South Park (TV Series) The Streaming Wars Part 2 (2022) User Reviews

I see what they're doing, but...

[ethanlikestowritestuff · 7/10 · 13 July 2022]

This is the kind of television you can enjoy if you afford it a lot of goodwill. It made me laugh twice, which is more than most shows these days, but it's not like the heights of the show back in the day.

What I will say though is that it's becoming very clear that Trey and Matt feel pretty nostalgic about the earlier seasons, and for what it's worth, I think that's a good thing. They clearly have respect for what made South Park good in the first place and they want to honor that.

I think the problem comes with the fact that these meta-narratives are getting a little rediculous. This feels like something a talented fan fiction writer would make and feel proud of themselves about, but not an actual South Park episode.

I think it's getting clear that these characters might be getting a little thin for now. Honestly, focusing on the adult versions of these characters and their families seems like it's becoming more and more of an essential development.

The end of Tegridy?

[clsupersonic · 7/10 · 14 July 2022]

Randy Marsh is one of my favorite South Park characters. He always has been for his bizarre life decisions and hilarious moments. But the Tegridy storylines took what made Randy such an interesting character and sucked the life out of it. He was great as a backup character to the boys. I missed him as "Stan's weird dad" and not the main focus of the show.

In this episode they hinted at retiring the Tegridy farms storyline (most likely due to fan backlash though Matt and Trey don't seem to care that much about that lol), but then seemed to bring it back for the end of the episode. I really hope they permanently get rid of Tegridy farms and bring back the old Randy, and more importantly, keep the show about Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny. They seemed to go back to their roots a little in season 25, even featuring Randy in his original outfit and episodes focused solely around the boys. I hope they make it official in the next season and get rid of Tegridy. Also, a Kenny-focused episode in the new season would be awesome.

Better than part 1

[inacan-90-894261 · 7/10 · 13 July 2022]

It's somewhat nonsensical and it relies on literal toilet humor. But it's entertaining and short enough that you don't get too bored by it. It's still a weaker South Park than seasons past and doesn't target as much of the current political climate but it does live up to the premise. Streaming services are helping create lower quality programming to fill their broadcast slots. This is a lower quality than normal for South Park but that could be simply because it's stretched out over 50 minutes instead of a tight 22.

Accurate satire for an okay episode

[stevenmonkeydishwasher · 7/10 · 15 July 2022]

Not overly funny, just appropriately targeted satire at streaming, crypto, and celebrities, especially spot on criticism of streaming services not obtaining talent, especially considering I also watched the abomination that was Netflix Resident Evil also today, no amount of properties are gonna matter without any talent to actually make them good.

South Park writers are becoming lazy or the creators are losing their edge

[ferdinandspirit · 6/10 · 13 July 2022]

Like the title says. Lately, they've been putting out a bit of garbage material. I will always watch South Park because I'm a loyal die hard fan of the show, but I have to retort that the creators could go back to their roots when every episode took us by surprise, entertained us fully and always kept us guessing the next scene.

Now, I swear, I could tell what was going to happen every time before I even saw it. The show needs to either hire new avant guarde writers that get it, or the creators need to strap on their big boy belts and guide the show in a new direction. I can appreciate the efforts to make new material, and at that, that it can be a very difficult task after so many seasons, but something has to be done, or the show will decline in viewership.

Don't take it from me and judge for yourselves. Watch the darn thing and tell me you weren't left with a hole in your stomach.

This one restored Randy, how on Earth can anybody be disappointed?

[tcamyuntoldartist · 7/10 · 15 July 2022]

I'm continuing to feel that none of these really require the Paramount+ runtime, and are regular episodes worth of material stretched out. But i just adjust my mindset accordingly, i'm watching a "special" episode, and it's not a problem really. Very decent, far from perfect, and not exactly great, but very decent. Randy is gonna be actually himself from this on, i'm so happy!

Good, but a bit basic

[grantss · 7/10 · 5 April 2024]

The streaming wars have ended and the drought in Colorado is worse than ever. Mr Pipi hits upon the idea of using pee as a substitute for water...in all situations...and gains much traction with this after major stars appear in his ads. Karen Marsh goes back to being Randy Marsh, scientist, and tries to find a better solution to the water shortage.

Part 1 of The Streaming Wars was very good: a funny, clever satirical look at streaming services. Not brilliant - it never fully made a point re streaming services - but was very entertaining.

Part 2 is still pretty funny but not up to the same standard as Part 1. There's less satire and more gross-out humour - the pee-as-a-substitute-for-water plot was gross and gratuitous from the start and was done to death. Similarly the Cartman's breasts sub-plot.

Overall, it's still entertaining but in a more basic sort of way.

