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Saturday Night Live Season-Finale Recap: Scarlett Johansson Gets the Job Done
The seasoned host is a fitting choice for a perfectly adequate finale that has some great moments, but doesn’t feel momentous.
That doesn’t quite get her to Steve Martin or Alec Baldwin levels — though she’s now officially the most frequent female host in the show’s history, surpassing Tina Fey and Drew Barrymore — but it was sweet to see her join the rest of the cast in song during the more-earnest-than-funny monologue. But she isn’t the highlight of that bit; that would be musical guest Bad Bunny, who shows up as a himbo air traffic controller who manages to get them on the ground safe after Googling “how can I help an airplane to land good.” Ditto the lackluster intimacy coordinators skit, where her vague confusion about lesbian sex can’t match Kenan Thompson’s befuddlement. There’s not much to say here; it’s four Victorian ladies at lunch, bantering with their butler (Dismukes) and eating disgusting food like jellied eels, bowls of cow blood, and BLTs (bunnies and little turtles).
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