October 11, 2026
jmunney
Saturday Night Live, SNL Weekly Recaps, Television
Rosalía, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live Season 52, Shane Gillis, SNL, SNL Season 52
This episode was packed to the Gillis! (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
Welcome to a review of the 3rd episode of the 52nd season of Saturday Night Live. I went on a little getaway for the holiday weekend, so I’m just gonna kind of wing it. Shane Gillis was the host, while Rosalía was the musical guest. They’ve both been here before. You guys know how this goes.
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October 9, 2026
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television, Video Games
A Man from the Future, André Leon Talley: Style Is Forever, Ann Wilson, Ann Wilson & Tripsitter, Beavis and Butt-Head, Consecrated Ground, Fjord, Greta van Fleet, Jackbox Party Pack 12, Misty Green, MST3K: The Rifftrax Experiments, Mud, Other Mommy, Palace for the People, Pet Shop Boys, Pick You Up, Remi Wolf, She's the Best, Sheryl Crow, The Lowdown, The Social Reckoning, Tripsitter, Troye Sivan, VisionQuest
What a Vision! (CREDIT: Marvel Entertainment/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–André Leon Talley: Style Is Forever (Theaters)
–Fjord (Theaters)
–Misty Green (Theaters)
–Other Mommy (Theaters)
–The Social Reckoning (Theaters)
TV
–MST3K: The Rifftrax Experiments Premiere (October 9 on Rifftrax) – The robots are back.
–Beavis and Butt-Head Season 12 Premiere (October 14 on Comedy Central)
–The Lowdown Season 2 Premiere (October 14 on FX)
–VisionQuest Series Premiere (October 14 on Disney+) – WandaVision spinoff.
Music
-Sheryl Crow, Pick You Up
-Greta Van Fleet, Palace for the People
-Pet Shop Boys, A Man from the Future
-Troye Sivan, She’s the Best
-Ann Wilson & Tripsitter, Consecrated Ground
-Remi Wolf, Mud
Video Games
–Jackbox Party Pack 12 (October 15 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Apple TV, iPad, Amazon Fire TV, Nvidia Shield TV, and Xfinity X1)
October 4, 2026
jmunney
Saturday Night Live, SNL Weekly Recaps, Television
SNL, Saturday Night Live, Dakota Johnson, Saturday Night Live Season 52, SNL Season 52, Turnstile
Turning over a new stile (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
Hello! And happy birthday to Dakota Mayi Johnson. Because the date that this review is posting (October 4) is in fact her birthday. Whereas, when she began hosting SNL for the third time, it was not quite her birthday (unless you were in Australia, I guess). But because SNL episodes typically extend beyond the stroke of midnight, it became her birthday at some point during the show.
I was not involved in any birthday celebrations this weekend, though I did have plenty of excitement by running a 5K on Sunday morning. I suppose that was about as exciting as watching the band Turnstile be hardcore on stage, which I mention of course because they were the musical guest on this episode.
As for my Review Gimmick, I shall once again Transcribe the Notes I Took While Watching the Episode.
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October 2, 2026
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Abbott Elementary, Celebrity Wheel of Fortune, Cupertino, Elsbeth, Eternally Yours, Family Guy, Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage, Johnny Marr, Make Some Noise, Meshell Ndegeocello, Synonym, The Age of Everything, The UnBelievable with Dan Aykroyd, Verity
I’ll try a Cuppa (CREDIT: CBS/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Verity (Theaters)
TV
–Celebrity Wheel of Fortune Season Premiere (October 2 on ABC)
–The Unbelievable with Dan Aykroyd Season 4 Premiere (October 2 on History)
–Family Guy: “Happy Hell-o-ween” (October 5 on Hulu) – Streaming-exclusive holiday special.
–Make Some Noise Season 4 Premiere (October 5 on Dropout)
–Abbott Elementary Season 6 Premiere (October 7 on ABC)
–Georgie & Mandy’s First Marriage Season 3 Premiere (October 8 on CBS)
–Eternally Yours Series Premiere (October 8 on CBS) – Vampire sitcom.
