Jeff Sessions Farewell Cold Open: With Sessions exiting the white house, that may just mean the end of Kate McKinnon's Sessions. This was a fairly by the numbers cold open with a lot of different appearances, but most importantly from Mikey and Alex's Don Jr and Eric. (7.6)
Monologue: (7.0)
Invest Twins: A play on words sketch, this could have come off as sophomoric, but they were able to pull it off. (7.9)
Unity Song (short): A political themed song showing how we're united despite being divided. I get what they were trying to do here, but it came off somewhat flat. (7.5)
Paranormal Occurrences: Kate's recurring character returns, as Cecily and Liev account their run-ins with ghosts, with Kate telling a much different story. Kate is just a master at this character, doing whatever it takes to break the cast. (8.0)
Permission (short): (7.2)
Weekend Update: Update was on fire this week, coming off the midterms.
Cecily made an appearance as the White House press aide, trying to take a pencil away from Colin. Her mannerisms were spot on.
As I mentioned last week (w/o going into detail), Pete Davidson stirred up some controversy going after Rep-elect Dan Crenshaw, making a joke about his eye-patch. Pete came on again to apologize, and in a surprise Crenshaw himself showed up (along with an Ariana Grande ringtone) to poke some fun at Pete while then going on to discuss how the right and the left can come together. It was a very nice moment altogether (one I haven't seen before on SNL). (9.0)
The Poddys: (6.2)
House Hunters: This started a strong post-Update stretch. Leslie Jones really had a moment. (7.8)
Brothers: A perfect beck and kyle sketch. They just played off each other perfectly in this. (8.4)
Outside The Women's Bathroom: A perfect, bizarre 10 to 1 sketch. Liev plays a guy whose randomly hosting a talk show outside the women's bathroom. It was the perfect amount of random. (7.9)
This felt like the most complete episode to date this season. Liev tried to tempt expectations in this monologue, but what followed was a top to bottom solid episode. (7.68)
Liev Schreiber: 7.68
Jonah Hill: 7.39
Adam Driver: 7.33
Seth Meyers: 7.08
Awkwafina: 6.48
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