Saturday Night Live's second quarantine episode saw the return of some old favorites, and was more professional all around than the first one. It wasn't quite as memorable, though. Read our review.
returned this past weekend with its second episode produced under quarantine. As predicted, this second go ‘round wasn’t quite as big a break from the show’s formula, which made it less memorable. It was also a more professional outing, with a greater emphasis on editing and special effects to make up for the fact that all the cast members were shot separately at their own homes.
Kenan Thompson got much more screen time this week than during the last quarantine episode, which is almost always a good thing. His David Ortiz made a rare appearance outside Weekend Update, hosting his own Dominican cooking show for everybody stuck at home.
Rehashing the SoulCycle sketch was a smart choice. That sketch is already just a cycle of individual character performances, which makes it easy to replicate from different locations. The jokes weren’t the best, but Bowen Yang was once again amazing in it. A murder investigation inexplicably conducted over Zoom fell flat, as did a lazy Pornhub ad parody and a sketch where Paul Rudd had an awkward FaceTime chat with his weird cousin .
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