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By Robert Scucci
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For the first time in my life, I’m going down to South Park with protected enthusiasm. The show I’ve adapted since the third grade has taken a media friendly turn for the worse because it loses one key element: boys are boys. Season 27 is not about the children. It is about the non -stop political commentary that already floods all other media sources.
Escape is more important now than ever, and South Park used to nail the balance between building an absurd world and sharp, timely satire. Now, it deviates so hard to politics that the fun has disappeared. If I wanted lazy “Trump is an orange man with little jokes” I would tuned in Late night with Seth Meyers. Instead, I get more of the same show that could once just thrive on chaos that could cause.
I’m super cereal.
I stayed all year 27 after Trey Parker and Matt Stone announced plans to hold the production away until after the 2024 election to stay clear of politics. But in the wake of their messy Of the weighting Deal, they could not withstand the prompt of the bear. While I admire them for taking photos in the organization, I’m ready for them to take some chapters out on the boys.
Boys are still boys bread and south park butter
If you own South Park DVDs or have listened to the small chapter commentaries all available on YoutubeYou will notice how Trey Parker and Matt Stone were repeatedly flowing over the episodes focused on Kyle, Kenny, Cartman, Stan, Butters, and the rest of their classmates.
Dressed up as superheroes, wizards, or ninjas, or entered Warcraft world For their own good, there are classic traps South Park a chapter that holds up. The comedy works because it’s based on dirty grade school friends who try to make sense of talking towels, alien invasions, and whatever disaster their curiosity releases on their ungodly and invasive authority figures.
Episodes like “Scott tenorman must die,” “Making love, not warcraft,” “Return of the ring of the ring to the two tower,” “good times with weapons,” “Casa Bonita,” and “Aesom-o” all sitting on top South Park IMDB audience scales because the formula works. Most of the best 100 episodes of the series give the boys full control of the narrative, proving that the boys alone can release a level of chaos that is truly non -time.
Record scales and the lowest common denominator
South Park The Première of Season 27, “A Sermon on the Mount,” drew a record number with the highest viewers the series has seen in over 25 years. It also holds a 9.4 score on IMDB and sits in number four among fan favorites from this writing. But it is the exception of season 27, not the rule. I suspect will stay in the ten long -term.
The unlucky excavations landed the episode in Trump’s alleged little junk with fans and newcomers, and her timing helped to gather his positive reception. He broadcast hours after Parker and Stone signed a $ 1.5 billion streaming deal with Of the weightingDid just settle a legal case filed against them by Trump. You can’t really blame them for hitting while the iron is hot and gives the paramount a huge middle finger before the ink on their contract is fully drying.
But high viewers do not always mean that great art is produced. This becomes apparent when you look at the rest of the Season 27 audience scales. The second episode, “Got a Nut,” is currently 72nd. Next, “Illness,” falls all the way to 246th out of 325, making it one of the worst reviewed in the series.
South Park A signature sense of social satire still drips from each frame, but season 27 will continue to see discounted earnings if its creators are still trying to double down on the success of “a sermon on the mount”.
Reach back to the playground
There is still a promise, though, because Parker and Stone seem to realize the season of 27 course in the form of the South Park reclaiming boys. “Sickofancy” is not a top tier episode, but marks a stylistic change by forcing Randy Marsh to sell Tegrity farms and move his family back to town after years of a mixed fan reception with the story line. With the bogs back in South Park, Stan is in the neighborhood again and is more likely to cause trouble with the rest of the boys.
Antagonizing the President was fun for a while, but now it’s time to get the boys back on the playground.
