‘South Park’ Season Premiere ‘Dead Kids’ Is a Big Middle Finger at Apathy Over School Shootings
In its Season 22 premiere, “South Park” ditched ironic detachment for a bitter look at the depressing regularity of school shootings — and the country’s refusal to do anything about it.
And yes, despite the usual constant gags and the b-plot’s Marvel riff (in which Cartman becomes what amounts to a racist Jessica Jones), the episode managed to be a genuinely sober condemnation of the apparent national apathy about public violence.
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