★★★★★- Wow. What an insane show. I felt it kept getting better and peaked with Cole Escola. Then the last season was way too much with a BA-NAN-As ending. I loved it. Also, a great contemporary New York City show, like Broad City.
The overall gist... is sort of impossible to explain. Focusing on the first season, Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat), whose life is in a rut, throws herself into trying to find an acquaintance from college who has gone missing. Her horrible friends--weeny boyfriend Drew Gardner (John Reynolds [whom people say I look like but I don't see]), flamboyant serial liar Elliott Goss (John Early, sort of a millennial that guy), and vapid actress (Meredith Hagner)--rightly think she is losing it. This ultimately leads to the literal end of the world. The missing girl, who, spoiler, shows back up, one Chantal Witherbottom (Clare McNulty), is hilariously dumb.
The second season focuses on trying to cover up various deaths they have caused while the third season is a trial for one of those deaths. Louis Anderson hilariously plays the defense attorney in this season. He's great.
The fourth season is where shit veers hard with Chip Wreck, a psychoticaly obsessed man played by Cole Escola, kidnapping and brainwashing Dory. Susan Sarandon shows up in this season as an insane presence in Chip's life. She's perfect.
The last season is where shit goes to crazytown. Dory is a cult leader funded by a Big Tech Pharma company. Her disciples are the aforementioned friends and a group of social media influencer brought together by their patron, a billionaire tech mogulTunnel Quinn played by Jeff Goldblum. Dory and the team are attempting to achieve transcendental enlightenment through a pill. It is a complete disaster.
Couldn't recommend it more. The first couple of episodes were meh. If you get through those, it really pays off. It shan't disappoint. Five stars.
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