SNL Season 43: Tina Fey

SNL finished off its season this week with Tina Fey. Onto the review

Donald Trump Robert Mueller Cold Open: Lets hope this is the last of Alec Baldwin as Trump. Its time to move on. His trump impersonation has just gotten tired as it goes on. This particular cold open was quite interesting though, in that it paints the situation we're in. We get Kate as Rudy and Ben Stiller as Cohen....with De Niro's Mueller looming in the background in a NJ diner. This cold open was a take off the Sorpanos season finale, with the cut to black and all; and that's what I meant by getting this situation down. As we head into the summer and year 2 of the Mueller lead investigation, we just don't know where it will go or what else will come out. (7.4)

Monologue: SNL has gotten some flack in the past couple of years of relying on celebrity cameos over the actual cast...and they played around with that with Tina's monologue, taking questions from various celebs in the audience. (7.5)

Royal Wedding: (6.4)

Morning Joe: I was expecting a little more from this, but Kate and Alex have got Mika and Joe's characters down. (7.4)

Mean Girls(short): (7.6)

(Nicki Minaj): (7.5)

Weekend Update: One of the best new Update characters, Alex and Mikey's Eric and Donald Trump Jr returned to update. Every time, all eyes are on Alex and his physical movements, trying to mirror Mikey. Just a terrific work of comedy.

In a quick turnaround, Kenan showed up as Bishop Curry from the royal wedding. Given that he literally only had hours for this character, he did a really good job.

Update closed off with some "un-aired" jokes throughout the season which were pretty fantastic. (8.5)

Pervert Hunters: (6.7)

Sarah Palin Advice: We were bound for a Palin appearance, and I thought this was a good use of it. A variety of current and former trump admin officials perform a take off of "The Chorus Line" on their commitment to Trump. (8.3)

(Nicki Minaj): (6.5)

Talent Show: (7.0)

Chicago Improv (short): (7.4)

All in all, it was a somewhat lackluster season finale, with nothing really super memorable. It sort of felt all season long that SNL ran into some trouble trying to parody Trump. It worked out best when Trump wasn't present in character, and hopefully they'll move on from Alec Baldwin for season 44. (7.35)

Donald Glover: 8.05

Will Ferrell: 8.02
Chance The Rapper: 7.83
Ryan Gosling: 7.63

John Mulaney: 7.58
Sam Rockwell: 7.55
Kumali Nanjiani: 7.48 

Amy Schumer: 7.43

Bill Hader: 7.42 
Charles Barkley: 7.41

Tina Fey: 7.35
Chadwick Boseman: 7.34 
Sterling K. Brown: 7.30
James Franco: 7.28
Kevin Hart: 7.20
Saoirse Ronan: 7.16
Tiffany Haddish: 7.15
Larry David: 7.14
Jessica Chastain: 7.11
Gal Gadot: 7.08 
Natalie Portman: 7.03