Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

memelian This is a great show for keeping you company during an ongoing early miscarriage. Always good to be reminded that the situation could hade been worse and that the universe can provide some things that are enojoyable. Plus close to no children on screen at all!

pre I watched the first season over the course of a few days. It never really got to the point where I couldn't wait to watch the next episode. It was more like a filler when I had watched everything else. The series about Dori, a girl who wants to find a girl she barely knew in college. She starts to annoy her boyfriend, the girl's family and basically even the viewer with her obsession. While kinda cute I never actually like the character, actually over the course of the show her actions make her more and more unlikeable. Who I really like were the two John's (real names), one is playing the boyfriend and the other her gay friend. I won't spoil any more of the content, they meet all kind of crazy people, many of them really one-dimensional, and none of them really interesting. And here is the biggest problem I had with the show: Most of the characters are too flat for a drama, yet too unfunny for a comedy. Imagine Modern Family, where every character is as they are right now, but nobody ever says anything funny. Or imagine Breaking Bad where you can't take the plot serious because the characters are like from a sitcom. That's my biggest dilemma. There is an actress in there and she is supposed to be a bad actress, I think? Is that supposed to be funny? Because she never says anything funny. But she doesn't matter to the plot as well. Why is she there? Why does she have scenes? Nobody knows and her scenes don't matter. She is just there because she is a blonde, good-looking actress and the lead isn't as attractive enough I guess. Also so the lead can talk to people sometimes and drive them crazy.If there is a season 2, I'm gonna watch it, because of the two John's. Not because of the plot. And I'm gonna watch it on my 2nd monitor while doing something more important on my main monitor. 6,5/10

patrick powell To those who periodically claim that 'the Americans don't have a sense of irony', I always point them in the direction of Seinfeld, Cheers and many other TV comedies to demonstrate just what complete cobblers they are talking. OK, in a country with a population of 319 million people compared to oh-so-ironic Old Blighty's mere 64 million – that's almost five times as many Yanks as Brits – there are bound to be more than a few po-faced individuals who think 'irony' is the 'science of ironing' than here – almost five times as many, probably - but then we in Britain also have our fair share (and I have worked for a few).Well, if that claim yet again raises its ugly head in my company, I shall advise the claimant to seek out and watch all ten episodes of Search Party. It is, in more than one way, quite a little gem.The premise at the heart of the deal is the same as in Seinfeld: take four utterly self-obsessed narcissistic 'millennials' (I'm rather too old to qualify, so I give it a set of ironic quote marks) and follow their lives and sometimes lies. Then throw in a real mystery – the disappearance of a classmate they barely knew and didn't much like but whose fate becomes yet another burden they must bear, sob, sob – and you have a story which fills ten episodes very satisfyingly indeed. (NB They are just 20 minutes long here in Britain because we have been saved ten minutes of crass ads which tend to ruin most programmes.) The performances by the four main characters are so good, funny and entertaining, that the actors deserve an individual mention: Alia Shawkat, John Reynolds, Meredith Hanger and John Early. Alia plays the girl with no life (her daily occupation is to assist for no pay in the most inane way possible a rich New York divorcée who has time on her hands to kill). Her boyfriend is John Reynolds, an unpaid intern. Meredith Hagner (a real hoot) is a small-part TV actress, and John Early is their outrageously camp gay who manages to pull of the difficult trick of not making his gay character into a caricature: he's the real deal and wins you over despite his behaviour.That the writers are aware shows in their inclusion of one or two characters, mainly older ones, who are far more grounded and not quite as self-obsessed.It would be pointless to give a blow-by-blow rendition of the plot, but I should add that it is not just a dramatic device to show us the lives of our four egoists. I shall certainly keep an eye out for the future work of the four, as their work in Search Party can by no means be a one-off. Give this a whirl: if you don't like it, don't think it's funny, think it is nothing special, my advice is to seek out the local branch of your Po-faced Citizens Of America and take out a life membership.

Jessica If you go into this for a cookie-cutter Bones, SVU, CSI type show or constant one-liners you will be disappointed. The characters aren't meant to be likable, but serve to rustle up emotions like annoyance and frustration. The brilliance of this show is its commentary on what it means to search for meaning, fulfillment, and actualization in a post-modernist society. The jokes are subtle and character based. There is a heady dose of nihilism, which is done in a style unlike any other show I've seen, and it's deeply existentialist. This show serves as a mirror into our own lives. That's the kind of mindset it should be viewed in--don't expect to like the characters or a mystery.