Here’s why you need to stop doom-scrolling and watch these movies back-to-back. Forget the fourth-grade shenanigans. Post COVID opens in 2051. Kenny is dead (again, but for real this time). Stan is a disillusioned alcoholic living in a barn. Kyle is a "business Kyle" who has abandoned his morals to work for a soulless tech company. But the real gut punch? Cartman... is a gentle, loving, Hasidic Jewish rabbi living in New Jersey with a wife and kids.
You want to see Cartman cry, you enjoy time-travel paradoxes, or you need to laugh so you don't cry about the last four years of your life. South Park- Post Covid- Covid Returns
Yes, you read that right. Eric Cartman found peace. And the fact that this peaceful existence feels wrong drives the entire plot. Here’s why you need to stop doom-scrolling and
Final Verdict: Post COVID and The Return of COVID stand as the definitive pop culture artifact of the pandemic era. It’s ugly, it’s messy, and it ends with a weed farmer screwing everything up. In other words, it’s perfect. Kenny is dead (again, but for real this time)
The two-part special event, South Park: Post COVID and South Park: The Return of COVID (streaming on Paramount+), isn’t just a fart joke about masks and social distancing. It is, surprisingly, the most brutally honest, darkly hilarious, and devastatingly sad take on the last five years that animation has produced.
You are still actively angry about mask mandates, or you hate it when your cartoons make you feel existential dread.