"This weekend, Stranger Things star and filmmaker Finn Wolfhard hosted Saturday Night Live - and, as you might expect, the show feaured plenty of riffs on both Stranger Things and prestige television as a whole. There's some precedent for that - when Anya Taylor-Joy hosted in the wake of The Queen's Gambit's success, one of the standout sketches involved various SNL cast members pitching her chess-themed followups."
"In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Stranger Things co-creator Matt Duffer dismissed talk of revisiting the characters in a new project, saying, "I don't know how that would read as anything but a gross cash grab to me." That's real life, but comedy can involve glimpses of a road not taken - in this case, a sketch that envisioned a world in which Netflix opted for the cash grab, and reunited Wolfhard with two of his Stranger Things costars, Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin."
"This wasn't the only sketch that riffed on Netflix and the television landscape in general. Another sketch riffed on a very real upcoming Netflix documentary, in which Free Solo's Alex Honnold attempts to scale the 101-story building Taipei 101 with no safety gear. SNL's sketch asked: what if Honnold was joined by another climber, a man with no training whatsoever and a number of very good reasons not to try to scale a massive skyscraper."
Finn Wolfhard hosted Saturday Night Live, and the episode featured multiple sketches riffing on Stranger Things and prestige television. One sketch drew on precedent from Anya Taylor-Joy's post-Queen's Gambit hosting to imagine Netflix reuniting Wolfhard with costars Gaten Matarazzo and Caleb McLaughlin. Stranger Things co-creator Matt Duffer dismissed revisiting the characters as "a gross cash grab," which contrasted with the sketch's premise. Another sketch parodied a real upcoming Netflix documentary about Alex Honnold attempting Taipei 101 by adding an untrained, ill-suited climbing partner. An additional sketch imagined HBO's Harry Potter adaptation turning into a Heated Rivalry-style Quidditch spectacle with an unexpected cameo. Teyana Taylor will host next week.
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