Saturday Night Live - Season 44, Episode 18: Emma Stone/BTS
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On Saturday night, a new season, a late-night comedy show featuring several short plays, simulations of television commercials, and a live band. There is a new team of award-winning celebrities performing comics and popular music stars. It is a new display of a wide range of music and graphics that seem to be the most famous and have won the admiration of many.
Though tonight's sketches don't reveal some new facet of Emma Stone that's never been seen before, and her newest characters aren't remarkable, she holds it down throughout.
The folks in Studio 8H were there to see a concert first and a sketch comedy show second. Now, such a warning wasn't truly necessary, as plenty in-house laughed at the mostly solid material in this week's installment.
Emma Stone, on the other hand, rocks the episode, to the point that she has an entire sketch...she carries pretty much on her own...and it doesn't feel off or like she needs to be rescued.
Good for SNL for using something, anything, to open the show besides the horror show in the White House, and for the best use of a celebrity since McCarthy.
As we approach the end of Saturday Night Live's 44th season, they're pulling out the big guns with host Emma Stone and musical guest BTS, but some sketches hit more like a BB gun taking strange potshots.
