Key & Peele Review: "MC Mom" (5.07) - Paste Magazine
Although this week’s episode of Key & Peele features one of my favorite sketches to date, it’s overall not the strongest offering from the duo’s fifth season. Of course, there are plenty of hilarious moments, and a particularly strong first act that sets it all into motion. The first few frames of this week’s episode show Peele behind the wheel of a green Chevrolet convertible, wielding a handgun as he drives down a residential street. It’s a gangster scene lifted straight from popular culture, at least until a later cut-to totally tears down that façade. The car takes the props cake for sure, but the other remarkably lackluster objects (including a licorice gun, which is a close runner up) do a nice job of turning what was previously flashy into signifiers of a total character front. The proverbial cherry on this zinger is Peele taking a bite out of his candy gun, and the reaction it gets from people watching it all go down. This whole act was one of my favorite moments from this week’s show, and a nice way to get things started. This is my favorite sketch of the season. I said it, I believe it, I stand by it. I feel pretty confident that a lot of you folks dug it a whole lot, too. In this sketch, Key is a very, very unfortunate college student, whose custom DVD from mom has fallen into the hands of his friends. Source: www.pastemagazine.com