A slight return to form

[canneryblowers · 9/10 · 13 July 2022]

Part 2 of "The Streaming Wars" is a return to the earlier days of South Park and the kids. I prefer this over part one and can tell they listened to their viewers opinions after part 1. They do have some kinks to work out, but this was a great hour-long special. Just pour yourself a stiff drink and enjoy the satire. God knows we all need that.

Yes

[zanderklyons-43800 · 15 July 2022]

Better than part 1 (part 1 was still really good). I mean south park is normally a 10. This episode isnt as good as most episodes, again, still really good.

Not funny enough, but it does make you think

[sktraut · 7/10 · 4 August 2022]

This episode is more introspective than funny, which makes it a pretty weak entry. There's a few jokes repeated over and over that don't land. The interesting streaming wars plot turns into the Pi-Pi show, which serves mostly to gross-out and disappoint. However the best things about the episode come from semi-serious moments. MBP seems a little shoehorned in, but the episode often meditates on the state of South Park itself. Randy's character arc hear isn't funny really, but it sort of feels like the creators are talking directly to their audience. The theme of streaming services ruining everything (namely South Park's groove) makes both parts of the episode worth a watch. This is a take on, more or less, their own situation.

It was something alright. .

[Mizzlebip · 5/10 · 15 July 2022]

So it was better than part 1, but part 1 put the bar pretty low so take that as you will.. I just finished the streaming wars part 2 and I'm gonna be honest, I got that emotional happy feeling when randy went back to normal. Like when you feel like you could cry, except not physically like you're not gonna start weeping and tearing up or anything but in your chest it's all like genuinely happy? Maybe I'm just blinded by that feeling, but I was genuinely fine with everything else in the show when Randy was back to normal. It was all good. Hell, i thought this special was really good actually!

Then he brought back the Karen and weed stuff and even though I knew it was gonna happen cause I read spoilers, I was still just so disappointed.

I hope this was just for the special and that Randy really does go back to normal at least somewhat. Otherwise it was alright. It was fun to watch through once, but similar to the vaccination specials and other tegridy weed episodes, it's not something I can see myself ever rewatching. Like not even a second time through.

To be honest, the only specials I've liked so far were the PostCovid ones. Those kicked ass!

While I'm here, another issue with this special, and just the episodes and show right now is just the lack of usual characters.

In this Streamijg Wars special, Nobody from CATG (except Tolkien) even made an appearance, none of the girls either, barely any of the kids, Kyle was there for maybe 30 seconds total before never appearing again, and Kenny was just gone completely.

I also noticed that the characters that the show does focus on are mostly voiced by Trey. Is Matt even working on the show outside of the business department? I feel like you could at least try and convince him to come in and do voice acting for an episode/special since he's the co-creator of the show who voices half the cast and all. Can he just not be F'd to participate, or is this someone else's decision to exclude him? I love Trey as much as the next guy but he's making things worse for the show and himself by taking it all on his own. The show kinda needs that balance. It's not like im hating, cause I love South Park and have for a long time. I just know I couldn't personally handle pumping out specials like that physically or emotionally, I'd lose creativity too. But I'm not a millionaire. You guys on the other hand can afford to suck it up and better yourselves and get your shiz together. I know life is hard but you have the ability to make things a little better, and as stupid as it may sound, you need to stop being surrounding yourself by yes-men and just let loose again.

Fantastic

[matthewdickson-14180 · 10/10 · 13 July 2022]

Great part two, shows they listened to criticisms relating to part 1 and the last few seasons. A true return to form.

The humour and allegory seems to go over a lot of peoples heads reading reviews for both parts. But I appreciate it is hard to look beyond pee jokes to understand their true meaning.

Ain't what it used to be

[knarf129 · 5/10 · 17 July 2022]

This show has been going downhill for a while. While the new episode did contain some laughs, it was mostly toilet humor and nothing laugh-out-loud funny. It's not sure if it wants to be social satire or an adventure show. Either way I think Matt and Trey are getting too old to make a show revolving around 10-year-old boys, and now have to make the show revolve around Randy. This has also (as they admit in the episode) ruined the character of Randy as well.

I feel like they don't really know what to do with the show at this point and try to use stale memes (Karen) in order to stay relevant. They did something similar with the tiresome Mr. Garrison as Trump gag. It might be time to call it quits.

worst that part 1

[pangis910 · 18 July 2022]

Catman still has big boo ba , and all this hate against crypto ...

