Get on it.
If you haven’t been watching Search Party, why haven’t you been watching Search Party?
The dark comedy has been changing lives (mine) and breaking hearts (mine) ever since it dropped onto my All4 app last year.
The series follows the often dull and seemingly uneventful lives of four millennials living in New York.
The lead character, Dory (played by Alia Shawkat), is essentially super bored with her life so she decides to invest all her time and energy into trying to figure out the location of a missing girl she met in college.
What follows is a trail of total destruction, deceit, and confusion all triggered by the fact that some young one was literally just a bit bored and in need of attention one day.
However, the show’s first season ends with a Big Issue that forces the millennials to realise that sometimes your problems really aren’t that bad at all when compared to actual problems in the form of a Big Issue.
Basically, you should be watching the show.
Here are some reasons why:
1. Alia Shawkat is the star
She’s probably best known for playing Maeby Fünke in Arrested Development but she’s also made appearances in Broad City and The Final Girls.
She’s essentially a class actor who’s got an array of jazzy shirts that you’ll never get bored of looking at.
2. It’s genuinely funny
Yes, it’s a comedy, so yes, it should be funny, but lads, lots of comedies just aren’t these days.
3. … But also genuinely stressful
I like shows that affect me in some way.
Be it shows that make me happy, shows that make me sad, or shows that make me straight-up anxious, I will absolutely be a fan of them regardless.
Search Party makes me feel all of the above emotions at once – the marker of a great dark comedy.
4. It’s strangely relatable in an unnerving way
Search Party is about millennials, so understandably, Search Party is going to be relatable to millennials.
It’s got everything – alcohol-based brunches, intense social media use, complaints about problems that are not really problems, boredom, lies, over the top looks, and a load of people who are just extra as fuck and don’t really have a whole lot to do with their lives.
That being said, being able to see something of yourself in these characters is not really something to be proud of.
And I see a lot of myself in them.
The first two seasons of Search Party are available to watch now on All4.
