Oscar and Emmy Award nominee Jeff Goldblum (
Jurassic Park franchise,
The World According to Jeff Goldblum) is joining the cast of the beloved comedy series
Search Party for its fifth season. Goldblum will star in the recurring role of “Tunnel Quinn,” a charismatic tech billionaire who enters a very public business partnership with Dory (Alia Shawkat) on the other side of her near-death experience.
Dory folds her old friends Portia (Meredith Hagner), Elliott (John Early), and Drew (John Reynolds) into the venture as they embark on an altruistic but terrifying journey.
“
Search Party is such a brilliant show. What a thrill and a privilege it is to get to be a little part of it! I respect and adore everyone involved with this magical entertainment,” said Goldblum.
Search Party Season 4 Goes Back to Its Missing Person Roots
The new season delivers the show s original premise with a twist: this time everything s real.
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Welcome to
Previously On, a column that fills you in on our favorite returning TV shows. This week, Liz Baessler reviews Season 4 of the HBO Max series Search Party.
In 2016,
Search Party appeared quietly on the scene. An
Alia Shawkat-led comedy/thriller with an impeccable grip on cringe and a loving but brutal understanding of millennial culture, it checked off so many boxes viewers didn’t even know they had. Now it’s back on HBO Max with a fourth season that’s very different, but still brilliant.
Tuesday, Jan. 12; 11 a.m. PST
The World Is Full Of Terrible People: Shirley Jackson And Female Violence
The London branch of the Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies begins its 2021 spring lecture series with a focus on writer Shirley Jackson. The online session, presented by Bernice M. Murphy of Trinity College in Dublin, examines Jackson s life and work, including
The Haunting of Hill House (1959) and
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962).
CAAM presents an online conversation with Carl L. Hart, author of Drug Use For Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear. (Courtesy of CAAM)
Tuesday, Jan. 12; 5 - 6:30 p.m. PST
The series has been the little show that could when it transferred from TBS to HBO Max last summer after a lengthy hiatus. The latest season comes only six months after the end of its third season and continues to generate critical acclaim and a cult following spurred on by word of mouth. Paralleling its transition from cable to streaming,
Search Party has excelled at reinventing itself season after season while maintaining a razor-sharp satirical eye on the experiences and blights of millennial culture. The plotting has been remarkably tight as every season picks up where the previous one left off, creating a thrilling intensity that invites binge-watching so integral to the streaming experience.