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Weird stat.

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the YouTube/streaming numbers are what matters now, the 50th anniversary special is a one off for this year. sustainable?

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Really wish y'all would read the actual article.

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This season’s average is especially impressive when considering that it does not account for the massive viewership of “SNL50: The Anniversary Special,”

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The Oct. 12 episode, which was headlined by Ariana Grande and Stevie Nicks, was the most-watched on social with 712 million views.

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Don't care. Haven't watched it in 20 years.

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You were told not to read! It's in the title!
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I know there's a big "SNL hasn't been funny for years" crowd here. Bad news - it's going nowhere.

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Among adults ages 18-49, “SNL” was the No. 1 broadcast series of the 2024-2025 season, excluding sports and news programming, and the No. 1 broadcast or cable comedy for the sixth season running.

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Additionally, “SNL” finds a significant portion of its audience on social media, where Season 50 and the anniversary special reached a total of 7.7 billion views

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IMHO it's still not as good as the Hader/Wiig/Sudeikis/Samberg years which was the most recent peak, but slowly getting back there. Cast is still too big. Every episode is good for at least a few good sketches or pre-taped bits, or at least a couple groaners on Weekend Update. And the new guy doing Trump is much funnier than Baldwin's version.

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He was a great minor character on Parks

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Loved that character

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I thought he was menacing in the first one and first part of this but his appearance in the second half was phoned in with goofy lines and unnecessary maniacal laughing.

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A weak villain was the weakness of these last two movies. Apparently Nicholas Hoult was supposed to be Gabriel but there was a scheduling issue or something and we ended up with Esai Morales, who is a bland TV actor at best. If Gabriel was played by an interesting badass actor like Sean Harris, Henry Cavill, or Philip Seymour Hoffman then "the Entity" could've been more of a weapon than a somewhat silly sci-fi villain.

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He makes it seem he would be living in the hood…you got big dough man every town has the nice area. Go to place where the old money lives

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I thought he was referring to how hot it is in Louisiana. That's why he said he's too old to play here. Seems like a leap to assume crime or politics plays into this. You think Aaron Rogers has ever once thought about Louisiana politics or crime statistics? Lotta projecting on this board.

We are flyover country to people like him. He's from California. All he knows is La is not LA.

Also on Apple Podcasts if you prefer to just listen.

I like James Gunn and enjoyed all the GOTG movies, but... don't care for the CGI Superdog. Really think that's going to bother me if it's all through the movie.

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I had the feels for Dedra a bit. All she did was deliver a crucial spy to them but, because she went off script, she gets punished

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When Dedra was confronting Luthen by herself my first thought was disappointment that Gilroy had gotten lazy because he wanted a cool one-on-one scene with a "villain monologue", the type of thing we've seen a million times before that is cool but not realistic. Turns out it was Dedra's screwup because she wanted the one-on-one confrontation, and she paid for it. It's almost a commentary on movie tropes, if you think about it that way.