–Elsbeth Season 4 Premiere (October 8 on CBS)
–Cupertino Series Premiere (October 8 on CBS) – Created by the Kings; starring Mike Colter and Rachel Keller.
Music
-Meshell Ndegeocello, Synonym
-Johnny Marr, The Age of Everything
September 27, 2026
jmunney
Saturday Night Live, SNL Weekly Recaps, Television
Jalen Brunson, KATSEYE, Saturday Night Live, Saturday Night Live Season 52, SNL, SNL Season 52
SNL in 5 (-ty 2)! (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)
Jeff “jmunney” Malone watches every new episode of Saturday Night Live and then reviews all the sketches and segments according to a “wacky” theme.
Let me let you in on a little secret (which is in fact not a secret at all, but rather publicly available information): reigning NBA Finals MVP Jalen Brunson was the official host of the Season 52 premiere of Saturday Night Live. It was an understandable booking, considering that 2026 was the first time that the New York Knickerbockers won the NBA championship since SNL has been on the air.
As for the musical guest that Brunson introduced, that’d be internationally flavored girl group KATSEYE. They don’t have any particular affiliation with the Knicks that I’m aware of, but they do seem to have achieved a noteworthy level of popularity.
Regarding the Review Gimmick for this episode, it will of course be Basketball-themed, so I’ll say things like “Baller,” “Slam Dunk”, or “4 out of 5 Basketballs.”
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September 25, 2026
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Bucks County USA, Danceteria, Everyone Gets Everything They Want, Forgotten Island, Grimsburg, Ha-Chan Shake Your Booty!, Happiness Anytime, Heart of the Beast, I Wrote You a Letter, Leon Bridges, M83, Marrow Deep, Mastodon, MTV Video Music Awards, Nothing But Thieves, Popstar, Primetime, Saturday Night Live, Scrubs, SNL, Soft Cell, Stray Dogs, The Simpsons, The Stunt Driver, Tinashe, Tom Morello, Video Music Awards, VMAs, Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother
I’d watch that for a Buck! (CREDIT: PBS)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–Forgotten Island (Theaters)
–Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (Theaters)
–Heart of the Beast (Theaters)
–Primetime (Theaters)
–The Stunt Driver (Theaters)
–Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother (Theaters)
TV
–Bucks County, USA (Check your local PBS listings) – Docuseries about a purple county in a purple state.
–Saturday Night Live Season 52 Premiere (September 26 on NBC) – Jalen Brunson and KATSEYE will be their guests
-MTV Video Music Awards (September 27 on CBS, MTV, and Paramount+) – Hosted by Snoop Dogg.
–Grimsburg Season 3 Premiere (September 27 on FOX)
–The Simpsons Season 38 Premiere (September 28 on FOX)
–Scrubs Reboot Season 2 Premiere (September 30 on ABC)
Music
-Leon Bridges, Happiness Anytime
-M83, I Wrote You a Letter
-Mastodon, Marrow Deep – This dropped at the end of August but somehow I missed it.
-Tom Morello, Everyone Gets Everything They Want
-Nothing But Thieves, Stray Dogs
-Soft Cell, Danceteria – Reputedly their last album.
-Tinashe, Popstar
September 18, 2026
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Anthrax, Apples for Isaac, Bass Persuades, Beabadoobee, Beck, Best Medicine, Bulldozer!!, Carly Rae Jepsen, Celebrity Name That Tune, Cursum Perficio, Day and Night, Echo & the Bunnymen, Estrus, Miley, Miley Cyrus, MNEK, Neil Young, Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, OurHome, Pylon, Resident Evil, Ride Lonesome, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Roger Taylor, Second Song, Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, The History of Concrete, The Love Hypothesis, The Weight, Tove Lo, Violence Insane in a Beautiful World, You Had to Be There, You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution Spread Love & Overalls and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–The History of Concrete (Theaters)
–The Love Hypothesis (September 23 on Amazon Prime)
–Resident Evil (Theaters)
–Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (Theaters)
–The Weight (Theaters)
–You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love & Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way) (Theaters)
TV
–Best Medicine Season 2 Premiere (September 20 on FOX)
–Celebrity Name That Tune Season Premiere (September 21 on FOX)
Music
-Anthrax, Cursum Perficio
-Beabadoobee, Pylon
-Beck, Ride Lonesome
-Carly Rae Jepsen, Day and Night
-Echo & the Bunnymen, Apples for Isaac
-Miley, Bass Persuades – The “Miley” in this case is Cyrus.
