South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2

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.

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? ***

What's the point of repeating the celebrities backing up for pipi+? Being sarcastic? Once would have been enough. There's no fun in it at all and it's way too disgusting.

Tegrity Weed should've been a one- or two- episode thing, but it lasted for years and the idea of this weed thing never make any sense. Many characters had been out-of-character for a long long time, the most terrible ones were Randy and Garrison. Hope to see the whole show get to "normal" soon. I love South Park, I don't want it cancelled, or live on like the recent seasons.

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 is the kind of television you can enjoy if you afford it a lot of goodwill. It made me laugh twice, which is more than most shows these days, but it's not like the heights of the show back in the day.

What I will say though is that it's becoming very clear that Trey and Matt feel pretty nostalgic about the earlier seasons, and for what it's worth, I think that's a good thing. They clearly have respect for what made South Park good in the first place and they want to honor that.

I think the problem comes with the fact that these meta-narratives are getting a little rediculous. This feels like something a talented fan fiction writer would make and feel proud of themselves about, but not an actual South Park episode.

I think it's getting clear that these characters might be getting a little thin for now. Honestly, focusing on the adult versions of these characters and their families seems like it's becoming more and more of an essential development.