Here’s how we made sense of this senseless SNL season:
The cast of SNL season 46. Photo: Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC Season 46 of Saturday Night Live may go down as one of its weirdest and most contentious. The season began with people unsure whether it was even safe to perform. Then a country singer got canceled for not taking COVID-19 precautions seriously. Then that country singer did a mea culpa sketch with Jason Bateman. Then that country singer got canceled again. And then Elon?! It’s been a year, folks. A year that made no damn sense.
It’s sometimes hard to gauge Saturday Night Live’s cultural relevance in an ever-fragmenting culture. People tweeted angrily about SNL on both sides of every issue it prompted. But is Twitter outrage a useful metric for audience engagement? No. You want to know what is? TikTok sounds. TikTok is its own weird little world, but it’s a world whose demographics are all over the shops. By that metric, do you want to know which episode of season 46 had the most staying power? Adele’s.
Here’s how we made sense of this senseless season: screen time ranked by points. The SNL points system was first designed by Erik Voss for Splitsider and honed into a deadly blade of evaluation at Vulture. You get one point if you’re onscreen. If you’re a waiter that only gives exposition, or if your voice is used in a commercial parody, that’s a point. Performers get two points if they deliver a joke line.
We also used the same rubric to calculate cast-member screen time in the sketches that are cut for time but released later on YouTube. They don’t count in the overall score, but it’s interesting to see what could have been: Graphic: by Vulture This season was as fragmented as the reactions it inspired in the audience. Episode three was the first one in which every Not Ready for Prime Time Player had a line. People can kind of do whatever and still work on SNL now. Aidy Bryant is doing Shrill, Kenan Thompson and Chris Redd are doing Kenan, and Michael Che is doing his show on HBO Max. SNL used to be the show that launched you into bigger things, but now you can get launched and still stay in the nest.
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