Mattalamode
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slayer of the foul beast that is snl (I love it I swear) // they/them // pfp by @beckkubrick.bsky.social
Vintage SNL fans, rejoice: my latest assortment of #SNL reviews is finally up for S13! Will the show's comfort in not having to radically reinvent itself for the first time in years serve to its benefit or detriment? Here's what I thought! www.mattalamode.com/2025/04/satu...
April 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Vintage SNL fans, rejoice: my latest assortment of #SNL reviews is finally up for S13! Will the show's comfort in not having to radically reinvent itself for the first time in years serve to its benefit or detriment? Here's what I thought! www.mattalamode.com/2025/04/satu...
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Cold open: It's always surprising to see a host in the cold open, doubly so when the host isn't that well known to many viewers. I wonder how many might think that Mikey is a new cast member. Hopefully this is a good sign of their faith in her as a host. #SNL
March 30, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Cold open: It's always surprising to see a host in the cold open, doubly so when the host isn't that well known to many viewers. I wonder how many might think that Mikey is a new cast member. Hopefully this is a good sign of their faith in her as a host. #SNL
re: Mikey Madison on #SNL. Welp, that was about as I expected: not very good! Or it's a difficult episode, really, because it has so many distinct issues instead of one very glaring one, unless you were to simply generalize it as "weak," which... is valid. But I wanna dig into it a lil bit. (1/9)
March 30, 2025 at 5:52 AM
re: Mikey Madison on #SNL. Welp, that was about as I expected: not very good! Or it's a difficult episode, really, because it has so many distinct issues instead of one very glaring one, unless you were to simply generalize it as "weak," which... is valid. But I wanna dig into it a lil bit. (1/9)
I didn't really write anything on the previous #SNL episode hosted by Lady Gaga but ahead of tonight's ep, I thought I'd say a tiny bit. Mostly that it feels that the show, even when doing admirable things, doesn't fully coalesce. It's kind of hard to tell what a "good" episode should be anymore.
March 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I didn't really write anything on the previous #SNL episode hosted by Lady Gaga but ahead of tonight's ep, I thought I'd say a tiny bit. Mostly that it feels that the show, even when doing admirable things, doesn't fully coalesce. It's kind of hard to tell what a "good" episode should be anymore.
After one long year, my final #SNL review of S13 is up on the Patreon for the unintended season finale, hosted by Judge Reinhold! Check it out: www.patreon.com/posts/2-27-8...
March 12, 2025 at 10:13 PM
After one long year, my final #SNL review of S13 is up on the Patreon for the unintended season finale, hosted by Judge Reinhold! Check it out: www.patreon.com/posts/2-27-8...
This last episode of SNL was kind of batshit in a way that makes me feel a need to sit with it before I can speak in it, because I can't tell if I appreciated it or was frustrated by it. Will circle back tomorrow!
March 9, 2025 at 6:11 AM
This last episode of SNL was kind of batshit in a way that makes me feel a need to sit with it before I can speak in it, because I can't tell if I appreciated it or was frustrated by it. Will circle back tomorrow!
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Cold open: Positive was the lack of cable news cold open. Negative was everything else. Mad libs, Bowen doing his old routine as Vance, incoherent, sluggish tone, Trump listicle, Mike Myers as Austin Musk, Marcello mug. Sky News Australia and the grifter right-wing will love this. Anyone else? #SNL
March 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Cold open: Positive was the lack of cable news cold open. Negative was everything else. Mad libs, Bowen doing his old routine as Vance, incoherent, sluggish tone, Trump listicle, Mike Myers as Austin Musk, Marcello mug. Sky News Australia and the grifter right-wing will love this. Anyone else? #SNL
re: Shane Gillis on #SNL. It's been a sec since I've written about an ep, and in my time off, I missed two especially strong outings for this season: Chalamet and the 50th. I liked both a lot! And I liked this one too, a decent amount. I feel more obligated to qualify that here, though. (1/11)
March 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
re: Shane Gillis on #SNL. It's been a sec since I've written about an ep, and in my time off, I missed two especially strong outings for this season: Chalamet and the 50th. I liked both a lot! And I liked this one too, a decent amount. I feel more obligated to qualify that here, though. (1/11)
Tom Hanks might think that his S13 hosting gig wasn't up to snuff, but what about me? Check out my latest #SNL review over on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/2-20-8...
February 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Tom Hanks might think that his S13 hosting gig wasn't up to snuff, but what about me? Check out my latest #SNL review over on Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/2-20-8...
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Chinese Ai vs US Ai - feels like an appropriate time to share this scene from the show (2018)
January 28, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Chinese Ai vs US Ai - feels like an appropriate time to share this scene from the show (2018)
This week in #SNL on the ol' Patreon: Justine Bateman pays a visit to 8H, and things happen! Are they memorable things? Not really, but I wrote about em! Check it out here: www.patreon.com/posts/2-13-8...
