Recording artist Dua Lipa just released her latest album this past week, so there’s no better time for the pop star to pull double duty as the host and musical guest of “Saturday Night Live.” Of course, her first time taking on the honor unfortunately comes after Ryan Gosling hosted a banger of an episode, packed with viral gems like the Beavis and ʙuтт-Head sketch. But if your expectations were firmly in check, then you probably enjoyed this lukewarm, fairly amusing but not raucously hilarious episode of “SNL.”

Thankfully, Dua Lipa turned out to be a solid host alongside her musical guest duties. She was game to jump into a variety of characters, didn’t severely derail any sketches with subpar performances, and she was even willing to make jokes at her own expense during the monologue. However, the sketches were not exactly of the highest quality, and though Dua Lipa did her best, the episode itself was simply average.

So instead of digging into the peaks and valleys of Dua Lipa’s “SNL,” we’ll basically be venturing up some small hills with slight inclines. But at least there weren’t any downright terrible sketches! Let’s get to it!

Recurring bits on “Saturday Night Live” often have diminishing returns, though there are exceptions. The first time Andrew Dismukes and James Austin Johnson appeared as Soul Booth musical duo, back when Jenna Ortega cut loose in her hosting debut on “SNL,” their efforts to give a legal firm a new jingle for their office phone number was one of the better sketches of the night. Now, they’re back, trying to give a flooring company the same treatment.

While it doesn’t work quite as well as the first time, I’ll never be tired of watching Dismukes and Johnson in this mode of play. They have the vibe of the “D*** in a Box” guys from The Lonely Island, and their fallback jingle that ends the sketch is rather catchy, though I wish they could have come up with another infectious melody instead of bringing back the same one from the first iteration. Bowen Yang does some heavy lifting here too, because listening to him emphatically wanting to be “daq’d down” at Lucciano’s was just as hilarious as the first time. In fact, Dua Lipa’s involvement was the one thing that improved the sketch, because her performance was made to be much more over the top than Jenna Ortega, who mostly played in straight in that original sketch. But here, Dua Lipa puts on a New York dialect and then gets involved in the music, and that’s another big part of why this one still worked so well.