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Wednesday 28 November 2018

South Park Takes a Major Nosedive

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Warning: Full spoilers for the episode below.

Early on in this week’s South Park episode, we see Cartman ranting about ManBearPig, electric scooters, Black Panther being a lousy movie and pretty much every other recurring plot point from Season 22 so far. Cartman is sure it’s all somehow connected, even if he can’t quite put his finger on it. Cartman seems to be giving voice to the the frustrations of the South Park writing staff in that moment. They seem to want to tie together all the season’s loose ends in a neat little package. But it’s clearly not working, and the end result is the underwhelming “Buddha Box.”

“Buddha Box” tended to play to the show’s worst impulses in terms of taking good jokes and beating them into the ground until there’s nothing but dust left. Both halves of the conflict this week were basically one-note gags stretched well past the breaking point. On one hand, you have Cartman faking anxiety as a way of spending more time on his phone. On the other, you have the PC Babies crying at all the minor social injustices of the world. Neither plot point had nearly enough meat to support an entire episode.

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