![]() The technology may change, and some individual circumstances may change, but the world has gotten stuck in a pattern that just won’t unlodge. People were supposed to get kinder, but Post Covid shows a world that is very much the same. ![]() “We’re at where a lot of people are at, which is the future kind of sucks,” Post Covid writer and director Trey Parker told The Hollywood Reporter back in October. Whenever anyone announces some societal change, like insects replacing meat on menus, they make sure to announce that it’s because they are in the future, to which Stan and Kyle remark, “I know.” In the future, lead singers wear diapers on their heads Image: Paramount Plus ![]() Post Covid takes places in a world where kids stare mindlessly into VR headsets, cryptocurrency is mandatory, and doorbells sing about the future. Post Covid, now streaming on Paramount Plus, reminds the viewer at every opportunity that the movie (which, at 59 minutes, is hard to distinguish from a 47-minute special episode) is set in the future. This is the last punch of a joke that runs throughout the entire hour-long TV movie, which is set in the year 2061. People were supposed to get kinder in the future,” Randy Marsh says near the end of the new special South Park: Post Covid. ![]() “Let Them Eat Goo” is a decent episode, not exactly great satire, but crudely funny, the family marijuana business still able to put an amusing spin on a familiar situation.“It wasn’t supposed to be like this. In the absence of beef, nothing beats a good mushroom burger, but plant-based beef does mimic an authentic fast food experience, providing a thick dose of salty grease, followed by a stomach ache. The leaked video, mirroring the disturbing footage that emerges from slaughterhouses, puts an end to Randy’s burger business, and reminds the audience that while vegan food can still be junk food, it is still slaughter-free. Of course, there’s a massive difference between beef burgers and plant-based, highlighted by the scene in which Randy and Towelie massacre a herd of now-worthless cattle, high out of their minds. It’s still highly processed and addictive, just wrapped up in new packaging. The “meat” of this episode comes from the surreal sight of weed-burger addicts, enjoying the intoxicating bliss that accompanies ‘Tegrity burgers the sight of a teacher obsessively consuming her THC-laced burger is slightly unsettling, and hilarious.Īs Cartman’s schoolmates wait in terror for him to realize that the cafeteria has switched to artery-clogging meat substitutes, it turns out that meat was never the issue for Cartman the freedom to eat junk food was his only real concern. The co-opting of well-meaning movements by cold corporations has been a recurring subject of season 23, but this episode doesn’t have a great deal to say, other than “vegan burgers can be bad for you too.” Meat substitutes are shockingly high in saturated fats and salt, sure, but what do you expect from fast food chains? The concerns highlighted in “ Band In China” are still being played out in real-time, most recently with the NBA and Blizzard scandal, and it’ll be interesting to see if Randy or the boys will return to China before the season is over, as a kind of victory lap.Ī homage to Daniel Plainview from There Will Be Blood provides a greed-ridden businessman to rival Randy, a “Goo Man” who can provide processed crap to meet the demands of hungry customers who have lost their appetite for mass-produced meat. It’s an amusing, somewhat subtle jab at James, without detracting from the focus of the episode. "Yes, we do have freedom of speech, but at times there are ramifications for the negative that can happen when you are not thinking about others and only thinking about yourself!"
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