-MNEK, Bulldozer!!
-Rodrigo y Gabriela, OurHome
-Roger Taylor, Violence Insane in a Beautiful World
-Tove Lo, Estrus
-Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts, Second Song
September 14, 2026
jmunney
Awards Shows, Emmys, Television
2026 Emmys, 78th Emmys, 78th Primetime Emmys, DTF St. Louis, Emmy predictions, Emmys, The Pitt, Widow's Bay
What’s your Emmy mantra? (CREDIT: Television Academy/Screenshot)
It’s Emmy Monday!!! Since I am a hopeless devotee of the boob tube, I do indeed make sure to annually view the presentation of the Primetime Emmy Awards. And along with that viewing tradition, I also enjoy making predictions of the winners in the major categories, along with my selections of whom I would vote for if I were a member of the TV Academy.
Now, I haven’t watched every single nominated program, so in some cases, my preference might be for a nominee that I believe would give an entertaining acceptance speech, as opposed to necessarily who I thought was the best at making quality television in the past year.
Anyway, we’ll all find out together how it goes down when Mariska Hargitay emcees the ceremony on Monday, September 14 on NBC and Peacock.
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September 11, 2026
jmunney
Cinema, Entertainment To-Do List, Music, Television
Anatomy of a Brief Romance, Bloc Party, Creative Arts Emmys, Emmys, Jeopardy!, Ow ∞, Practical Magic 2, Runner, Saturday Night Live UK, SNL UK, South Park, Sylvan Esso, The Fix, The Floor, The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza, The Uprising
Terrifying Toby (CREDIT: Adult Swim/Screenshot)
Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.
Movies
–The Fix (Theaters)
–Practical Magic 2 (Theaters) – I’ve never seen the first one.
–Runner (Theaters)
–The Uprising (Theaters)
TV
-Creative Arts Emmys (September 12 on FXX)
–Saturday Night Live UK Season 2 Premiere (September 12 on Sky One for UK Viewers, Peacock the Next Day for Yanks) – Jeff Goldblum and CMAT headline the premiere.
–The Floor Season 6 Premiere (September 13 on FOX)
–The Terrors of Jordan Mendoza (September 13 on Adult Swim) – I saw a commercial for this, and it looked pretty interesting.
–Jeopardy! Season 43 Premiere (Check local listings)
-78th Primetime Emmy Awards (September 14 on NBC) – Hosted by Mariska Hargitay.
–South Park Season 29 Premiere (September 16 on Comedy Central)
Music
-Bloc Party, Anatomy of a Brief Romance
-Sylvan Esso, Ow ∞
September 10, 2026
jmunney
Cinema, Movie Reviews, Television
Bill Corbett, Cambot, Crow, Kevin Murphy, Mary Jo Pehl, Michael J. Nelson, Mike Nelson, MST3K, MST3K: The Rifftrax Experiments, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Rifftrax, Sting of Death, Tom Servo
Stings So Good (CREDIT: Rifftrax/Screenshot)
There was a movie sign, so I followed it to my local multiplex. Yes indeed, I went to see the special theatrical premiere of the first episode of MST3K: The Rifftrax Experiments, in which Mike Nelson and the bots checked out the 1960s Portuguese man o’ war-centric thriller Sting of Death. And well, I’m pleased to report that there were plenty of terrific riffs! My favorite was assuredly the one about how young people used to be much older, while the biggest collective laugh overall in my theater had to be the observation that the director dared to film upside-down butts. I would list some riffs verbatim here, but I want to make sure I don’t get any verbiage incorrect (even slightly), so I’ll wait until I can rewatch this episode once it arrives on Rifftrax proper before I do anything like that. And rewatch I shall, as MST3K has always thrived in its rewatchability.
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