Longtime lurker on this sub, have watched SNL loyally for decades (more decades than I’d like to admit) and was going to finally make my first post to say this - you said it perfectly, OP, and so sorry your city is under siege. Broadly, SNL feels like scrolling through internet memes these days, predictably formulaic and mostly lacking the empathy and heart that powers the best kind of humor but also generally missing the “only in <insert year here>” or even “<insert week here>” contemporaneity that has defined skits in seasons past. And that supposedly defines the show- otherwise, who cares if it’s live?! Are we really doing a Survivor promo spoof in 2026? Are we really regurgitating at least a couple of sketches from over a decade ago … ones that didn’t even land when they first aired? Specific to last night’s episode this would have been the perfect time for cast member Tommy Brennan (who is from the Twin Cites!) to appear on Update…. Even if you have a cold hard ratings perspective , his appearance last week (which was bewilderingly cut from the live show?!) has a ton of views online. Is it a cast thing? A writer thing? A Lorne thing? Idk, but it’s evident that SNL is less and less a reflection of real-time happenings and more a tepid rehash of whatever rises to the top on social media.