“Brooklyn, New York, is under siege,” says a TV news anchor in one of the final episodes of HBO’s fifth and final season of Search Party, “by an unidentified contagious personality disorder.” This joke just shouldn’t land. Brooklyn and its obliviously self-parodic gentrifiers, call them hipsters, millennials, zoomers, creatives, the wretched refuse of Oberlin and Bard, are the lowest-hanging fruit in the comedy orchard. Not to mention that the “contagious personality disorder” in question is an apocalyptic zombie outbreak brought on by mass poisoning. The zom-com peaked over a decade ago with movies such as Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland, back when millennials were still young, and it seems doomed to shuffle around forever like a wasted party guest who won’t leave. Are we really still doing this?
Executive producers Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers discuss the final season of "Search Party" on HBO Max. "Search Party" stars Alia Shawkat, Meredith Hagner, John Early, and John Reynolds. The entire series is now available on HBO Max.