South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid
The direct sequel three weeks later sends the adult boys back in time to stop the pandemic before it starts, and the results split into two tones that mostly fuse. The future half is a bleak joke about how little anyone learned, while the past half gets to reunite the kids and ask the show's oldest question in a new way: what if Cartman had grown up kind? The answer is the most sincere thing South Park has aired in years, and it plays the emotional card with real control.
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Our Review
The direct sequel three weeks later sends the adult boys back in time to stop the pandemic before it starts, and the results split into two tones that mostly fuse. The future half is a bleak joke about how little anyone learned, while the past half gets to reunite the kids and ask the show’s oldest question in a new way: what if Cartman had grown up kind? The answer is the most sincere thing South Park has aired in years, and it plays the emotional card with real control.
The time travel plot is surprisingly tidy for a franchise that usually writes its way out of corners in a mock hurry, and a running gag about who deserves credit for saving the world lands better than it should. Randy’s lockdown science hero subplot is the weakest thread, reprising jokes the series had already drained, and the special leans on Toilettec lore only hardcore viewers will track.
As a closing chapter to the Post COVID diptych it satisfies: the ending actually ends something, a rarity for this show. Slightly less fresh than part one but warmer, and the final scene recontextualizes two decades of Cartman cruelty in a way fans still argue about. Worth the hour for anyone who grew up with these characters.
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