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Originally Posted by Chip Niche
It's getting too trendy to hate on SNL at this point.
I thought last night's episode was actually pretty good. Monologue was good. Host did well in every sketch. Most sketches worked. I liked the Schaal impression as well (wish they would expand that). The Mooney/Bennett piece was hilarious. Update was decent as per.
Honestly, at some point we have to stop holding them up to our impossible to reach nostalgic standards of the mid to late 90s golden era.... or whichever era you subscribe to.
People should really watch old SNLs some time. We remember the great sketches but the show has always been hit or miss at best -- it's just the nature of the beast. The main reason to watch it (for me at least) is to enjoy watching a group of people try to put on a show so quickly.
I do think the writing and Weekend Update is a little worse now than before, but the cast is pretty strong and I don't find it notably worse than previous eras of the show. People calling it "irrelevant" is also pretty amusing when last season felt like the most culturally relevant the show has ever been possibly (mostly due to Trump-related stuff that I personally didn't think was amazing, but still).