Lost Generation: Search Party and Millennial Angst
Translating the anxieties of classic film noir has proved surprisingly difficult. True Detective couldn’t get over the hurdles of tragic, troubled masculinity to explore identity beyond those parameters, and Sin City and its sequel were more obsessed with reductive, hyperreal versions of its conventions and tropes. But Search Party, the new TBS sitcom created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter, is in the vein of Cold Weather (as well as last year’s Wild Cana
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