“Search Party” started as the story of a search for a missing girl who never really wanted to be found. Everything that’s happened since that series premiere has been a repercussion of a decision to look for someone who no one seemed to care was missing. At its best, the fourth season of the show serves as something of a mirror image of that inciting incident in that the searcher has become a missing girl herself.

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At the risk of being redundant, the tag line for “Search Party” season four — “it stopped being a party a long time ago” — kind of says it all. What started on TBS, as a millennial angst comedy about identity — a lost 20 something without purpose who goes on the search for a missing member of her high school that she wasn’t particularly close with — quickly morphed into a darkly comedic thriller about murder, guilt, delusion and well, yes, still about identity and what we choose to believe about ourselves.

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‘It stopped being a party a long time ago,” is the new tagline for season four of HBO Max‘s “Search Party” and ain’t that the truth. Originally on TBS, “Search Party” was seemingly a fun, amusing, hip, funny show about millennials and millennial angst. A young, 20-something (Alia Shawkat), needs a purpose in her life and when a friend from high school goes missing—one that she doesn’t particularly know very well—she decides to devote her life to finding her.

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Who doesn’t fantasize about shutting off your phones, leaving them inside, and sitting outside staring at the stars with your love? That’s exactly what the couple in “Save Yourselves!” does, and things seem to be going great. Until there’s an alien attack.

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The new sci-fi comedy film, “Save Yourselves!” is set to arrive in theaters this week, and in honor of that release, we are giving our readers an exclusive look at a clip from the film.

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We’re all badly addicted to technology, addicted to our phones, addicted to text message dings, Twitter notifications, Instagram stories, and lord knows what other social media apps distracting us from life and consuming us 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This is the jumping-off point of “Save Yourselves!“: two Brooklyn hipsters fully aware of their social and digital obsessions and deciding to take a trip out of town and to seclusion to unplug from it all.

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Connections are everywhere, whether we like it or not. The very principle of missing out on the electronic kind of social influence plays out in the new film “Save Yourselves!”. This Sundance selection, self described as a sci-fi rom-com, ventures into the perils as well as the advantages of putting down those dreaded devices for a moment.

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The film explores the lives of Jack (John Reynolds) and Su (Sunita Mani).

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As the bevy of new streaming platforms fight for dominance or, in some cases, simply try to prove there is a reason for their existence (looking at you, Quibi), one unlikely contender has jumped ahead of the pack. The brand spanking new HBO Max is coming out swinging, boasting one very important accomplishment: bringing about the return of “Search Party.”

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The criminally under-watched, but critically acclaimed and undeniably enjoyable dark comedy, will return soon with season three, but on a new platform.

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“Search Party” began with a missing girl and became a show about another girl who has gone missing in her own way. But its transformation along the way— from self-absorbed millennial comedy, to paranoid murder mystery, to something much darker and the way it straddles, humor, hipster youth irony, and existentialist moral dread—has been astonishing. Launched on TBS in 2016, “Search Party” was initially the story of the wonderfully named Chantal Witherbottom (Clare McNulty), who disappeared from her relatively posh NYC life.

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