Saturday Night Live‘s sizzling tackle Netflix’s romantic actuality sensation Love Is Blind may’ve been lower for time throughout John Mulaney‘s hosting stint this weekend, however it’s undoubtedly price your time. Complementing its coronavirus-themed cold open, the skit re-imagined what the present is perhaps like with a COVID-19 twist, and, yeah, it completely labored.
As with the precise streaming collection which has taken over the web and begat 1000 memes, the members within the “experiment” have been nonetheless separated into pods the place they talked to at least one one other by means of that huge blue wall — solely this time, it made much more sense that they is perhaps quarantined like this whereas on the lookout for love.
Come for the very on-point staging; keep for the second when Ego Nwodim‘s “Raquel” (an apparent nod to Lauren from Love Is Blind) lastly will get her likelihood to satisfy Mulaney’s “Dirk” (a riff on Cameron) head to head … simply in time for the contagion officers to step in and spray them each down.
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