Am I the only one reading in this a statement that the pandemic is never going away and each of us who still takes it seriously is crazy? The entire national guard shows up for one confirmed case, and obviously there’s the whole premise of 40 years passing. This really rubs me the wrong way since I seem to be the only person where I live who is willing to go to the extremely low effort of putting on a mask for the five minutes that I’m in a liquor store the day before Thanksgiving. Oh, and the whole old people aren’t allowed to die thing? Am I wrong that what they mean by the whole spirit of youthful optimism thing that we’re supposed to regain is actually just not giving a shit? And obviously the protracted gag about how expecting comedy to be politically correct (I’m sorry; “woke”) ruins comedy is a lazy execution on a lazy understanding of that issue.

There’s stuff I enjoyed here, like Alexa as a contentious surrogate wife who fulfills commands by physically picking up other devices and using them or Cartman possibly constructing his entire life for forty years as well as those of his wife and kids as a single mind-fuck for Kyle, but as usual there are these shitty sociopolitical messages that fill me with resentment and detract from the whole thing.