‘It stopped being a party a long time ago,” is the new tagline for season four of HBO Max‘s “Search Party” and ain’t that the truth. Originally on TBS, “Search Party” was seemingly a fun, amusing, hip, funny show about millennials and millennial angst. A young, 20-something (Alia Shawkat), needs a purpose in her life and when a friend from high school goes missing—one that she doesn’t particularly know very well—she decides to devote her life to finding her. But then, by the end of the first season, and continuing through season two, “Search Party” got dark, and twisted: something more of a murder mystery with Hitchock-ian ideas of guilt and trauma. And all that said, yes, “Search Party” still manages to find lots of hilarity in its darkness, but the party is definitely over.

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