Review: South Park “The Damned”

Who would be the queen, does anyone know?

Spoilers Below

The new South Park episode “The Damned” was another subtle great one. This season has been full of South Park’s usual scathing satire– and I feel like they’re really nailing it.

I always start a new South Park episode thinking I’ll be underwhelmed, for some reason, but I’m always pleasantly surprised. I have no idea how Matt and Trey stay so relevant and funny, but however they do it, I applaud them.

“The Damned” involves Cartman quitting Twitter, and a very touching new friendship. Meanwhile, the online troll continues to roam free online, causing mayhem, making fun of cancer survivors, and being generally nasty…until someone claims to know his secret.

In the best cliffhanger of the season yet, we see the troll freaking out, deleting everything, becoming suspicious of his family– and we won’t find out who knows his secret until next week! This is how TV shows used to be. ‘Member old TV shows?

The most funny part of the episode, however, that drew the most laughs from me because of its poignant satirical skewing, was the political antics of Garrison and Hillary. Garrison (douche) is straight-up telling people he hates them, and not to vote for him, because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Hillary (turd sandwich) is coached by her team to say everything Garrison says is a lie. Just general hilarity. The things we wish Trump would say. But of course, Garrison continues gaining supporters. Just like Trump.

All of “The Damned” is really summed up when Randy starts honestly wondering what’s going on with the world. Is it the Member Berries? Nobody knows. I do sometimes wish they’d get away from the straight up satire and politics. But they do it SO WELL.

We’ll find out a little more next week, and I can’t wait— I’m hooked this season. There’s some really dark undertones the South Park team is getting at. And we need that in these weird, weird times.