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‘Search Party’ Season 4: The Searcher Goes Missing As The HBO Max Series Really Finds Itself [Review]

January 7, 2021 2:58 pm

“Search Party” started as the story of a search for a missing girl who never really wanted to be found. Everything that’s happened since that series premiere has been a repercussion of a decision to look for s...

‘Search Party’ Season 4 Trailer: Stalkers, Imprisonment, & The Search For Dory

Rodrigo Perez

January 5, 2021 1:17 pm

News, Television, Trailers

At the risk of being redundant, the tag line for "Search Party" season four — "it stopped being a party a long time ago" — kind of says it all. What started on TBS, as a millennial angst comedy about identity ...

‘Search Party’ Season 4 Teaser Trailer: HBO Max’s Alia Shawkat-Led Dark Comedy Series Returns January 14

Rodrigo Perez

December 15, 2020 4:00 pm

News, Television, Trailers

'It stopped being a party a long time ago," is the new tagline for season four of HBO Max's "Search Party" and ain't that the truth. Originally on TBS, "Search Party" was seemingly a fun, amusing, hip, funny s...

‘The Afterparty’: Tiffany Haddish, Ilana Glazer, Dave Franco & More To Star In Lord & Miller’s Apple TV+ Series

Charles Barfield

November 11, 2020 12:54 pm

News, Television

Phil Lord and Chris Miller are filmmakers that really have earned our trust over the past several years. Thanks to films like “The LEGO Movie,” the ‘21 Jump Street’ franchise, and “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-...

‘Search Party’ Creators On The Unpredictable Evolution Of Their Irreverent Millennial Murder Mystery Comedy [Interview]

Rodrigo Perez

July 10, 2020 2:19 pm

Features, Interviews, News, Television

Created by “Fort Tilden” writer/directors Charles Rogers, Sarah-Violet Bliss, and filmmaker Michael Showalter ("The Big Sick"), the series “Search Party” has become one of the sharpest, unpredictable, and insi...

‘Search Party’ Season 3 Trailer: Still Self-Absorbed, But Now Famous For Murder

Halli Goldman

June 15, 2020 12:07 pm

News, Television, Trailers

As the bevy of new streaming platforms fight for dominance or, in some cases, simply try to prove there is a reason for their existence (looking at you, Quibi), one unlikely contender has jumped ahead of the p...

‘Search Party’: The Dark Comedic Path Of No Return Turns Surreal In Season 3 [Review]

Brian Tallerico

June 11, 2020 1:05 pm

Features, News, Reviews, Television

“Search Party” began with a missing girl and became a show about another girl who has gone missing in her own way. But its transformation along the way— from self-absorbed millennial comedy, to paranoid murder...

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