South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2

I'm continuing to feel that none of these really require the Paramount+ runtime, and are regular episodes worth of material stretched out. But i just adjust my mindset accordingly, i'm watching a "special" episode, and it's not a problem really. Very decent, far from perfect, and not exactly great, but very decent. Randy is gonna be actually himself from this on, i'm so happy!

This show has been going downhill for a while. While the new episode did contain some laughs, it was mostly toilet humor and nothing laugh-out-loud funny. It's not sure if it wants to be social satire or an adventure show. Either way I think Matt and Trey are getting too old to make a show revolving around 10-year-old boys, and now have to make the show revolve around Randy. This has also (as they admit in the episode) ruined the character of Randy as well.

I feel like they don't really know what to do with the show at this point and try to use stale memes (Karen) in order to stay relevant. They did something similar with the tiresome Mr. Garrison as Trump gag. It might be time to call it quits.

Not overly funny, just appropriately targeted satire at streaming, crypto, and celebrities, especially spot on criticism of streaming services not obtaining talent, especially considering I also watched the abomination that was Netflix Resident Evil also today, no amount of properties are gonna matter without any talent to actually make them good.

This is labeled as a movie, but it really is more of another special. I like the episodes better. This movie/special features a drought coming everywhere with Pi-Pi taking advantage of the situation by using pee for his water park, or I guess pee park is more accurate. We learn that Manbearpig has a family and Pi-Pi is using them to control them. I really did like the use of celebrities here. I thought that Randy would be returning to his form.

I was annoyed at how he was just going back to what he was doing earlier. At least we get a nice resolution and good pacing from the previous installment. It could have used more jokes. It was good how the celebrities were more disgusting by what was going on than the audience. That's how comedy should work. They mentioned events that happened three years ago, yet how are the characters the same age? ***

It's somewhat nonsensical and it relies on literal toilet humor. But it's entertaining and short enough that you don't get too bored by it. It's still a weaker South Park than seasons past and doesn't target as much of the current political climate but it does live up to the premise. Streaming services are helping create lower quality programming to fill their broadcast slots. This is a lower quality than normal for South Park but that could be simply because it's stretched out over 50 minutes instead of a tight 22.