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28 Jan

Will There Be a Search Party Season 5?

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This article contains spoilers for Search Party season 4. At this point, Search Party has done just about everything a dark comedy can be asked to do. Through four seasons, the show has: captured a Nancy Drew-style mystery through a millennial aesthetic, maneuvered through an unnerving, at times violent paranoid thriller, and deftly executed a wonky legal drama. Season 4 was to be the “captive” genre a la Misery and The Silence of the Lambs. And it successfully was…until the season’s final episode goes way, way off the reservation. This final half-hour finds our hero Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) unambiguously…
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21 Jan

How Search Party Season 4 Revels in Character Specificity

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This article contains spoilers for Search Party season 4 episodes 4 through 6. One of the most tried and true laws of the entertainment industry is: Ann Dowd makes everything better. The character actress livens up just about everything that she’s in, whether it’s as a shockingly charismatic cultist in Hereditary, a shockingly charismatic cultist in The Handmaid’s Tale, or a…shockingly charismatic cultist in The Leftovers. OK, so we might be boxing Anne in a bit here. When it came time to cast basically the exact opposite of a shockingly charismatic cultist in Search Party season 4, however, the show’s…
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21 Jan

Nancy Drew Season 2 Episode 1 Review: The Search for the Midnight Wraith

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This NANCY DREW review contains spoilers. Nancy Drew Season 2, Episode 1 The CW mystery series Nancy Drew returns for its second season with “The Search for the Midnight Wraith,” an hour that’s as confident, self-assured, and downright scary as the show has ever been. Technically, Nancy Drew’s first season came to an early end due to the coronavirus pandemic but watching the Season 2 premiere, it’s hard to tell that the story of the monstrous Aglaeca wasn’t always meant to carry over into the new season. “The Search for the Midnight Wraith” seamlessly weaves the dangers of its ongoing curse in…
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14 Jan

Search Party Season 4 Honors Misery and Other “Captive” Dramas

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This article contains spoilers for Search Party season 4 episodes 1-3. Through two seasons on TBS and one on HBO Max, Search Party has defied genre expectations. While ostensibly a comedy about young Brooklyn millennials, each new year of the show has brought another unexpected tone to the table.  Season 1 was a Nancy Drew-style mystery, with Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) and her friends searching for  their old missing college acquaintance Chantal Witherbottom (Clare McNulty). When that search went…poorly, season 2 dealt with the life and death consequences and added “paranoid thriller” to its genre collection. Season 3 then took…
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11 Jan

Search Party Season 4 Review (Spoiler-Free)

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This review is based on all ten half-hour episodes of Search Party season 4 and contains no spoilers. “But you told the truth, and the truth set you free…” Search Party debuted as a dark and provocative mystery and, even though each season has subscribed to that model, the show has evolved and become radically different each year. It’s not unusual for plot-heavy series to play chicken with their narrative in this way, but Search Party triumphs through each step of the progressively dark path that Dory heads down.  Search Party season 3 actively had the audience question if Dory…
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17 Dec

CIA Operative Joins the Search for Answers to the Roswell Mystery

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A former CIA operative is teaming up with the family of the first Army officer on the scene of an alleged crash of an alien spacecraft near Roswell, to search for the truth in a new three-part investigation for History’s Greatest Mysteries.  On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) distributed a press release claiming they had recovered the remains of a “flying disc” crashed in the New Mexican desert outside of Roswell. The news made headlines, but the media’s enthusiasm was short-lived. The next day the US Army released a second statement claiming the recovered object was…
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04 Jul

Cassidy Diamond is Search Party Season 3’s Vocal Fry Queen

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The following contains spoilers for Search Party season 3.  Search Party season 3 finds its core characters in a place they probably expected to be ever since the violent events of the show’s first season finale: on trial for their lives. Yes, after a tragic case of mistaken intentions winds up with Keith (Ron Livingston) dead, Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) and Drew Gardner (John Reynolds) finally end up in court on murder charges. Dory, Drew, and their friends Elliott Goss (John Early) and Portia Davenport (Meredeith Hagner) need a legal savior. They need…Cassidy Diamond. As portrayed by Shalita Grant (Santa…
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01 Jul

Search Party Season 3 and The Trial of the Millennial

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The following contains spoilers for every season of Search Party. On December 17, 2017, the second season of TBS’s mystery comedy Search Party concluded with a full steam of momentum. Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) had just committed a murder to cover up an accidental murder from season 1, and then is promptly arrested (for the first murder that is). As Dory is ushered into the back of a squad car while still wearing a shapely red dress from the night’s festivities, the future looks pretty bleak for her. For the show, however, the future couldn’t have looked brighter. Then that…
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