Wake up laughing
“Brooklyn, New York, is under siege,” says a TV news anchor in one of the final episodes of HBO’s fifth and final season of Search Party, “by an unidentified contagious personality disorder.” This joke just shouldn’t land. Brooklyn and its obliviously self-parodic gentrifiers, call them hipsters, millennials, zoomers, creatives, the wretched refuse of Oberlin and Bard, are the lowest-hanging fruit in the comedy orchard. Not to mention that the “contagious personality disorder” in question is an apocalyptic zombie outbreak brought on by mass poisoning. The zom-com peaked over a ...