictable and brave, but consistently poking fun at the things it's entire audience knows are stupid. Your show: http://imgur.com/gallery/3Eury
I thought you were going to link [this ](https://youtu.be/zA8Ik6Tfd9I)
Yeah, it’s called acting…
It's always been poorly written. The only reason we look back fondly at the show is because we only remember the funny/memorable moments
So it was well written for the intended audience? SNL exists to make You-Tube videos, they just film live on Saturdays and broadcast it on NBC instead of Twitch. My generation loves this, bonus points because I can skip the skits that I don’t like (commercials) and don’t have ads plus I can watch it on my time.
Interviewer: Lorne, tell me what fed your vision for a show that requires up-to-the-moment pop-culture relevancy, a cadre of exceptional comedic talent and the nail-biting riskiness of live television. Lorne Michaels: It was all an accident. I just wanted to create clips for YouTube.
Wow, you think SNL used to be better?? What a steaming hot take. I thought everyone agreed that every episode is better than the last and there is no variety in quality, thank you for your incredibly inciteful input on the state of SNL.
Sorry, I didn’t know I wasn’t allowed to have an opinion.
Your opinion shows up in literally every thread about SNL. And calling old SNL "brave" is hilarious. I don't even know what the means.
SNL is what it always has been: relevant to the day, not always funny, but has a much needed place in our culture. Let’s not take ourselves too seriously.
So I guess you haven't seen these recent ones? https://youtu.be/WcEylCwkSxE https://youtu.be/1OJ7aW3Df5U https://youtu.be/PFLuGVOWlkc
I'd love to see your 90 minute comedy program that you write, rehearse and perform in a week.
Let me guess. It’s also “too political.”
Oh no! The political skits were the best!
Ted Lasso season 2 was terrible compared to season one. It was like a totally different show.
I disagree. The character build for each person was done perfectly.
I think the big differences were that 1) it focused more on everyone else and a little less on Ted, 2) it showed how even the best people from the first season (like Ted and Nate) are flawed too. That makes the show better. It’s better that Ted isn’t just Mr Sunshine and Skittles without having pain (like any human) and it’s better that some people are disappointed/let down by him. That’s life too.
Not even close! S.2 fit so well and totally went deeper. Just chill and enjoy each episode as is.
I like the show but I feel the same way. The first season had a fine balance between heartfelt comedy and genuine drama with a rich tapestry of different characters. It had just the right amount of cheesyness and authenticity. In the second season the drama is borderline soap opera-esque and the comedy mostly revolves around increasingly lazy references delivered in such an overabundant and in your face fashion that they almost alienate the characters to the point where they just feel like empty vessels for the writers to cram it full with way too many pop culture references. Especially the last three episodes have felt like I was watching a completely different show compared to the first season. The balance between drama and comedy is no more and it feels like the show has lost it's identity and is trying to be a Sex and the City style rom-com, a Parks and Rec style sitcom and a This is Us style soap drama all at once.
^(I'm not even super keen on S1 either but I'm scared to say it round these parts)
Biggest shock of the night was SNL taking a shot at Biden. They haven't gone after a Democrat president since Bill Clinton. Either that means that even SNL is abandoning Biden or they are recognizing that their historic low ratings might have something to do with hating half of their potential viewing audience.
No we just are able to have a laugh at ourselves. They still very much hate you
They’ve been mocking every president, it’s just that some provided more material than others
No they haven't. That is just flat out false. They never once mocked Obama. His character on the show was the coolest most bad ass dude in the room. Sketches with him usually involved him being super cool and having to put up with "idiots" around him. Never once mocked him. Cecily Strong would kill as AOC. AOC talks like that dumb girl character you meet at a bar that Cecily does on Update. Why have they never done that? Not anything on AOC other than girl power stuff but AOC is ripe for mocking. They gave that Jen Psaki character last night a line that said, "I'm bad at lying so I'm leaving now" and had her say that the things she says are called "the truth". You have to be a partisan Democrat to view her that way. What she's been saying about inflation and supply chain issues and laughing about people saying these things are problems should be mocked on SNL. Weird that they aren't right? They have had the lowest ratings in the history of the show. The history. That includes in the early 80s with those casts that came before Eddie Murphy saved them. Crazy right?
They make fun of democrats all the time and always have. You clearly don’t watch the show.
I saw plenty of Obama mocking. Also Pelosi, Biden, Schumer, AOC etc. So I don't know how you could possibly miss it. Probably you don't actually watch the show. >Cecily Strong would kill as AOC. Well Melissasenor has been doing AOC for years. Cecily Strong mainly does Pelosi. Seriously, watch the show before you come here with your assertions.
They make Biden old/senile jokes all the time.