You already know a present has crossed into the pop-culture mainstream when it lands a spoof on Saturday Night time Reside. And that’s precisely what’s occurred to Netflix’s shiny homicide melodrama The Looking Wives.
For the uninitiated, the present follows Brittany Snow (performed right here by Chloe Fineman) as a younger girl from the East Coast who relocates to East Texas along with her husband after a lethal drunk-driving accident. As soon as there, she turns into infatuated along with her husband’s boss, performed in the actual collection by Malin Akerman — and by Amy Poehler within the sketch — as the 2 spiral into a large number of medicine, secrets and techniques, and a younger woman’s homicide.
It’s bought all of the substances of a deliciously trashy Netflix hit, someplace between You and Yellowstone. However what it’s actually well-known for — and what SNL zeroes in on — is simply how homosexual the entire thing is. “Thousands and thousands of Individuals tuned into season one in every of The Looking Wives, the straight-but-lesbian, sexy Republican homicide drama,” the sketch’s narrator declares.
The parody nails each hallmark of the present: the overly sensual “educating moments” between the lead ladies, gratuitous thigh-touching, horrible wigs, and — as a result of it’s nonetheless a sudsy thriller at coronary heart — wildly inappropriate relationships between adults and barely authorized teenagers.
Even Aubrey Plaza pops up as a brand new arrival to the neighborhood, an precise lesbian whose presence isn’t precisely welcomed by the Looking Wives themselves.
