I missed South Park's initial 1997 series launch and the 1999 movie because I was not born yet. I enjoyed viral clips of the creators satirizing the 2016 election, but I never watched episodes. I maintained a 24-year pattern of passively disregarding South Park due to its iconic status rather than its political incorrectness. Season 27's hype, peer enthusiasm and a colleague's shared screenshots prompted me to watch. The season's audacious satire of its network and its Nathan Fielder-like approach appealed, offering temporary relief from bleak news.
Even when I was finally alive and (more importantly) consciously dictating my own media diet, enjoying viral clips of Matt Stone and Trey Parker satirizing the 2016 election, I never flipped on the tube and caught an episode. I continued my pre-natal tendency of passively disregarding whatever South Park was up to for 24 long years. This month, I broke that streak.
The hype of South Park Season 27 got to me. Maybe it was the fact that everyone and their mother was talking about it (my colleague Liz Shannon Miller literally shared screenshots of her mom gushing over the season premiere), or maybe it was the ballsiness of taking their own network to task à la The Rehearsal in a manner that appealed to my Nathan Fielder-loving ass.
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