Sydney Sweeney hosted Saturday Night Live this weekend and while this wasn’t the weakest episode of the season, it also wasn’t the strongest. Not that this is her fault – SNL did with Sydney what they did with Jacob Elordi: so many of the live sketches had to do with the fact that she’s hot. Or maybe that’s what she’s leaning into herself, because it seemed like every other skit was giving Hooters, including an actual skit that had her in a Hooters t-shirt. 

 

I didn’t hate the Gen X TikTok detectives sketch, though, because…well… I’ve actually witnessed a this in my lifetime, a 20-year-old doing full CSI on someone in less than five minute but, like Dakota Johnson before her, Sydney’s best comedic moments, in my opinion, happened in the taped pieces, and especially when Bowen Yang was around. He is the MVP of the show right now, can we all agree? So of course the highlight of the week was the “Bowen’s Straight” sketch:

That’s the formula now for SNL – the more Bowen there is, the show becomes exponentially better. 

 

Going back to Sydney though and how, as noted last week, she turned her SNL into a fashion show and a victory lap, she went for in the monologue, not only with her outfit but with the content, addressing some of the noise around her own social media, including the rumours that she and Glen Powell were messing around on the set of Anyone But You: 

 

Her fiancé, Jonathan Davino, was indeed with Sydney on Saturday night and they were seen hand-in-hand together at the afterparty. You know how social media works though – once they’re convinced of something, they cannot be unconvinced. So I’m sure there’s already a theory about why Sydney and Jonathan are still together, or performing the fact that they’re still together, but that Sydney and Glen are really together-together for real for real. Or fo shiz for shiz. 

 

I prefer to discuss her choice of a white dress for the monologue. Guest hosts usually make their first appearance in black on SNL. It’s not all the time, but it’s an overwhelming majority of the time. This obviously was not in the plans for Sydney or her stylist Molly Dickson. She not only rejected black for the monologue, she actually went white… and custom: 

 

There was a couture moment in one of her portraits too:

It would appear then that there was a lot of thought put into her SNL debut – as there should be! She’s one of the hottest young stars in the business and she’s promoting a movie, using SNL as a major part of the press tour. Everyone is learning from Zendaya now. 

 

So, to wrap this all up, one more sidewalk-catwalk look that we didn’t get to on Friday because this might be my favourite of them all, and kind of unexpected: Sydney in Bottega Veneta, blue velvet, white boots, SO good.