Shows about the misadventures of twentysomethings are a television staple, but the TBS breakout Search Party -- with its sly combination of suspenseful thrills and tons of character-driven laughs -- is in a class all its own.
Alia Shawkat, whose rising profile includes work on Arrested Development and Transparent, plays Dory, the face of this ragtag search party. Dory’s restlessness to do something meaningful with her life leads her to look for former schoolmate Chantal Witherbottom after happening on a missing person sign at the series outset. She winds up dragging her reluctant friends into the search: her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend Drew (Stranger Things’ John Reynolds), her aggressively vapid-seeming besties Portia (Meredith Hagner, of Younger and Strangers on Facebook Watch) and Elliott (John Early, of the Wet Hot American Summer Netflix series and High Maintenance), and her ex-boyfriend-turned-journalist Julian (Brandon Micheal Hall, who also stars on The Mayor).
By the season one finale, the four friends...
Alia Shawkat, whose rising profile includes work on Arrested Development and Transparent, plays Dory, the face of this ragtag search party. Dory’s restlessness to do something meaningful with her life leads her to look for former schoolmate Chantal Witherbottom after happening on a missing person sign at the series outset. She winds up dragging her reluctant friends into the search: her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend Drew (Stranger Things’ John Reynolds), her aggressively vapid-seeming besties Portia (Meredith Hagner, of Younger and Strangers on Facebook Watch) and Elliott (John Early, of the Wet Hot American Summer Netflix series and High Maintenance), and her ex-boyfriend-turned-journalist Julian (Brandon Micheal Hall, who also stars on The Mayor).
By the season one finale, the four friends...
- 11/17/2017
- Entertainment Tonight
All ten episodes were provided prior to broadcast.
Complaints about millennials seem about as common as selfies at a tourist trap these days. It’s this ubiquity of generational hot takes that makes Search Party’s premise a little worrisome at first. TBS bills the new series—set for rapid release from November 21 to 25—as a dark comedy about a group of “self-absorbed 20-somethings” wrapped up in a strange mystery after an old college acquaintance unexpectedly vanishes. Co-creators Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers dubbed it a millennial satire. But it’s more playful than scathing, and there’s plenty on its mind.
Search Party drops into a gentrified Brooklyn (Williamsburg, specifically) full of rooftop parties, twee chic clothing, brunch, and people mostly trying to outdo each other. A poet Mfa named Chantal Witherbottom has gone missing after self-publishing a collection of work. Dory (Alia Shawkat) notices her long lost not-quite-friend...
Complaints about millennials seem about as common as selfies at a tourist trap these days. It’s this ubiquity of generational hot takes that makes Search Party’s premise a little worrisome at first. TBS bills the new series—set for rapid release from November 21 to 25—as a dark comedy about a group of “self-absorbed 20-somethings” wrapped up in a strange mystery after an old college acquaintance unexpectedly vanishes. Co-creators Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers dubbed it a millennial satire. But it’s more playful than scathing, and there’s plenty on its mind.
Search Party drops into a gentrified Brooklyn (Williamsburg, specifically) full of rooftop parties, twee chic clothing, brunch, and people mostly trying to outdo each other. A poet Mfa named Chantal Witherbottom has gone missing after self-publishing a collection of work. Dory (Alia Shawkat) notices her long lost not-quite-friend...
- 11/18/2016
- by Nathan Frontiero
- We Got This Covered
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