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In Its Second Season, 'Search Party' Finds New, Even Darker, Life

Last season, four morally bankrupt friends found the missing Chantal. Now, the TBS series shifts focus, and genre — from blackly comic mystery to acidly funny suspense.
The Search is Over, The Party's Just Begun: Dory (Alia Shawkat), Drew (John Reynolds), Portia (Meredith Hagner) and Elliott (John Early) go shopping for human empathy in the TBS series <em>Search Party</em>.

This article discusses plot details of Search Party's first season.

Search Party isn't for everyone.

But of course, nothing worthwhile is.

To determine if it's your kind of thing, here's a litmus test (which seems only fitting, given the series' blithely acidic sense of humor).

It's a throwaway line delivered, with performative, clutch-the-pearls moral indignation, by Elliott (John Early). He's expressing disgust at the fact that Chantal — the missing woman whom

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