South Park Season 22

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After more than 15 years of standalone episodes, South Park embraced episode-to-episode continuity in Season 18, most memorably with a multi-episode arc about Randy Marsh as Lorde (ya ya ya). Each season since then has had varying degrees of serialization. At the tight end of the spectrum was Season 20, which told a season-long story about the 2016 election, following Mr. Garrison’s racism-fueled presidential run aided by internet trolls and the seductive power of nostalgia for a less complicated world (“member when there weren’t so many Mexicans?”). At the looser end, the just-concluded 22nd season carried a handful of plot lines across the episodes with only a few mostly standalone episodes mixed in (I say “mostly standalone” because even these episodes factored into the larger storylines).

The best iterations of serialization were Season 19, which introduced PC Principal and skewered PC culture in a way that felt cathartic in 2015, and the aforementioned Season 20. But Season 22 was less successful, with the light serialization making it feel overstuffed and under-focused. It sometimes had the feeling of “this isn’t quite working, so let’s add something else in and see if that helps.” South Park always has so many ideas that carrying them across episodes makes the show feel chaotic, like there’s just too much going on. It’s enough to make one yearn for the simpler times when maybe there was one three-part episode every now and then. (member Imaginationland?)

-Liam Mathews

Episode 2 : What courage, what daring, what intelligence. South Park often dismissed as a show for decadent teenagers elevate itself above anything else on TV by going against the petty prejudices, against the lazy “lieux communs”. De l’audace, toujours de l’audace, Messieurs! Chapeaux bas!
Episode 1:
Eric Cartmann is officially the greatest satirical character in America. It is incredible that only through an animated character can someone say the truth about a movie, just because of “racial” or “PC”paralysis. Black Panther is utter crap. It is obvious but a Colbert or a Seth Meyer doesn’t have the balls to say it…anymore!
It is amazing that only South Park, only this single show, can find the finesse to take on this topic. All the rest of American culture is so desperately “manichean” as we say in French (black or white).
On the negative side, the school shooting stuff was drawn out by 15 minutes in that first episode.

– OlivierPiel

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Actors: Trey Parker
Directors: Various
Format: NTSC, Subtitled
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 2
Rated: NR – Not Rated
Studio: Comedy Central
DVD Release Date: May 28, 2019
Run Time: 223 minutes
ASIN: B07PNKDZTV