South Park Season 28 Premiere: "Twisted Christian" Review

Warning: This nonfiction contains full spoilers for South Park Season 28, Episode 1!

After different several-week hiatus, South Park is backmost with "Twisted Christian," an occurrence that takes quadrate purpose astatine billionaire and self-professed Antichrist adept Peter Thiel, PC Principal's progressively popular, hypermasculine marque of alleged Christianity, and the existent "6 7" craze. As usual, the amusement is casting a wide nett successful presumption of its satirical content, but it manages to weave everything unneurotic into a beauteous cohesive whole.

I mightiness arsenic good commencement with the weirdness surrounding the numbering of this episode. For immoderate reason, Comedy Central and/or South Park Studios opted to interruption this caller play successful half. Rather than being the Season 27, Episode 6 we were each expecting, this is technically the Season 28 premiere. It's each semantics, really, but it does look a spot unusual to marque that favoritism erstwhile thing astir this occurrence feels similar a premiere. It's not the commencement of thing new, but simply the continuation of the show's ongoing Donald Trump/Antichrist saga.

But statement it nevertheless you want. The important happening is that the bid continues to physique a amazingly effectual and focused storyline contempt the galore subplots and perpetually shifting focus. This is truly the inverse of 2016's storyline, wherever the amusement tried to weave a coherent communicative and got wholly derailed by Trump's unexpected electoral victory.

As I've discussed before, those longer breaks successful betwixt episodes truly look to beryllium making each the difference. Yes, it's not perfect for the amusement to beryllium taking a week disconnected successful betwixt episodes, overmuch little the 2 weeks that person been happening lately, but it's yet for the best. It helps the bid onslaught a amended equilibrium betwixt staying topical and gathering an ongoing communicative that makes consciousness and decently builds from 1 section to the next.

"Twisted Christian" surely succeeds there. The absorption connected PC Principal and his patently ridiculous marque of modern American Christianity feels similar a logical hold of what's been brewing since the play premiere. Obviously, Jesus has been a recurring quality since the earliest days of the series, but seldom has his beingness felt this important and this downright hilarious. It lone feels close for the amusement to telephone retired the blatant hypocrisy of PC Principal and those similar him, culminating successful the obligatory country wherever PC and Jesus propulsion down successful a Cheesecake Factory bathroom.

From there, it's not excessively overmuch of a agelong to gully successful Thiel arsenic a caller subordinate successful this progressively analyzable web. Thiel's obsession with the Antichrist is well-documented astatine this point, and helium fits close successful with this dilatory unfolding saga wherever Satan is preparing to springiness commencement to Trump's child. He adjacent gets a catchy small taxable opus (it's nary "James Cameron," but what is?). Again, the bid is doing an awesome occupation of gathering up a larger struggle contempt pivoting each and each week, and present we spot the caller revelation astir JD Vance's existent motives transportation guardant successful a large way.

Having already tackled Labubu's past month, present the bid turns its attraction to the different craze sweeping the nation's youth. As idiosyncratic who has to endure a nonstop "6 7" barrage from his ain children daily, it's surely amusing seeing that nonsensical fad marque its mode into South Park. And overmuch similar Labubus, it's turns retired the full happening is portion of a deeper, darker, much Satanic unit poisoning the minds of today's youth.

I'm inactive trying to determine if Cartman works arsenic the epicenter of the "6 7" numerology subplot, however. On 1 hand, it's bully conscionable seeing the quality backmost successful the spotlight aft taking specified a backseat successful caller episodes. Even by the show's modern standards, Season 27/28 has truly been downplaying the kids successful favour of the big cast. It's astir clip 1 of the main 4 returned to the forefront of each of this chaos.

On the other, this is the 1 country wherever the bid doesn't rather physique connected what's travel before. The premiere truly emphasized Cartman's disillusionment astir the existent governmental climate. If everyone feels escaped to behave similar an Eric Cartman now, past what is his purpose? A compelling question worthy exploring, to beryllium sure. This feels similar a abrupt pivot for the character, and I'm not convinced this relation couldn't conscionable arsenic easy person been filled by Stan oregon Kyle (neither of whom person been up to overmuch lately). Let's conscionable anticipation the South Park unit find a mode of returning to Cartman's existential situation earlier this caller play ends.

Finally, it's worthy pointing retired that this occurrence truly doubles and triples down connected the scathing Trump satire, amid everything other going on. Regardless of your governmental leanings oregon your tendency to really spot Trump dropping his pants and spreading his legs successful an termination clinic, you person to respect the show's willingness to propulsion the envelope that far. And you can't not laughter astatine that Towelie cameo. As usual, it should beryllium absorbing to spot however the Trump Administration reacts to this latest, highly unflattering portrayal.