One of the biggest challenges for Saturday Night Live on a weekly basis is managing expectations when it comes to the show's hosts. If a Josh Hutcherson or LeBron James episode turns out to be not-half-bad, we're all pleasantly surprised and relieved since the bar wasn't that high. But when a reliable comic dynamo shows up — Justin Timberlake, Alec Baldwin, Melissa McCarthy — hopes get raised to potentially unrealistic proportions, possibly resulting in a perfectly Ok episode that ends up feeling disappointing because we expected more.
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