South Park The Streaming Wars Part 2

Our Review

Part 2 pays off the cliffhanger with the reveal everyone expected handled in the least expected way, and the back half turns into a full parody of prestige crime dramas, complete with a Detective Harris investigation that eats half the runtime. Pi Pi, the urine obsessed water park owner, becomes the special’s unlikely breakout villain with a crypto and NFT endorsed pitch to run Colorado’s water supply, and a running joke about everyone in town having a podcast gets funnier each time it is deployed.

The strongest material is the adults’ spiral: Randy going full nuclear Karen and waking up tranquilized, a remorseful Randy abandoning weed farming to propose a desalination plant as a genuine act of geology heroism, and a courtroom subplot where Cartman sues his own mother that plays the show’s meanest character note perfectly. The kids’ storyline resolves with ManBearPig family lore, PigBearGirl and Chuck Chuck, which is either inspired or nonsense depending on your tolerance for the show’s refusal to commit.

As a conclusion it satisfies more than part one, with a tighter build and a real climax, even if the whole Streaming Wars saga ranks below the Post COVID pair in ambition. Fans of Randy’s descent into agricultural lunacy will find plenty to love. Both parts together make one pretty good movie length South Park story.