Latest news about South Park Season 27 should be a relief, but I'm still sad to see the show's release schedule change again. South Park It's changed a lot since it was an R-rated cartoon that appealed to legions of kids in the late 90s. when i grow up South Park mainly known for his uncanny ability to annoy teachers and parents. As I got older and finally got around to watching the series myself, the show morphed from scatological, surreal cartoon to thoughtful social satire. South Park Season 4 marked this major change.
as South Park stopped focusing on sheer absurdity and shock value and instead focused on current events, the tone of the series changed. Some of them South Park's best episodes still focused on children and their wild misadventures, but as the series unfolded, it became more interested in current affairs. In season 19, the show changed its premise again with a season-long serialized storyline. After the 23rd season South Park changed things up again by releasing feature-length specials and shorter seasons instead of the usual 10-episode seasons. Now it is the upcoming year 2025 South Park Season 27 promises another big change.
South Park Season 27 won't arrive until 2025
The creators of South Park admitted that they needed more time
According to creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park Season 27 won't air until 2025 at the earliest. Seasons 17-23 of the series consisted of 10 episodes each, but the 24th season in 2021 consisted of two feature-length specials. This was due to the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the show's regular release schedule, however South Park it never returned to its pre-pandemic schedule in the following years. Two more specials followed in 2021, while the 25th season in 2022 was the show's shortest season ever. South Park Seasons 25 and 26 featured six episodes each, followed by two specials.
With seasons 25 and 26 airing between February and March 2022 and 2023 respectively, viewers were understandably expecting season 27 to arrive in February 2024. However, February came and went and there was no sign of the show returning. South Park: The End of Obesity It aired in late May 2024, marking the first time the show's creators had aired a feature-length special before the season premiere. After this release, there was no news until an interview in September 2024 Vanity Fair announced that the release of season 27 was delayed until 2025 in order to prevent Parker and Stone from being picked up in 2024.
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I'm not surprised by that South Park Season 27 is delayedalthough this is the first time in the series' almost three decades on the air that it has not released any new episodes for a year. As co-creator Matt Stone points out in an interview, even South Parkcreators don't know”What else can we say about Trump?.” I can see where the show's creators are coming from, as the bombastic politician has been the subject of countless satirical takes in print, film and the small screen over the past decade. However, I was still disappointed with the decision.
When Trump first announced his candidacy in 2015,
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's outspoken supporting character, Mr. Garrison, became the show's stand-in for the politician.
Admittedly, South ParkThanks to a decision the series made nine years ago, it's extremely difficult to write a version of Donald Trump. When Trump first announced his candidacy in 2015, South Park's outspoken supporting character, Mr. Garrison, became the show's stand-in for the politician. At the time, it seemed unlikely that Trump would win the election South Park replacing it with Garrison was no problem. But when Trump won the election South Park remained in a tight place. Garrison remained the show's equivalent of Trump, but the character never worked because he was neither an accurate Trump parody nor Garrison's old self.
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South Park Season 27 arriving in 2025 means the series will bypass the issue of bringing Garrison's Trump back, as the event will end by 2025. Even if Trump wins, South Park Season 27 may ignore the president, just as the show ignored Joe Biden between 2020 and 2024. South Park works of fiction and I am convinced that giving up the 2024 elections is the right choice South Park according to the latest election coverage. South Park It ignored the 2020 presidential election, and the show's 2016 election episode disrupted an entire season's worth of storylines.
Rewriting
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The final episodes of season 20 were obvious even to a casual viewer like me.
South Park The serialized storyline of the 20th season focuses on internet trolls, the dangers of nostalgia, and the election campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Like many others, South Park's creators admitted they assumed Clinton would win the election and wrote the storyline for season 20 accordingly. Instead, Trump won in a historic upset and South Park Season 20 is derailed. Rewriting South Park The final episodes of season 20 were obvious, even to a casual viewer like me, and I remember wondering why the show built its entire story around an event with an unknown outcome.
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while South Park's short seasons aren't perfect, but I'm still always happy to see the series return to screens every year. So while I understand why a 27th season won't arrive until 2025, it's hard not to feel like this choice was an unfortunate failure. South Park The delays to season 27 make sense, and the show's creators are right to point out that a season airing in late 2024 will inevitably focus on the election. But in theory this is the function South Park adults perform in an animated landscape. Unlike its competitors, South Park is uniquely timely.
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According to the creators of the show, the 27th season will premiere in 2025.
Each episode of the topical satire is famously written, produced and animated five days before airing. South Park's legendary fast turnaround time makes the show stand outso if the creators want to avoid controversial, difficult news now, I can't see what the point of the show is. The 2024 election is hard to make entertaining, but this hard-hitting satirical story hits home with the audience. South Park for. So it's hard not to feel South Park The delayed arrival of season 27 is a case of the long-running series abandoning its purpose.
Source: Vanity Fair