"Aidy's Dream" is a high-wire act of self-aware writing and purposely over-the-top acting — part live, in-studio sketch and part taped segment. Veteran cast member Aidy Bryant lays out the premise from a dressing room, explaining that after portraying teachers, moms, and middle-aged women 150 times on "SNL," the producers finally decided to let her play a younger, less inhibited bombshell type. For Bryant, that takes the form of a seductive 1940s-style femme fatale with whom handsome guest host Oscar Isaac is hopelessly, overwhelmingly, unabashedly in love.
Amidst clunky, starry-eyed romantic come-ons, Bryant pops in to explain that beforehand she lied to Isaac and claimed that her character is a popular recurring one called "The Sexual Woman." This forces her to make up a very crude catchphrase on the spot and explain why the cue cards have Isaac's character using his real name. It all works out as a bit of giddy, ridiculous, self-assured meta-comedy that allows Bryant to play a rare romantic lead while also commenting on typecasting traps.
