SNL Disses Ginny & Georgia in #PeakTV Takedown — WATCH
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This weekend’s Saturday Night Live took aim at #PeakTV, and dissed a current Netflix hit in the process.
During a showbiz-themed game show parody featuring contestants Robert, Jacqueline and Mary — played respectively by host Pedro Pascal and cast members Ego Nwodim and Chloe Fineman — Big Hollywood Quiz host Jack Delmar (Bowen Yang) proceeded to ask the players questions about a number of seemingly buzzy TV series. And they whiffed each and every time.
Most notably, Yang’s emcee posed this Q regarding Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia: “This breakout hit is the current No. 1 show on Netflix, Ginny &… ”
When the trio flashed blank stares, Yang’s host emphasized, “It’s the most-watched show on the most-watched streaming service in the world. Ginny &… “
“Juice?” Pascal’s Robert shrugged.
Even after being informed of the correct answer, the players were not buying the series’ existence, with Nwodim’s Jacqueline asking, “Is that from Europe?!”
The contestants similarly struggled to identify two high-profile recent Apple TV+ series: Roar starring Nicole Kidman and The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey starring Samuel L. Jackson.
Robert, Jacqueline and Mary also had zero awareness of two currently Oscar nominated films, Women Talking and To Leslie.
As we reported on Thursday, Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia with the release of its second season amassed 2.5 billion minutes viewed across 20 total episodes during the week of Jan. 2.
No. Readers always being eager for disses. And if they can’t get any, they get frustrated, hence your commenting.
Yeah, I wouldn’t say that was a diss. The whole skit about all these “most watched” or critically acclaimed streaming shows that many people have never heard of before, like they came out of no where or it’s some weird gaslighting marketing.
Anyway, Pedro was a great host. It seemed like they brought out the good writing and the host was very game for anything. Hope they have him back.
It was more a diss on the contestants who were all big fans of old movies and tv shows but were clueless about new stuff
I only watched it for Pedro. He’s a very genial host. The only other time I watched it was when Dave Chappell was on it. If they could get Ricky Gervais without the lefties burning down the house then that would indeed be a hat trick.
It’s funny that shows that people actually watch, but the media never talks about, like Ginny & Georgia and Virgin River, which dwarf the viewership of “hit” series like Succession times fold are something Hollywood is out of touch with. I think few people realize Yellowstone is, by far, the most watched programme in America by now, with a gaping lead, because it appeals more to the regular America than the niche series people write about non-stop.
Yellowstone = American garbage.
Succession had 2.7 billion minutes of viewing this past season according to Nielson. That’s just those who watched live (not those who watched repeats or on streaming). That’s higher than the G&G total.
G&G is for a single week of viewing. Succession never even hit 0.8 million viewers airing on HBO. The same HB0 where shows hit 10-20 million viewers live.
I had no idea this show existed. And the reason I discovered it was that I finished binging something but luckily before I could turn Netflix off it showed me a trailer featuring Sarah Waisglass who plays Max. I know her from Degrassi and she seemed great in the trailer that featured her so I thought I’d check it out! And the show was great! But I would’ve never discovered it anywhere else. And this is a problem with sooo many Netflix shows. I discovered Sense8 a few weeks before it was cancelled as well. I discovered elite while scraping the bottom of the barrel late one night. It only showed up in my feed because of my semi love of high school drama…which luckily allowed algorithm to make sure I would late see heart stopper and heartbreak high
Well, I feel seen. :-)
Peak TV is over and we are in some kind of purgatory state while we see what happens next. Streaming services spent insane amounts of money and now it’s catching up. This isn’t just an affect of the pandemic but that has sped the process up. It started a year or so before. Shows slowly started to get canceled that would’ve normally ran 3-4 more seasons. Now the axe drops sometimes more than once a day.
Shows that do succeed are less inspired and play it safer.
La Brea is a shocking hit. Remember how badly all mythology based sci if-ish character dramas failed after Lost? Granted, they were all trying to cash in on Losts success in those following years. It’s only now that audiences seem to have found patience for it with shows like La Brea and Manifest but man Manifest is getting painful.
I wouldn’t say this sketch dissed Ginny & Georgia so much as the general proliferation of our entertainment watching and distributing.
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BUT I would stress the caveat that with that has also come so much more diversity in the stories and the people creating them. Sure, any Hollywood trivia buff knows of Berry Davis and All About Eve. But there were so few available roles for women in Hollywood then, and none of them were writing/directing/producing. I see the problem as squarely a marketing one on the shoulders of those trying to make the content profitable. But I still see the fact that there are more than a handful of shows to watch each week and movies premiering each year as a win for the general public. MASH had so many finale watchers because it was one of very few options around for such a long time. With diversity of choice comes fewer eyeballs and less recognition. Doesn’t necessarily degrade something’s worth, though.
You’re of course correct as to the writing/directing/producing opportunities, although there were a number female writers. But there were great roles for women, and they arguably were greater box office draws than today. The Quigley poll of top box office stars was topped by women (Doris, Day, Elizabeth Taylor, Julie Andrews) every year but one from 1960–1967. Only a couple of women (Julia Roberts, Jennifer Lawrence) have topped it since, and the emphasis on male-driven blockbusters since the late 1970s has not been great for women.
This was literally a “What is Burn Notice?” clone from the Jason Sudekis era.
Does NBC realize that their shows are shown in Canada and not allowing videos from them to be seen in Canada is disrespectful to their audience base. Do they download to any country other than USA?