Sandra Oh elevated SNL in her hosting debut

The A.V. Club

"The Killing Eve star and awards show monologue delight didn’t have as much to work with in her own first-time SNL monologue (Canadians and Asians are both united in deflecting even much-deserved praise, goes the joke), but, man, does Oh shine on the SNL stage," says Dennis Perkins. "In both the monologue and the goodnights, Oh’s enthusiasm and obvious happiness at hosting Saturday Night Live were simply irresistible objects, while, in between, her presence in a healthy number of sketches showed how game and excited she was to be there, and her steady professionalism helped carry off some so-so execution on the show’s part. That’s something, for better and worse, that this season has carried in common—interesting, unusual first-time host choices (Elba, Cheadle, Schreiber, Foy) whose charisma and straight-up talent added some welcome edges to some disappointingly homogenous material."

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