Crypto is the future and more important than before in the inflation , who knew south park creators were stuch a boomers !

i'm surprised

[talllwoood13 · 7/10 · 28 August 2022]

From acknowledging how stupid Randy's weed farm alone is worthy of this being more than a 5 star. They are getting their edge back with Cartman's surgery, the evil villain in it and the plot was somewhat unique if they keep this up I might watch the show more regularly as the last few years I was slowly giving up on them. I felt the ending how they dealt with the bad guy could have been a bit better but cartman's last part was something people won't forget for ages. If Paramount plus is why this turned out better than the last 2-3 years of comedy network I think it's time to ditch them and move onto greener pastures that are less woke and more willing to try new things.

Streaming Wars

[ca75 · 9/10 · 14 July 2022]

I am happy there is also story arc for manbearpig - he deserved it - but I wondered: how did it fit into the story? Will he be back?

It's definitely Pipi+ :-)

Good to see Randy back but this is a terrible episode

[walnut_who · 3/10 · 19 July 2022]

What's the point of repeating the celebrities backing up for pipi+? Being sarcastic? Once would have been enough. There's no fun in it at all and it's way too disgusting.

Tegrity Weed should've been a one- or two- episode thing, but it lasted for years and the idea of this weed thing never make any sense. Many characters had been out-of-character for a long long time, the most terrible ones were Randy and Garrison. Hope to see the whole show get to "normal" soon. I love South Park, I don't want it cancelled, or live on like the recent seasons.

Better than the last one

[ericstevenson · 8/10 · 16 July 2022]

This is labeled as a movie, but it really is more of another special. I like the episodes better. This movie/special features a drought coming everywhere with Pi-Pi taking advantage of the situation by using pee for his water park, or I guess pee park is more accurate. We learn that Manbearpig has a family and Pi-Pi is using them to control them. I really did like the use of celebrities here. I thought that Randy would be returning to his form.

I was annoyed at how he was just going back to what he was doing earlier. At least we get a nice resolution and good pacing from the previous installment. It could have used more jokes. It was good how the celebrities were more disgusting by what was going on than the audience. That's how comedy should work. They mentioned events that happened three years ago, yet how are the characters the same age? ***

Closure episode I guess

[yigittt · 3/10 · 14 July 2022]

I've enjoyed this show for like 20 years and thank you to the creators and everyone involved for that. Unfortunately. "tegridy farms" happened in 2018 and the show has been disappointing since. Streaming Wars part 2 as well as part 1 are just awful and I completely agree with the viewer discretion warning at the beginning that this shouldn't be viewed by anyone. It is so bad it is actually sad.

A Surprising return to form!

[squirrelmagic · 9/10 · 14 July 2022]

After years of flanderization, with a few good gags, Part I was fun, but it felt like it was going a little too hard and setting itself up for failure..but it delivered! The jokes work, it's relevant, it's creative..but most of all it's actually fun to watch.

I'm hoping this is the beginning of a bright new Era.

Wasn't funny

[jwjwjwsajajsj · 3/10 · 13 July 2022]

I was really looking forward to this second part, not really because I found the first one funny (apart from Eric's breast implants), but cus I wanted to see how the story ended. Unfortunately, it just didn't end on a satisfying note, and seemed very dragged out. The jokes about Randy as a Karen were a bit funny in part 1 but got pushed WAY too far here! To the point where he is just becoming annoying. All the other jokes and scenes were pretty lame as well. So overall, I didn't enjoy this special, hoping the next South Park episodes and movies can be better.

Best movie yet

[cristopherpinzon · 10/10 · 27 July 2022]

The redeeming of characters an a lot of real life parodies. A lot better than the first. Tons of double meaning and funny jokes. This movie is proof that South Park is still relevant and funny.

Why...

[nolanskowronski-83429 · 1/10 · 19 July 2022]

The pandemic, vaccination and now both streaming wars episodes made me hate this show. South park used to be amazing and yes it was slightly going down but it was still good Trey, and Matt should be ashamed of themselves for letting their show get this bad.

Southpark endgame

[mordaviram · 9/10 · 15 July 2022]

The last episode felt like the "endgame" for everything that happened during the last 3 years of southpark. The doctor strange scene made me laugh a lot. The criticism about crypto was on point.

They should have bashed the media bias, the US presidency and the Ukraine war, but they rather keep it more simple and close to the show core plot lines.

I was missing something new here, but it felt like more of a finale to the last 2 years sagas rather than a new one, so it is understandable. Southpark Endgame.

Lame...

[ajd4 · 2/10 · 20 August 2022]

I have enjoyed South Park right up until these episodes ... and generally I get irritated when I read reviews from people that say South Park has lost it and isn't funny anymore, but these two episodes were dreadful, lame, boring, stomach churning. There was zero humor here and lame social commentary. So someone is ticked off about the streaming services, then why is South Park on Paramount +? What's the joke? And the conversations, the tedious explanatory conversations, were so lame and boring, I just wanted to turn it off.