mafdenver

I thought this was going to be a documentary with the actual SNL archive footage. No. It's one of the latest movie fads of faking reality. (The Offer is the same - actors recreating the lead-up to filming The Godfather.) While I somewhat enjoyed Saturday Night Live The Movie, it was slow. One definitely has to know who's who to enjoy it even a little bit. They certainly found a lot of performers who looked like the people they were portraying - enough to follow along. But, anyone who watched the very first episode in October 1975 will get a major chill from the film's last line. The first time fake Chevy Chase says, "LIVE FROM NEW YORK! IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!"

I loved Season 1 for the story, the scenery, the acting. Season 2 - um, okay. Season 3 - oh my. Set two years later, no one has moved on. It's a re-hash of the previous story plots. The unlikeables are all there - plus they add the awful father and sister. I get infuriated on behalf of our heroine for how everyone treats her - but then she acts so stupidly. Enabling bad behavior and in general, being everyone's doormat. After slogging through six identical episodes, the ending was an "are you freakin' kidding me!" cliffhanger. If they make a Season 4, I'm not going back to see what happens. I envision more of the same and even more of the buffoon Mussolini's black shirts.

It has become a series trope. If a show becomes a hit, Meryl Streep shows up. Acting like ... Meryl Streep. DRAMAAA ham & cheese doing the world a favor; dominating the story line, trying to steal every scene. Shirley McClain and Amy Schumer in Season 2 were bad enough. In Season 3, we have awful music, unlikeable characters, and the writers have strayed far from the charming premise of Season 1. The building was a character (maybe the best one) in the first two seasons. Now it's just a set on a sound stage. Martin and Short seem desperate rather than funny; Gomez's mumbling monotone no longer adorable.