Week's Best TV: SNL Roasts White People and Freak Show Covers Bowie
In life, you've gotta take the good with the bad. Sometimes that means balancing out the terrifying reality of civil forfeiture with a Carol Burnett tour of late night comedy shows. Other times, like in the case of Key & Peele, that means battling the devil back to hell (with your prayers) for tempting your family with sins of the flesh. But sometimes, things aren't so black and white as good vs. evil, comedy legends vs. the abuse of power by police. Sometimes, you end up in a weird middle ground where Kathie Lee and Hoda Kotbe go on a primetime WWE broadcast and remind us how fragile our dignity can be, as we twist in emotional purgatory. So in other words, this week in TV was a messy affair, but as much as we cringed we also laughed—and then Jessica Lange sang to us. And we knew everything would be OK again. Here is this week's most memorable television.