Our reviewer for this doesn’t live in the UK anymore and so had to use a VPN in order to watch it, and boy did they regret it.
One has to ask why to several key factors, firstly why did they feel that the UK needed Saturday Night Live a show that is dying in the States.
Why did they feel the need to open with an American hostess rather than you know a well known British comedian.
Why did they fill out the cast list with a group of nobodies from British comedy rather than even mid range panel show comedians that many people already know. One has to also assume there was something of a diversity quota when filling out the cast for this show as it is in no way reflective of the UK’s actual population.
To shift gears, who is this for? The kids don’t watch live TV and certainly don’t care about Saturday Night Live, and then older people will resent how this is such obvious cultural imperialism. Maybe this is for the sort of bored lonely middle age people who sit and watch Love Island every night or maybe it’s for the American ex-pats who moved to the UK to run away from Trump.
Upon watching the first episode it became clear this was a mess that should have been aborted long ago, it wasn’t funny, it didn’t have anything to say and it felt like the most corpo thing ever put on British TV.
This is the sort of show that makes you turn off midway through.
Overall, just awful.
0.5/5
Pros
Tina Fey
Cons.
It’s not funny
It’s irritating
It’s corporate
It’s too long
It’s incredibly safe
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