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[–] fireweed@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

I would generally agree that their best episodes are well behind them, but they still produce some amazing moments. I recently rewatched the Pandemic Special, and it's hands-down the best mainstream media I've seen in terms of encapsulating what living through the pandemic as a general member of the public actually felt like.

Watching this most recent season I got the impression that they were trying (and not just dialing it in), but were fighting the same problem that all satirists are right now: that reality has surpassed satire in its absurdity (although their plotlines about POTUS being equivalent to Saddam Hussein and Jesus himself falling into the manosphere certainly implied this predicament). If nothing else, it's good to see a show that for a long time would have aligned itself with "free speech absolutists" fighting against them instead, not because they've abandoned free speech, but rather because of all the other baggage that side now carries.