Search Party: a hilarious Hitchcockian mystery about clueless, aimless millennials

What starts as a hunt for a missing old friend becomes a genre-busting funhouse mirror of generational narcissism with hilarious leads

If a show can be considers a cult classic while it’s still airing, it’s a title Search Party deserves. At the least, it deserves more attention. While the critics love it, the series is still, uh, searching for a wider audience.

The elevator pitch? Essentially “Gone Girls”: AKA Gone Girl meets Girls. Search Party focuses on listless Brooklynite Dory (Arrested Development’s Alia Shawkat), who becomes increasingly obsessed with finding her missing college acquaintance Chantal. Dory leads herself and her pretty, trendy friends down a paranoid, murderous path to find her.

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