Ryan Reynolds seemed to be on board for providing male eye candy on par with Megan Fox’s season opener last week, until Reynolds turned out to appear in surprising little of this week’s SNL episode, overshadowed by Lady Gaga, who contributed not just two long performances, but two sketch appearances, including one pitting her against Madonna — whose lack of close-ups led me to take several minutes to figure out whether it was her, Abby Elliott, or an extremely fast-changing Kristen Wiig.

Vance ranks the new shows he’s checked out from best to worst. Where did you think he put Glee and Modern Family? (Tapeworthy)

In the wake of the much ballyhooed Jenny Slate controversy, Kyle examined indecency, SNL, the FCC and drew one conclusion — who cares? (TiFaux)

As the third season of Mad Men rolls on, BuzzSugar’s got the rundown on what other projects the talented ladies of the show have lined up. (BuzzSugar)

This week, we took a first look at Al Pacino in HBO’s new original movie, You Don’t Know Jack. (Daemon’s TV)

Trauma may not have had the best pilot ever, but hey, it had a fingerless Buddy Garrity. (Scooter McGavin’s 9th Green)