Kate McKinnon is on fire. She’s always been one of the brightest spots on Saturday Night Live, but this season, she’s cemented her place as a consistent scene-stealer that won’t let up, no matter how uncomfortable it is. She played the perfect Kellyanne Conway and Hillary Clinton in their IT spoof, proving her characters are always going to work in just about any situation, but then there’s Debette Goldry, the old-school actress who has dealt with the terribleness of men in power for decades.
McKinnon’s character is almost a little too real, which is becoming a consistent theme for SNL. Debette Goldry has consistently pointed out the worst of men in Hollywood, only to accept it as the way things were. Now that the assaults are front and center, the character carries even more weight.
Surrounded by a heavy-hitting roundtable of Hollywood elites discussing the elephant in the room — sexual harassment in Hollywood. Goldry makes it simple: “Women being harassed is Hollywood,” she says before making it into a cultural discussion. “Everything that is old is new again. Producers are harassing starlets, Nazis are marching in the streets… When’s Polio coming back this’ll be fun.”
Proving that they really do work right up until showtime, SNL made a quick reference to Weinstein being kicked out of the Motion Picture Academy, then they ran down how each actress at the roundtable was sexually harassed. It’s brutal, and systematic.
A real, “You scratch my back I’ll keep mum about the girl who drowned at your pool party situation.”
