Saturday Night Live Rescues Its Cold Open By Finally Moving Away from Trump

The second episode of the season gave further proof that Saturday Night Live has decided to rescue its cold open from the deep. Alec Baldwin’s President Trump, and then James Austin Johnson’s amusing but toothless take, became deadweight that nearly ran the show’s opening sketch aground. And now, with a saner, more methodical administration in the White House, the payoff of a political skewering had rapidly diminished. The Trump and Mar-a-Lago old open had become a drag so predictable that SNL wisely opened its new season last week with a clever play-by-play of its expected tedium. With that shrewd acknowledgement… Read Full Article