Drama Review: Saturday Night Live Korea: Season 10

10

Rating

★★★

Episodes

10

Drama digest

Saturday Night Live is a television reality show belonging to its original American franchise. Here we will discuss the information about Saturday Night Live-The South Korean version.

 

The feel-good part

The show is a humor-filled one providing entertainment through the famous celebrities. As these celebrities do a variety of skits and funny interviews, it becomes a complete entertainment.

 

The disappointing factor

As it is a show of a popular franchise, it is overrated. America’s SNL has run for a long time and hence the loyal audience of the show are least concerned about its quality deterioration.

 

In-depth analysis

Saturday Night Live Korea of SNLK is a reality show airing originally in the country of South Korea. It has been adapted from the original franchise of Saturday Night Live America. The show portrays genres of Sketch comedy, Variety, and Stand-up comedy. The official producers of the show are Lorne Michaels and Jennifer Danielson. The show’s original broadcaster was tvN. It ran weekly and aired at 22:50 KST with a runtime of an average of ninety minutes per episode. The show’s directors are four different people Yoo Sung-mo, Baek Seung-ryong, Kim Min, and Ha Byeong-hun. In all, 10 seasons have been aired till now. The first season aired in 2011. The original cast in the first season consisted of seventeen people.  The Korean version is almost similar to the American version including one host, the participants, and different skits in each episode. The host of this season was the infamous Korean anchor, Shin Dong Yup. The participants were Cha Chung Hwa, Wendy, Kwon Hyuk Soo, etc.

 

Star power

The host of the show, Shin Dong Yup is a well-known personality in the country of South Korea. He has hosted innumerable shows and taken multiple interviews of famous personalities, for example, BTS (The popular South Korean music group).

 

Overall opinion

It is a fun reality TV show to pass your time during the weekends. It is a straight up two-hour entertainment.