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Not really sure why South Park is getting so much praise these days. Very little has changed from the previous seasons in terms of its outrageousness and the th
by en4bz 11y ago
Not really sure why South Park is getting so much praise these days. Very little has changed from the previous seasons in terms of its outrageousness and the things it satirizes.
I think the creators are just doing what they usually do which is take advantage of a controversial topic and satirize it. I guess it just so happens that more people care about the topic at hand (political correctness) and empathize with it.
- bedhead 11y agoWhat's changed is that the subjects of satire have become far more worthy of it.
- gizmo686 11y agoThis also is, to my recollection, the first time that they took one topic and went with it for a whole season. That is not to say that they deliberately singled this topic out for more attention; rather, it seems to be following a trend that they started last season where it felt like they experimented with more season long connections.
- empressplay 11y agoI read somewhere (on Facebook FWIW) that the storyline for this season was originally pitched as another South Park movie. When it didn't get up as a movie, they decided to make a season out of it instead.
- en4bz 11y agoNot really though, last year they had Randy play Lorde for the whole season. And they've been doing 2-3 episode stories for a while. Even in this season the Yelp episode was off topic from the main plot.
- remarkEon 11y ago-> Even in this season the Yelp episode was off topic from the main plot. Was it, though? It seemed like the the chiding of Yelpers directly ties in to how people take their (perhaps authoritarian) views and opinions on things as sacrosanct and beyond reproach. In the same way that the PC Bros feel they're obligated to check everyone's privilege, the Yelpers felt like, if they weren't reviewing, no one would know anything about eating.
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