"The moment Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth began berating the military officials assembled at Marine Corps Base Quantico last week, he set Saturday Night Live up for an alley-oop. With his clenched fists, hot temper, and stars-and-stripes pocket square, the former Fox News host-as SNL was eager to point out at the top of its 51st-season premiere-did enough self-parody that Colin Jost didn't have to add much to nail his take on Hegseth. Jost simply ratcheted up the volume and the attacks on soldiers' physiques."
"The women of HUNTR/X, the fictional pop trio that leads the sleeper hit, provided the kicker to a sketch that poked fun at what it's like to be on the inside (and outside) of a huge cultural phenomenon. Bad Bunny is the lone KPop Demon Hunters-obsessed member of his friend group, played by Mikey Day, Chloe Fineman, and Sarah Sherman."
Pete Hegseth berated military officials at Marine Corps Base Quantico, providing ripe material for parody. SNL's cold open used Hegseth's clenched fists, hot temper, and stars-and-stripes pocket square to lampoon him, with Colin Jost amplifying the self-parody and physical jokes about soldiers. That political send-up generated attention, but the episode's biggest laughs came from a pop-cultural sketch centered on the animated Netflix film KPop Demon Hunters. Bad Bunny and Doja Cat appeared on the episode while the fictional pop trio HUNTR/X stole the spotlight within the sketch. The sketch satirized fandom, insider/outsider dynamics, and signaled SNL's desire to track shifting pop-culture trends.
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