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Positive Reviews
37
Negative reviews
17
Average Rating
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4.5
Search Partys second season is in every way more of a ride than the first. A story of this gravity could easily fall apart under its own weight, which ..
Den Of Geek
4.5
Search Party remains a captivating case study in genre experimentation and cultural commentary.
Indie Wire
4.5
Search Party reaches an unexpected climax in the finale, which manages to be both terrifying and hilarious, while offering the shows most scathing sat ..
4.5
The show is at its best when it elevates mundane problems and mistakes into hugely dramatic moments, making the most of its cultural satire that mirro ..
Collider
1.5
The irony and millennial jabs are still here and there, but the tone is more serious. Its what the series needed, however, as jokes and gimmicks were ..
Paste Magazine
4.5
You almost hope that Dory, Drew, Elliott and Portia fail, because not only do the hijinks prove endlessly hilarious, but the resultant pathos feels un ..
The Globe And Mail
4.5
Best of all, the series grows more somber and dramatic as it races along, with Dory discovering not just exciting clues but hard truths about herself ..
Village Voice
4.5
For as much as Search Party adores its characters, it rightfully puts them through hell for all the grey area wobbling and moral high ground their fin ..
Tv Guide
4.5
Search Party contains exactly the right balance of self awareness and empathy for its characters. Every time they dig a hole, literally and figurative ..
Decider
4.5
Wonderfully droll, the show fits the anti aspirational trajectory that TV comedy from Seinfeld to Broad City has made so successful: no one hugs and n ..
The Guardian
4.5
As you watch these horrible, but weirdly relatable people get ripped from the cocoons of their own smug self satisfaction to suffer through the hells ..
Npr
4.5
Blending screwball fizz and sticky melancholy, it basically invents a new genre: the noir sitcom. It is also, at ten episodes, exactly the right lengt ..
New Yorker
1.5
With its awkward humor, narcissistic characters and hipster realist aesthetic, the show felt like a more self aware successor to Lena Dunhams Girls.
Time
4.5
Season 4 is essentially one big, unethical therapy session for Dory, and we see the effects of it plainly in the way Shawkat uses her physicality and ..
Uproxx
1.5
Itll be interesting to see how much of a generational conflict actually factors into the show.
Tv Av Club
4.5
The first half of the 10 part season is much more compelling than the second, which borrows a few too many twists from daytime soaps. But the initial ..
Hollywood Reporter
1.5
Its a quick, cutting, and mostly entertaining season that goes down quick, even if its not as funny, largely owed to the sidelining of Meredith Hagner ..
Pajiba
4.5
Even though its a comedy and a frequently savage satire of millennial targeted entitlement, its also an effective thriller, with perfect cliffhangers, ..
Vox
1.5
Its as inconsistent as the show has ever been in terms of plotting and theme, but theres also something riveting about its insane structure and ludicr ..
The Play List
1.5
This is a series requiring a binge watch ... a show ultimately about getting to that final destination. Though not necessarily for answers to the myst ..
Film School Rejects
1.5
Search Party is never not funny, but it goes to some very dark places as it probes the angst and aimlessness of its young protagonists. The humour is ..
The Age
4.5
Its a quirky millennial satire that draws on the best aspects of Girls the Brooklyn setting, painfully true to life characters, and bitingly clever hu ..
Nz Herald
1.5
Its a remarkably snappy running time for a mystery series, especially in comparison to bloated 10 ep shows that needlessly drag for an hour apiece. It ..
Flicks
4.5
The twists and turns, quality subplots, and rather dramatic cliffhanger ending made this season leaps and bounds better than the last.
The Stranger
4.5
A unique comedy that manages a multitude of genres without getting lost along the way and making a cynical, fun, smart portrait of society and millenn ..
1.5
If youre like me, youll be eight episodes in, enjoying all the subtlety, when youre thrown into a mild panic by realizing theres only two episodes lef ..
Vanity Fair
4.5
Somehow, despite the bizarre last minute transformation, the show still ends on a resounding high note.
Film
4.5
Search Party has already presented a more evolved, more vicious, and even more suspenseful version of itself, one where Dorys missteps have real conse ..
The Ringer
4.5
The final twist is a brilliant comment on our seemingly bottomless urge for a new direction, a curve ball that will startle us out of our hollow compl ..
Flavor Wire
4.5
Search Party is blessed with sharp writing and a cast that hits all the right comical notes.
Mercury News
4.5
Search Party gets meaner than ever while maintaining the relentless pacing of both thrills and comedy.
The Verge
4.5
Search Party is a delicious skewering of hipster millennial life and privilege, which twists that will leave you reeling.
Metro
1.5
When a show is branded a cult favorite, the misconception is that its only for a niche audience. I reject that when it comes to Search Party...
The Daily Beast
4.5
Search Party has always been a bold show with gimlet eye focused on its characters, but season four is the most unrelentingly dark and bold concept ye ..
Lainey Gossip
4.5
Its not quite nihilism, but it does smartly put the whole notion of self improvement hell, of escape from the self on blast.
New Republic
4.5
Search Party is a bizarre mix of concepts hipster millennial comedy meets stylish, spiralling mystery that ends up being something all of its own.
New States Man
4.5
With its excellent writing, fantastic acting, and the need to keep on binging, you need to put this show on your must watch list.
Cultured Vultures
4.5
Search Party manages to keep us hooked on the courtroom drama without making light of it. The jokes are abundant and effective, and the timing could n ..
Mash Able
1.5
The fifth and final season of Search Party is, frankly, bananas. It takes a ridiculous, ballsy, massive swerve, keeping the same familiar characters b ..
Thril List
4.5
A Gen Y mystery series that owes more influence to Nancy Drew books than Girls or Broad City, Search Party is immensely likeable and highly watchable.
News
1.5
While most shows this far in are struggling to figure out something new to do, Search Party continues to take wild narrative swings.
The Film Experience
4.5
As the show goes on, it evolves into something much smarter: a biting drama of millennials ennui and an exploration of self, with satirical jokes of h ..
The Spool
4.5
Alia Shawkat handles drama beautifully and with real Hitchcockian style (shes an absolute vision in the finale), but many of her worst, most heart wre ..
The Week
4.5
There are many small pleasures in Search Party that, if youre going to watch the show, deserve to be savored.
Esquire
1.5
In its fourth season, Search Party cements its status as cutting, if imperfect, send up of millennial self actualization.
The Nation
4.5
Search Party has contorted itself into a show so dark and reaching for twists, its almost unrecognizable.
The Muse Jezebel
4.5
Though the season becomes uneven and frustrating in the middle, it pulls itself together in the final two episodes to be one of the best yet.
Mama's Geeky
1.5
Its a bizarre, totally bonkers season that keeps on upping the ante of ridiculousness.
Exclaim!
1.5
Search Party isnt a patient series; similar to how the mystery sucks in Dorys friends, it also sucks in the audience, and even if you find the charact ..
Vice
1.5
If I were to have a single complaint about Season 4 its that that deft hand is missing. Full Review | Feb 3, 2021
Gayly Dreadful
4.5
What immediately grabbed me was the way the opening is structured like a horror story. Full Review | Feb 3, 2021
Queer.Horror.Movies.
4.5
Shawkats work here is more exciting than ever, a tightrope walk between being the hero and villain of her own story. Shes as much a femme fatale as sh ..
Miami New Times
4.5
After three seasons proving itself uniquely adept at bridging compelling mystery with hilarious satire about the self absorption of millennials, Searc ..
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1.5
At its best, the kidnapping is a provocative move. But eventually, the effect is unbearable.
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