Saturday Night Live Season-Finale Recap: Jake Gyllenhaal Does Too Much

Last year’s Saturday Night Live season finale was not intended to be the finale. After the team put out a resoundingly mid Ana de Armas-hosted episode in April, they hoped to follow it up with three more shows in May, culminating with Jennifer Coolidge’s decades-belated hosting debut. Instead, the WGA strike scuttled that last trio of episodes, leaving an undercooked sequel to “Lisa From Temecula” as a summary statement on season 48 as a whole.

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