Disclaimer: I didn't pay for Paramount + to watch this special. I watched it on a website. Just wanted to clarify that I didnt give another shitty streaming service my money lol
I thought it was okay, but I knew they were gonna pull the "muh both sides" shit. The sub plot with randy was kinda funny too. Still isnt as funny as older south park though, and a user said here in another thread that South Park isnt as anti establishment and contrarian as it used to be, and he's right. South Park has so much stuff to make fun of in this clown world, but I feel like they are holding back a bit. Is it just me?
I stopped finding South Park funny around 2010 when they started to run out of ideas for smarter more evergreen episodes and instead just relied heavily on referencing whatever the current pop culture or news event is.
I gave them another chance during the height of the SJW boom in 2014 when people were hyping their new episode titled "The Cissy" which was supposed to take the piss out of troons and SJWs, only for it to have some confusing non sequitur message at the end which essentially just affirmed the narrative.
Season 18 still had a few great episodes, like "Freemium Isn't Free", but yeah, I agree that that's when it really seemed to start to go downhill in quality.
I think the last time I remember laughing at an episode was the one with the loud motorcycle gang terrorizing the town