Jenna Ortega hosted a charming episode of Saturday Night Live carried along on a pleasantly funny wave of decent writing and amusing character performances.
itself, came off a bit jittery in her brief monologue, highlighted as it was by clips of her 9-years-old commercial debut. Assuring everyone in attendance that she’s not just the deadpan horror heroine she’s become best known for , and the young actor overcame the thinness of her intro bit by throwing herself gamely into a healthy number of lead roles.
The Please Don’t Destroy guys are now firmly ensconced in the show’s first half-hour, the 66% nepo babies Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy finding a secure groove as the resident in-house video content creators. Here, while the guys hit the highway for a “beautiful cross-country American road trip,” with host Ortega in happy tow, Ortega’s presence maintains the whole backstage drones premise so central to the trio’s onscreen charm.
Eschewing the political cold open in favor of a more traditional Oscars red carpet sketch, the show started out with Marcello Hernandez and Heidi Gardner playing the beamingly bland hosts, Mario Lopez and either Maria Menounos of Kir Hooper . It’s all just okay, with Chloe Fineman debuting an energetically competent Jamie Lee Curtis—talented impressionist Chloe’s got the Uber-enthusiastic mom energy and cadence down perfectly, if not the actual voice.
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