I think Bowen Yang is brilliant, and I think one of his great tricks is to have fallen in love with George Santos. Sure, there is contempt in his depiction of Santos, but you can also sense tremendous fondness for this lunatic.
The subtext of Yang's performance seems to be: "Doesn't one small part of you wish, at times, that you could be as outrageous as Mr. Santos?"
And so we have wonderful moments. Santos (Yang) writes a tribute to himself, to the tune of "Candle in the Wind," and he recalls a heated exchange: "They crawled out of the woodwork....Said I used their donations for Botox....And I said, it was FILLERS, slut...."
Also, Santos (Yang) mourns having been cut down in the prime of life; he is a victim, a proud seventeen-year-old Latina queen.
Finally, Santos (Yang) pulls a swaddled root vegetable from the innards of a piano, and says that he will now be focusing on the tasks of fatherhood.
An actor is a fabulist; there isn't much distance between a Santos and a de Niro. Trust Bowen Yang to notice this. I'm in awe.
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