Kroll Show, "Finger Magnets"

This
was… a strange one. No two ways around that. Kroll
Show has been on such an incredible run, it had to have an off week
sometime. But I wouldn’t say that this was an outright bad episode, it just
made me laugh out loud less and lacked the completely seamless feel that so
many of its episodes can have. It also featured two new characters who were
introduced with barely any explanation and another who made perfect sense to me
but maybe flew over the head of some younger viewers. I appreciate the
audacity, though—Kroll and his writers aren’t just content to have PubLizIty
and the Rich Dicks run around for 22 minutes being assholes.
Still,
there’s a good amount of that, too. PubLizIty has discovered the brilliant
recurring gag that Big Liz NEVER remembers that Little Liz is pregnant. Her horrified
reaction at inopportune moments throughout the episode was one of the biggest
laughs of the episode. PubLizIty accomplishes even less than normal this week
because their put-upon assistant Cassandra leaves them for her own reality show
(more on that in a second) and replaces herself with a lazy, incompetent but
chipper gay guy (the incomparably funny Gabe Liedman, Jenny Slate’s comedy
partner and a writer on the show) who the girls just adore. They forgive his
transgressions and scream at Cassandra like they always do when she returns.
Poor Cassandra!