Search Party Season 3 is a study in dishonesty and the many ways in which grown adults tell lies about who they are

Vulture

"Against what initially seem like long odds given that it was filmed two years ago, the third season of Search Party not only finds its satirical groove but manages to find a measure of currency by focusing on how a pair of white, privileged millennials wind their way through the justice system when they go on trial for murder," says Jen Chaney. "The season is also a study in dishonesty and the many ways in which grown adults tell lies about who they are. In a lot of films and TV shows about young New Yorkers, the main characters are still trying to figure out who they are. In Search Party, they’re trying to figure out which version of themselves is most advantageous to be."

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• Alia Shawkat has been grappling with why she uttered the N-word after her apology: "Was I using this because the idea of Black culture seems cool?” she tells Vulture. “And I was just like, ‘Well, that’s just part of it!’ It’s not intellectually understanding that the words you use are really powerful. I think that’s a lot of what this reckoning is for all of us who are not Black.” She has since spent some time wrestling with her own racial identity. Shawkat, whose father is Iraqi and mother is white, is figuring out “what it means to be mixed race and what kinds of circles of privilege I’ve had access to because of that,” she says. “I think I’ve learned more about it in these last two weeks than I have in my whole life.”
• Search Party is the rare comedy that feels rooted in the real world while also seeming sort of timeless