January 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
This week in #SNL on the ol' Patreon: Justine Bateman pays a visit to 8H, and things happen! Are they memorable things? Not really, but I wrote about em! Check it out here: www.patreon.com/posts/2-13-8...
Now I don't want to over-examine the goodnights like it's the goddamn Zapruder film, but I did jokingly ask some friends if we'd see Bowen do a damage control, image-conscious hug with Dave tonight, and the answer is: yep! The joy between these two is palpable. #SNL
January 19, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Now I don't want to over-examine the goodnights like it's the goddamn Zapruder film, but I did jokingly ask some friends if we'd see Bowen do a damage control, image-conscious hug with Dave tonight, and the answer is: yep! The joy between these two is palpable. #SNL
re: Chappelle on #SNL. Look. I'm not happy that it happened. I might be among the least happy that it happened, as someone who's incredibly connected to the marginalized communities that he's so relentlessly refused to understand over the years, angered, and exploited. But I watched it anyway (1/12)
January 19, 2025 at 6:53 AM
re: Chappelle on #SNL. Look. I'm not happy that it happened. I might be among the least happy that it happened, as someone who's incredibly connected to the marginalized communities that he's so relentlessly refused to understand over the years, angered, and exploited. But I watched it anyway (1/12)
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Cold open: So glad we are starting with my favorite writing choice for modern news parodies on this show - having the anchors immediately saying overly self-aware and nonsensical things. #SNL
January 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cold open: So glad we are starting with my favorite writing choice for modern news parodies on this show - having the anchors immediately saying overly self-aware and nonsensical things. #SNL
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Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?
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David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.
January 16, 2025 at 7:47 PM
David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.
Ahead of what will no doubt be an outstanding episode of SNL, I thought I'd post my rankings of the first half of S50. No great shakes! It's actually, at the moment, the lowest ranked season I have ever written about which is... damning to say the least!
January 17, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Ahead of what will no doubt be an outstanding episode of SNL, I thought I'd post my rankings of the first half of S50. No great shakes! It's actually, at the moment, the lowest ranked season I have ever written about which is... damning to say the least!
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Mitchell Kriegman’s unused SNL cast photo along with my own shitty mock-up of how it could’ve looked in the credits
December 28, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Mitchell Kriegman’s unused SNL cast photo along with my own shitty mock-up of how it could’ve looked in the credits
Hilarious to hear that #SNL was apparently struggling so much to generate new ideas for Martin Short, even BEYOND what we saw, that the dress cuts include a rewrite of the Christmas Carol sketch, Treece Henderson, and fucking Minky. So maybe the show was just broken from day one.
December 22, 2024 at 7:58 AM
Hilarious to hear that #SNL was apparently struggling so much to generate new ideas for Martin Short, even BEYOND what we saw, that the dress cuts include a rewrite of the Christmas Carol sketch, Treece Henderson, and fucking Minky. So maybe the show was just broken from day one.
re: Paul Rudd, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Dana Carvey on #SNL. Oh wait, it was the Martin Short episode! What the actual hell happened here? (1/8)
December 22, 2024 at 6:39 AM
re: Paul Rudd, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, and Dana Carvey on #SNL. Oh wait, it was the Martin Short episode! What the actual hell happened here? (1/8)
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Cold open: I'm not the biggest fan of 5-timer navel gazing, but I'll admit it was fascinating to see so many alum on display and more reminders of which hosts still have sharp comic timing and which still don't. And Tina gets to return to shit on the cast, which she always loves. #SNL
December 22, 2024 at 4:43 AM
Cold open: I'm not the biggest fan of 5-timer navel gazing, but I'll admit it was fascinating to see so many alum on display and more reminders of which hosts still have sharp comic timing and which still don't. And Tina gets to return to shit on the cast, which she always loves. #SNL
This week in S13 on the ol' Patreon: Carl Weathers carl-fully weathers (I know) through his first and only #SNL outing! Read all about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/1-30-8...
December 21, 2024 at 12:55 AM
This week in S13 on the ol' Patreon: Carl Weathers carl-fully weathers (I know) through his first and only #SNL outing! Read all about it here: www.patreon.com/posts/1-30-8...
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Cold open: In honor of the show's 50th anniversary, they have decided to bring back a mediocre Amy Poehler impression from 20 years ago. (and this was cut already once this season...) I suppose I shouldn't complain too much as I have begged them to avoid politics and now they are. #SNL
December 15, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Cold open: In honor of the show's 50th anniversary, they have decided to bring back a mediocre Amy Poehler impression from 20 years ago. (and this was cut already once this season...) I suppose I shouldn't complain too much as I have begged them to avoid politics and now they are. #SNL