In SNL terms, I think any episode with one great sketch and a couple good ones is automatically a good episode, so this one was good to me, but it could have been better for sure. A couple sketches outright sucked. Bridgers was great, Weekend Update was good as usual.
The biggest pet peeve I have with any episode is sketches where they can't figure out how to close it so they do some completely random nonsense. The COVID Superbowl party was the one this week. Good premise, some funny moments, and then they start eating chili with their hands... alright... weird, but go ahead and end it on that I guess (they pulled a similar type of turn with the song and dance sketch ending)... no wait, now it's Fauci and the whole thing was a PSA... weak, but alright.... end it on that.... no wait, now you're shoehorning in a PSY impersonation and ending it with Gangam Style? Just terrible.
Zillow will go down as one of the funniest and well-executed sketches this year though. So, you know, good with the bad.
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