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Search Partyis back from the dead, and so is Dory.
My name is Bethy, and Ill be recapping this final season of Millennial Narc Theater.
Will Dorys narcissism actually end the world?
Also, should the world maybe end?
AtVulturefest, John Early said thatSearch Partyis the only show that acknowledges that we live in hell.
If the hell-world ofSearch Partyends, it might be a big relief for those consigned to it.
We start whereseason four ended: Dory waking up from her death/fantasy funeral.
Dory was dead for 37 seconds, and now she thinks she has perfect clarity on all things.
Drew and Portia settle for each other, and it is gross.
But, like, organically.
Dont attempt to force it because then the magic is gone.
This is a fascinating relationship approach, and I would read Elliotts self-help book on the matter.
Because, really, its not like people ever fix themselves enough to be 24/7 loving and stable partners.
Better to telegraph your punches, so the person you claim to love can dodge them, right?
Something to think about.
Six months later, and everyone is still in their weird holding patterns.
They visit a concierge adoption service called Kiddos, which seems to genetically engineer children for the Uber-wealthy.
Kiddos front man is played by John Waters, and I hope he comes back.
Who doesnt want more John Waters?
The baby they want to design is too complicated for even Kiddos very fancy gene-splicing system.
And Elliott wants a son that feels like a dad, one that will parent his fathers.
Dr. John Waters recommends their first-ever bio-breed child, 9-year-old Aspen.
They add him to their shopping cart.
And with that, become parents.
For Drew, at least, Dory seemed to be the worst thing that ever happened to him.
From a sad pawn to a proactive ghoul: What kind of progress is that?
And Portia has gotten lowlights!
Honey-colored toning on her once ingenue blonde.
Its almost more upsetting than her day drinking.
Portia has become one ofthoseacting teachers, the vicariously-living-through-their-students punch in.
She advises her pupils to quit before they know true rejection.
Dear God, she needs to be someones favorite person, stat.
Portia and Drew go over to Elliott and Marcs new place to meet little Aspen.
He is a fullOmenkid, making prolonged eye contact with Drew and smiling as he pisses himself.
If Dory is right, and the apocalypse is coming, we have ourselves an Antichrist in Aspen.
Drew and Portia keep their thing secret, seemingly because Portia is ashamed.
But Aspen can smell them on each other.
Were adults, Drew says, and adults dont care about making a difference!
They actually toast to giving up on their ideals.
Those that survived acquired more wealth and the politics to maintain that wealth.
Dory isnt giving up on the world, however.
She wants to get out of the hospital to spread her message to the people.
The realization that she has come to is comically vague.
Dory tells her doctors that she finally has a purpose, which is a bone-chilling statement coming from her.
At least one doctor, Dr. Lombardo, believes in her mission.
(He may be a figment of her imagination?
Trapped once again in the hospital, Dory has a vision/hallucination/delusion of dozens of dead bodies on the ground.
Portia is screaming that everyone is dead, and the ceiling is bleeding.
And yet Id still rather be her than Drew at this point.
Kiddos is a littleBlack Mirrorinstead ofSearch Party, no?
The show has always had a tinge of surreality but usually with hallucinating Ron Livingston, not sci-fi elements.
Where is Kathy Griffin?I was promised Kathy Griffin.
I love how the sound designers always layer in Obedear whenever Dory is giving in to her worst impulses.
It is her siren song of having a purpose, and its always a fucking liar.
