Alexander Skarsgård brings Saturday Night Live across the thousand-episode mark

I’ve become so accustomed to Saturday Night Live episodes needing to get over multiple humps of weak cold opens, monologues that are often more cute or functional than laugh-out-loud funny, and/or the heavy sigh of a leadoff game-show sketch that when an episode actually starts strong, it can produce an outsized elation and inflated expectations. 20 minutes into Alexander Skarsgård’s first hosting gig, it seemed like it might be one of those weird cases where a relatively low-expectation host...