Also, SNL’s True Crime Murder Song is Very Funny

So, this weekend, every one of us on the CrimeReads staff received texts and emails and notifications from those who know us (people and the internet) to inform us about a new musical sketch that premiered on Saturday Night Live, in which several women, played by Kate McKinnon, Melissa Villaseñor, Ego Nwodim, and Chloe Fineman, reveal their secret loves of murdery true crime shows. So we’re posting it here, in case you missed it, because it is not to be missed. You’re going to laugh, trust us.

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Olivia Rutigliano

Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads, and a book editor at their parent company Grove Atlantic. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, PBS Television, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the segment "Culture Schlock" of the Lit Hub Podcast. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.

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