Overview
- Hosting Saturday Night Live for the first time, Finn Wolfhard led the live show in New York on Saturday night.
- Caleb McLaughlin and Gaten Matarazzo interrupted the monologue for an on‑air reunion, joking about being former child stars and toasting Wolfhard’s debut.
- Wolfhard’s monologue included a puberty anecdote that cut to a Demogorgon visual, which many social media users criticized as degrading to women’s bodies.
- A Sex and the City–style bar sketch revisiting their Stranger Things characters featured a line about Max “lying there as if she were back in a coma,” prompting further online condemnation.
- The episode also included a Harry Potter–inspired “Heated Wizardry” parody nodding to HBO’s Heated Rivalry and a Jason Momoa cameo, with A$AP Rocky as the musical guest and no formal response from SNL or the cast reported.