June 22, 2011

Saturday Night Live: Season Two

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Title: Saturday Night Live: Season Two
Year: 1976-1977
Network: NBC
Episodes: 22, at about 67 minutes each
Creator: Lorne Michaels
Director: Dave Wilson
Writers: Anne Beatts (22 episodes), Al Franken (22), Tom Davis (22), Lorne Michaels (22), Marilyn Suzanne Miller (22), Michael O'Donoghue (22), Herbert Sargent (22), Tom Schiller (22), Rosie Shuster (22), Alan Zweibel (22), Dan Aykroyd (21), John Belushi (21), James Downey (11), Chevy Chase (9), Bill Murray (5)
Starring: Eric Idle, Steve Martin, Buck Henry (2 episodes each); Lily Tomlin, Norman Lear, Karen Black, Dick Cavett, Paul Simon, Jodie Foster, Candice Bergen, Ralph Nader, Ruth Gordon, Fran Tarkenton, Sissy Spacek, Broderick Crawford, Jack Burns, Julian Bond, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall (1 episode each)
With: Dan Aykroyd, John Belushi, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, Laraine Newman, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase
Music: Howard Shore (director)
I saw it: streaming from Netflix, over the past few weeks
Synopsis: sketch comedy and variety acts

My reaction
Concept:2/4 (Indifferent)
Story:1/4 (Bad)
Characters:2/4 (Indifferent)
Dialog:3/4 (Good)
Pacing:0/4 (Terrible)
Cinematography:1/4 (Bad)
Special effects/design:1/4 (Bad)
Acting:3/4 (Good)
Music:3/4 (Good)
Subjective Rating: 5/10 (Indifferent, 2/4 (Indifferent)). Averages about one funny sketch per episode.  Andy Kaufman doing Elvis is the only moment of brilliance.
Objective Rating (Average):1.8/4 (Eh)

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