‘Search Party’ Series Finale Recap: Dory Comes Full Cirlce With One Final Genre Switch, Co-Creator Talks Ending Coming-Of-Age Comedy With [SPOILER]s

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SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the final series of Search Party, including the finale “Revelation.”Enlightenment isn’t glorious, but gory and gross look in the series finale of HBO Max’s Search Party.

In the final hours of the dark comedy, created by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, Dory (Alia Shawkat) brings about the end of the world, after her quest to spread joy and love in the form of a pill backfires.In true Search Party fashion, Dory’s intentions to do right by others, and selfishly herself, once again evolve into a much more complicated and fatal scenario that puts everyone around her at risk.“I hate to say it babe, but you did it again,” Dory’s ever-faithful friend, and brief lover, Portia (Meredith Hagner) says. “Except it’s way worse this time.”After escaping a fun house riddled with Dory’s disciples-turned-zombies, Portia and Elliott (John Early) catch up with Dory and Drew (John Reynolds) who are handing out “enlightenment” to eager consumers and fanatics.

Elliott reveals that he switched his friends’ pills the previous day with placebos, preventing them from transforming into the flesh-seeking zombies ransacking the city around them.

Fearing for their lives, the gang run away to Elliott and Marc’s (Jeffrey Self) home.They watch the news, which warns of a fast-spreading “unidentified personality disorder,” until they’re chased out by Marc and Elliott’s zombie-fied adopted son.At this point, it’s pretty clear that Shawkat was not lying when she previously told Deadline about “[wraping] up this world while destroying it at the same time.” Dory and her friends run out onto the streets of New York where they’re greeted by seemingly endless chaos and bloodshed at every corner.To make