The key piece of Tolstoy-penned evidence from a year ago is still guiding the series: "The pleasure lies not in discovering the truth, but in searching for it." And this search is quite a pleasure.
Search Party owes its distinctive tone to its blend of murder-mystery noir - Showalter's contribution - and Bliss and Rogers's expansive universe of neurotic strivers.
From the Saul Bass-inspired promotional artwork to the ominous soundtrack, Search Party sneaks various murder-mystery gimmicks into a single-camera dark comedy that's bursting with paranoia and unease.
As you watch these horrible, but weirdly relatable people get ripped from the cocoons of their own smug self-satisfaction to suffer through the hells created by that self-satisfaction, everything about it just feels indelibly right, and just, and true.
