Surprisingly timid and lacking in substance for a two-parter episode they hyped so much. If you see the beginning of the episode, you've basically seen everything of substance the episode has, once they leave PC Principal's office there's little in terms of "biting satire" or actual story. As the writers of Family Guy once noted about Matt and Trey, they think up a single joke and then they write an episode.
Yeah there's an alternate dimension where all the characters in South Park are "diverse" women of color. That's the joke. It's not a bad joke, and they manage to retell it a few times in ways that are funny. And then you still have around 30-35 minutes of episode left to go. Yup guys, Hollywood is making weirdly desperate, "left-wing" pandering films and TV shows. And it sure is silly. Oh, and they're losing money like you can't believe. In case you didn't have a TV to know about that, now you do.
But then they have literally nowhere to go with it. Off to the side Randy goes through a B plot where AI now makes knowledge based jobs useless and he can't hire a handyman because their services are too in demand. And then handymen are billionaires and go to space. There's literally no through line to any of it, it just references real life things like it's making a point, but it doesn't make any points and the story doesn't go anywhere. Maybe they had AI literally write that subplot. It feels like they did, and it was as funny as if they did, because it wasn't funny.
Anyway, back with the Panderverse, we find out there was a magic panderstone that Kathleen Kennedy used to make movies that pandered to diverse audiences. And it worked at first but then she did it too hard because people were mean to her and wrote mean letters. Yeah, I guess if you were pressed for time and needed to hang some shaggy dog story on this premise, that'll do. Doubt Kathleen reads much fan mail. And also, I can't think of any pandering movies that do well. Ghostbusters in 2016 was a big flop, though that wasn't really meant to pander, it just was a bad marketing idea following Paul Feig and the fat lady who starred in it getting in fights with 13 year-olds on the internet that they thought were with real adults. Then in 2019 they made a bunch like Terminator Deep Fake, Charlie's Angels, and Harley Quinn and they were all massive losers.
A magic stone and a female Cartman who replaces Kathleen Kennedy don't do much to satirize things, and don't really connect with reality in such a way that you even could satirize things with them, they're just random nonsense that feels really lazy. And the episode after the very beginning is not laugh free, but it's about one laugh every five minutes or so, and no big laughs.
Not sure what there is to get out of this episode unless you're a huge South Park fanboy. It's alright, not especially biting, not especially relevant, not especially funny. Yeah, Hollywood exists in a weird leftist bubble, and all those movies they make that you, like the rest of America, aren't going to see seem rather odd because of it. Okay, got it, thanks Matt and Trey, very insightful.
Yeah there's an alternate dimension where all the characters in South Park are "diverse" women of color. That's the joke. It's not a bad joke, and they manage to retell it a few times in ways that are funny. And then you still have around 30-35 minutes of episode left to go. Yup guys, Hollywood is making weirdly desperate, "left-wing" pandering films and TV shows. And it sure is silly. Oh, and they're losing money like you can't believe. In case you didn't have a TV to know about that, now you do.
But then they have literally nowhere to go with it. Off to the side Randy goes through a B plot where AI now makes knowledge based jobs useless and he can't hire a handyman because their services are too in demand. And then handymen are billionaires and go to space. There's literally no through line to any of it, it just references real life things like it's making a point, but it doesn't make any points and the story doesn't go anywhere. Maybe they had AI literally write that subplot. It feels like they did, and it was as funny as if they did, because it wasn't funny.
Anyway, back with the Panderverse, we find out there was a magic panderstone that Kathleen Kennedy used to make movies that pandered to diverse audiences. And it worked at first but then she did it too hard because people were mean to her and wrote mean letters. Yeah, I guess if you were pressed for time and needed to hang some shaggy dog story on this premise, that'll do. Doubt Kathleen reads much fan mail. And also, I can't think of any pandering movies that do well. Ghostbusters in 2016 was a big flop, though that wasn't really meant to pander, it just was a bad marketing idea following Paul Feig and the fat lady who starred in it getting in fights with 13 year-olds on the internet that they thought were with real adults. Then in 2019 they made a bunch like Terminator Deep Fake, Charlie's Angels, and Harley Quinn and they were all massive losers.
A magic stone and a female Cartman who replaces Kathleen Kennedy don't do much to satirize things, and don't really connect with reality in such a way that you even could satirize things with them, they're just random nonsense that feels really lazy. And the episode after the very beginning is not laugh free, but it's about one laugh every five minutes or so, and no big laughs.
Not sure what there is to get out of this episode unless you're a huge South Park fanboy. It's alright, not especially biting, not especially relevant, not especially funny. Yeah, Hollywood exists in a weird leftist bubble, and all those movies they make that you, like the rest of America, aren't going to see seem rather odd because of it. Okay, got it, thanks Matt and Trey, very insightful.