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Cast & Key People William Shatner Admiral Kirk Leonard Nimoy Spock DeForest Kelley Dr. McCoy Catherine Hicks Dr. Gillian Taylor Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) is a sci-fi and comedy film from…
Cast & Key People William Shatner Admiral Kirk Leonard Nimoy Spock DeForest Kelley Dr. McCoy Christopher Lloyd Commander Kruge Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) is a sci-fi and adventure film from…
Cast & Key People William Shatner Admiral Kirk Leonard Nimoy Spock DeForest Kelley Dr. McCoy Ricardo Montalban Khan Noonien Singh Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) is a sci-fi and action film…
Cast & Key People William Shatner Admiral Kirk Leonard Nimoy Spock DeForest Kelley Dr. McCoy Persis Khambatta Ilia Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) is a sci-fi film from Movies. It runs about 132…
Cast & Key People Derek Waters Derek Waters Watch the Trailer ▶ Our Review Drunk History (2013) is a comedy and history series from Comedy Central. It has built a run of 70 episodes at roughly 30 minutes each. It…
Special number seven takes on the weight loss drug era with the show's usual lack of mercy. When Cartman is denied the new miracle medication because he is not diabetic enough, he and Butters start sourcing it from Canada, and the plot builds to a full Cartman empowerment arc that satirizes body positivity discourse and pharmaceutical gatekeeping at the same time. A Lizzo subplot, where she is rebranded as the face of the drug to make it relatable, drew the loudest headlines and remains the special's boldest swing.
The sixth special is the influencer economy takedown fans had been waiting for. A new energy drink called Cred takes the school by storm, and the boys' quest to score it becomes a genuinely cutting look at how brands manufacture belonging and sell it to kids who cannot afford it. Meanwhile Randy launches an OnlyFans career with tragic optimism, and the special's most savage joke is that the adults' exploitation economy and the kids' hype economy are the same machine wearing different outfits.
The fifth special is the multiverse parody everyone saw coming and nobody expected to be this pointed. Cartman dreams of a universe where everyone is diverse and it drives him insane, while the real plot follows a displaced multiverse version of him landing in our world and a desperate Disney executive, an unflattering Bob Iger caricature, trying to fix a company whose adult fans have turned on it. The special's take on pandering, box office panic, and the grown man Star Wars discourse is bracingly mean to everyone at once.
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 third Paramount+ special trades pandemic gloom for drought farce: a ManBearPig caused water shortage has Denver rationing, and Steve Black discovers he can sell his stream to the city reservoir, which quickly turns into a subscription streaming service, boats of water sent downstream to paying customers, while water park owner Pi Pi lurks with his own recycling scheme. Cartman's battle with his mother over breast implants as an investment strategy is the special's engine, and Talnua Cussler's golf course compound looming over the abandoned hot dog stand gives the kids a genuinely new antagonist setup.