What South Park Season 25 Got Right (And Where It Went Wrong)
There were only six episodes in South Park season 25 but the long-running animated comedy series still managed to encapsulate everything that does (and doesn’t) work about the show in those brief outings. The future is bright for South Park in 2022. In August 2021, the show’s creators signed a $900 million deal with Paramount Plus guaranteeing at least six more seasons of the series and 14 South Park movies.
Whether the upcoming South Park movies will return to what made 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut a success remains to be seen, butSouth Park season 25 bodes well for the spinoff. The season received largely positive reviews despite its truncated six-episode run, as these episodes still gave the series enough time to revisit some of its most frustrating missteps—but not everything worked. Ultimately, South Park season 25 managed to touch on everything the show gets right and all the areas where South Park needs to improve going forward.
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Even in its brief runtime, South Park season 25 hit a few snags as the show relied on outdated characters and tired storylines. However, episodes like South Park’s Russia/Ukraine satire proved that the series could still nail current events as they happened, while «Help, My Teenager Hates Me!» (season 25, episode 5) showed that South Park was also still capable of pulling off more timeless, character-centric stories too. Meanwhile, South Park season 25 took the right approach to serialization by revisiting gags that worked and ignoring plots that didn’t need to be brought back, but the show let itself down when it got bogged down with characters who are overdue a retirement.
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