“Search Party” began with a missing girl and became a show about another girl who has gone missing in her own way. But its transformation along the way— from self-absorbed millennial comedy, to paranoid murder mystery, to something much darker and the way it straddles, humor, hipster youth irony, and existentialist moral dread—has been astonishing.
Launched on TBS in 2016, “Search Party” was initially the story of the wonderfully named Chantal Witherbottom (Clare McNulty), who disappeared from her relatively posh NYC life.
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