Sabrina Carpenter, the beautiful, hilarious pop princess that she is, now has a Netflix special, “A Nonsense Christmas With Sabrina Carpenter,” released on Dec. 6. This special was the equivalent of a holiday, girly Saturday Night Live episode.
Carpenter spent this 49-minute show performing songs from her Christmas EP “fruitcake” in various beautiful costumes. While all of the costumes had a holiday flare, they were primarily focused on accenting Carpenter’s absolutely perfect features.
The special also featured many guest stars, musical and comedic. The musical guests were all women and mostly new to the industry. Honestly, I need every duet on Spotify immediately. I can’t even choose my favorite one.
Tyla appeared in a cute red bow outfit and sang “This Christmas,” and Carpenter took the low harmony, which I was so impressed with, and they both sounded absolutely lovely. In contrast, Carpenter sang “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” with Kali Uchis, where she took the high note and showed off her gorgeous vocal range.
Musical guest appearances also included Chappell Roan and Shaina Twain, both appearing in festive costumes and singing “Last Christmas” and “Santa Baby”. Twain also appeared in a skit alongside Sean Astin, Santa Claus, Megan Stalter and Owen Thiele.
In the skit, Stalter and Thiele played Carpenter’s concerned friends about a long-distance boyfriend that she was involved with. The boyfriend, Nick, was very obviously Santa Claus, even though Carpenter’s character, Debbie, was very defensive about how he was not. Finally, it was revealed that Nick was in an open marriage with Shaina Twain herself… for over 400 years.
That was not the only skit in the show. There was also this really funny autotuned family gathering where Carpenter sang and spoke about how she had no idea what to get her brother-in-law, played by Kyle Mooney, and it had a hilarious, awkward family gathering feel that Carpenter was undoubtedly going for.
I think the most surprising guest to me was Cara Delevingne, who appeared in another skit based on “A Christmas Carol,” where Delevingne was the ghost of “ghosted” future. This performance featured Nico Hiraga as a modern Scrooge. He was the classic tech-bro influencer wanna-be with a complete disregard for women’s feelings.
Carpenter played “Ghosted Past,” Quinta Brunson was “Ghosted” Present,” and of course, Delevinge was Future. Basically, the three women were all love interests of this “Ebby,” derived from Ebenezer Scrooge, and visited him to insist he change his ways and start having honest conversations about whether or not he wants to continue relationships. The skit ended with a very lovely message, “To the ghosters on the naughty list, learn from this.”
There was also this continuous bit where some of Carpenter’s guest stars would sing Nonsense outro suggestions to her. Delevinge, Mooney and Thiele had these little moments, and Carpenter nailed the comedic disgust each time.
Aside from the skits and musical guests, Carpenter is a comedic genius and beautiful artist on her own performace other songs “cindy lou who,” “santa doesn’t know you like i do” and “buy me presents.” Again, in beautiful costumes and with lovely set design.
Part of the stage was a lit staircase much like the one featured in many old, iconic performances like Marilyn Monroe’s “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend,” which was fitting since Carpenter also donned a replica of the costume for her first song.
Carpenter also had a little house set up where many of the skits took place. There was a small kitchen and living room decorated with lots of beautiful Christmas cheer, and did I mention it was all pink? It was absolutely amazing and is now the inspiration I will use for my future home.
The home also had the classic vintage feel that Carpenter’s brand has really started working with, which I absolutely love. To add to the ambiance, much of the font used, kitchen appliances and even the way they shot the special was inspired by vintage aesthetics.
There was even a little segment of Carpenter at a backstage vanity where she told a story about how, on Christmas as a child, she did not really care about the presents but was mainly focused on having chocolate cake. They also included adorable camcorder footage of Carpenter when she was little, showing the validity of the story.
As per Carpenter’s brand of being hot and horny, there were many innuendos and jokes made that were, of course, funny, but like Carpenter said in her parody, “The Most Nonsense Time of the Year,” it is rated TV-14, so it is okay… but I would not recommend this for family movie night.
From making some espresso martinis in her little pink kitchen to receiving a vibrating “massager” during her last performance of “A Nonsense Christmas,” I am completely, indescribably jealous of the live studio audience that got to see Sabrina Claus in full action, and I would have sold my soul to be one of them.
