It's not completely accurate to call Parallel Lives, formerly known as The Kathy (Najimy) and Mo (Gaffney) Show, a sketch comedy, as it isn't very funny for long stretches of time - often intentionally. It's more like an evening of two-person scenes, several of which are comic, most of which are entertaining and one of which is a direct sociopolitical statement. Of course, Saturday Night Live was never merely sketch comedy, either, yet that's what we call it; so let's be reductive and approach Parallel Lives as a sketch comedy. Like every episode of SNL, it's hit and miss. Moreover, as is usually true for SNL, the funniest bits are front-loaded in the show.

Read my full review here.

Parallel Lives

Through Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Thursday–Saturday, $12
The Midnight Sun Performance Space
113 N. Columbia St., Olympia
360.250.2721