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The Pandemic Special and What South Park Means in 2020
My friends and I have been asking ourselves different versions of the same question since March of this year: “How will [INSERT SHOW TITLE HERE] adapt to Covid-19 next season?” There have, of course, been quite a few bigger fish to fry in terms of anxiety this year than wondering if It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia can stick the landing in this new television landscape; but as a media-obsessed person living in lockdown, it was a relieving form of idle speculation. Scripted television shows we had loved for years were going to have to figure out new ways of being, new topics to consider, new styles of presentation, much like…
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Archer’s back. And he’s funnier than he’s been in at least five years. It’s honestly a relief to see. After three coma seasons, a mixed PI season that also involved an abrupt (and quickly forgotten) relocation to Los Angeles, and an oddly bitter return to the spy formula in Season 6; Archer in Season 11 is finally awake and (way more important) finally having fun again. Archer, as a television show, occupies an interesting middle ground in adult animation. It came in 2009, after the initial wave in the 90s and early 2000s that created the titans of the genre like The Simpsons, Family Guy, South Park, Futurama, and King…
