SEARCH PARTY
The brilliant, genre-defying SEARCH PARTY (trailer here) is back for its fifth and final season and it truly feels like the bittersweet end of an era. The series—created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers (writer-directors of our incredible comedy-thriller project, MONSTER!) and Michael Showalter—began as a Nancy-Drew-esque mystery in its first season, as Dory (Alia Shawkat) and her wayward group of friends (John Paul Reynolds, Meredith Hagner, and my idol John Early) searched for a girl they went to college with had gone missing. The series continually shapeshifted into a psychological thriller, a courtroom drama, and most recently, a captive drama à la MISERY, in its fourth season when Dory was kidnapped by The Twink (the phenomenal Cole Escola) and his mother (Susan Sarandon). But no matter how many times it's boldly reinvented itself, SEARCH PARTY has remained an outrageous, unruly comedy that explores abuses of power, narcissism, and the struggle to feel validated in ways that few shows on television have ever dared to. This certainly applies in season five, which picks up right where we left off, with Dory left for dead in The Twink’s burning basement and suddenly waking up in the back of an ambulance—alive! In the season five premiere, we learn that Dory did, in fact, die for 37 seconds...but she’s woken up with a newfound purpose—a life-affirming sense of enlightenment that she simply must share with the world. The season five premiere sets the stage for what might be SEARCH PARTY’s wildest season yet, rounded out with guest appearances from Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Griffin and John Waters. If you need me this weekend...you know where to find me. And if you haven’t started SEARCH PARTY yet for some reason, all five highly bingeable seasons are on HBOMax now. GO!!!
—Neal Mulani, Development Assistant
