Entertainment To-Do List: Week of 3/8/24

March 8, 2024

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What’s the weirdest thing about hosting the Oscars? (CREDIT: Eric McCandless/Disney)

Every week, I list all the upcoming (or recently released) movies, TV shows, albums, podcasts, etc. that I believe are worth checking out.

Movies
–Imaginary (Theaters)
–Love Lies Bleeding (Theaters)

TV
-96th Academy Awards (March 10 on ABC) – This year the Oscars start an hour earlier than usual!
–Password Season Premiere (March 12 on NBC)
–Apples Never Fall Miniseries Premiere (March 14 on Peacock) – I might check this out since Alison Brie’s in it.
–Girls5eva Season 3 (March 14 on Netflix) – Streaming switch.

Music
-Bleachers, Bleachers
-Dion, Girl Friends
-Kim Gordon, The Collective
-Ariana Grande, Eternal Sunshine
-Norah Jones, Visions
-Judas Priest, Invincible Shield

Jeff’s Wacky SNL Review: Ariana DeBose/Bleachers

January 16, 2022

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SNL: Jack Antonoff, Ariana DeBose, Bowen Yang (CREDIT: NBC/Screenshot)

Good morning, I’m coming to you live from January 2022! It’s the first new Saturday Night Live episode of the year, that’s what I’m going to be talking about here. Speaking of firsts, it’s the first time that singing actress Ariana DeBose is the host and also the first time that Jack Antonoff’s band Bleachers is the musical guest, but not the first time that Jack’s been here, as he also performed with fun.) Hopefully that’s not too confusing!

In case this is your first time reading one of my reviews, you should know that this season, I’ve been ordering the sketches in a variety of ways, like alphabetical and reverse airing order. This time, I’m doing it in order of the number of speaking/singing roles per sketch. A few notes on this: narrators are counted, except for Darrell Hammond during the monologue (since that’s more a part of the opening credits). The person introducing the musical guest IS counted for the musical performances, while backup singers are NOT counted if they only sing backup. And for Weekend Update, the parts with guests are counted separately from the parts that are just Michael and Colin telling jokes.

Okay, here we go!

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