One of the Things People Are Talking About this week (according to those who keep track of Things People Are Talking About) is that a young, attractive, and well-endowed actress (Sydney Sweeney) hosted Saturday Night Live this past weekend. And that means Woke is over, I guess?
I watched several of the sketches on Sunday, via YouTube, and I wouldn't have predicted that reaction. I'm still not entirely sure I get it. Apparently, from what I'm hearing, Sweeney's career marks the return of the blond bombshell. It's OK to think chicks are hot again. Like, just to think they're hot because they're hot. Not because they're "strong women" or a first minority woman to do ______, or something.
I would have thought Scarlett Johansson and Margot Robie were filling the blond bombshell role pretty well, but even they apparently don't have - well, they don't have what it takes. I just checked, and Robie hasn't hosted SNL since 2016 - the before time. Johansson, per the internet, has just been showing up here and there to (mis)portray Ivanka Trump. Kate Upton has never hosted, and she doesn't exactly do a lot of acting these days. Still, Kardashian hosted SNL in 2021. I guess it has to be a blond? Or was she too old at the time? I'm still confused. I'm sure there may be plenty of curvaceous SNL hosts that haven't even come to mind for me.
Another confusing aspect to all this is the Fact - the Well-Known Fact - that no one watches SNL, because it hasn't been funny since the Clinton administration. Or at least that's what everyone says. So how did anyone know that Sweeney, and her considerable charms were there to herald the end of Woke?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boobs-are-back-thank-you-sydney-sweeney/