Search Party is the millennial dark comedy you absolutely need to binge

Get on it.

If you haven't been watching Search Party, why haven't you been watching Search Party?  The dark comedy has been changing lives (mine) and breaking hearts (mine) ever since it dropped onto my All4 app last year. The series follows the often dull and seemingly uneventful lives of four millennials living in New York. The lead character, Dory (played by Alia Shawkat), is essentially super bored with her life so she decides to invest all her time and energy into trying to figure out the location of a missing girl she met literally one time in college. What follows is a trail of total destruction, deceit, and confusion all triggered by the fact that some young one was literally just a bit bored and in need of attention one day. Been there. However, the show's first season ends with a Big Issue that forces the millennials to realise that sometimes your problems really aren't that bad at all when compared to actual problems in the form of a Big Issue that I will not name here because spoilers. Basically, you should be watching the show. Here are some reasons why: 1. Alia Shawkat is the star Enough said really, don't need any more of a reason than that. Apart from having one of the greatest wardrobes to ever grace the small screen, Shawkat's also no stranger to the odd intensely popular comedy. She's probably best known for playing Maeby Fünke in Arrested Development but she's also made appearances in Broad City and The Final Girls. She's essentially a class actor who's got an array of jazzy shirts that you'll never get bored of looking at. Ideal. 2. It's genuinely funny Yes, it's a comedy, so yes, it should be funny, but lads, lots of comedies just aren't these days. It's an unfortunate fact, and yet, a true one, so we've honestly been blessed with the existence of Search Party because while the jokes may be more subtle than the in-your-face unfunny 'humour' we're used to from the likes of The Big Bang Theory, it's there and it's clever as hell. Take this for example - there's a scene in the second season where Elliott (played by John Early) proposes to his ex-boyfriend in a supermarket when that ex-boyfriend is one a date with someone else but the ex-boyfriend says yes anyway and the pair are only delighted. See? Funny and relatable. 3. ... But also genuinely stressful  Look, I like shows that affect me in some way. Be it shows that make me happy, shows that make me sad, or shows that make me straight-up anxious, I will absolutely be a fan of them regardless. Search Party makes me feel all of the above emotions at once - the marker of a great dark comedy. After all, what's the point of watching somebody mess up their entire life on screen if you can't absolutely empathise with the situation and feel really uneasy about it? Ideal Saturday night in, to be honest. 4. Michael Showalter's the show's co-creator Have you seen Wet Hot American Summer?  If you haven't, please go watch Wet Hot American Summer as soon as possible. If you have, you'll be more than familiar with Michael Showalter's work - it's funny, it's absurd, it's just weird enough to make you question what you're watching but you go along with it anyway because it's just so bloody funny. Unlike WHAS, Showalter isn't the star of Search Party (not a millennial), but he does make more than his fair share of appearance's as Drew (John Reynolds)'s boss who is accused of sleeping with Drew's co-worker's wife because Drew wants to move to China to essentially run away from The Big Issue that they're all facing. It's a whole thing. Just watch it. 5. It's strangely relatable in an unnerving way  Search Party is about millennials, so understandably, Search Party is going to be relatable to millennials. It's got everything - alcohol-based brunches, intense social media use, complaints about problems that are not really problems, boredom, lies, over the top looks, and a load of people who are just extra as fuck and don't really have a whole lot to do with their lives. That being said, being able to see something of yourself in these characters is not really something to be proud of. And I see a lot of myself in them. The first two seasons of Search Party are available to watch now on All4.