‘Search Party’ Season 4: How Dory’s Scary Barbie Dolls Were Made
Doll designer Cyrus Bronock says the hardest character to sculpt was ElliotSamson Amore | January 21, 2021 @ 6:43 PM
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Three more episodes of “Search Party” dropped Thursday and as the story unfolds, Dory (Alia Shawkat) gets an odd gift three Barbie-sized doll replicas of her friends.
The dolls were made by artist Cyrus Bronock, who was enlisted by HBO to design miniature likenesses of the “Search Party” trio and has made many others, including several of Barbara Streisand and a figurine of Sarah Michelle Gellar in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”
The creepy likenesses of Drew Gardner (John Reynolds), Portia Davenport (Meredith Hangar) and Elliot (John Early) are supposed to be created by Dory’s captor Chip (Cole Escola), a deranged twink who is keeping her locked in the basement of his aunt’s house. There’s also a model of Dory, as well as the dead Keith (Ron Livingston) and Apr
Search Party’s delightfully demented fourth season features a star turn by an unusual addition to the cast: a half-dozen eerily life-like Barbie dolls. Bearing a haunting resemblance to the show’s four (anti)heroes and their two murder victims these dolls also play a terrifying role in this season’s plot.
After being found innocent of a murder she absolutely did commit, Dory (Alia Shawkat) has been kidnapped by Chip (Cole Escola), an obsessed fan who wants to replace her rag-tag group of friends. Using the dolls as a kind of immersive “therapy,” Chip forces Dory to relive the killings of Seasons 1 and 2, while altering her memories to exonerate her of any responsibility