A few years ago, there was a run of documentaries about various Lakers and Celtics teams, each project featuring some selection of identical talking heads, giving the impression that there must’ve been a junket somewhere with Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Shaq, Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan and a few others sitting in hotel rooms, being visited by a procession of directors asking about the same iconic playoff games and historical intersections. The documentaries felt separate, but the same.
More recently, it’s happened again with all things Saturday Night Live. There were four short docs released under the SNL50 banner, plus Questlove’s Ladies & Gentlemen…50 Years of SNL Music and Brent Hodge’s Downey Wrote That, all on Peacock and boasting myriad overlapping talking heads, filming locations and generally celebratory approaches to the beloved sketch show. Then there were the documentaries focusing on Saturday Night Live cast members Chevy Chase and
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