cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/33408045
Show begins 27th season covering Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount and cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show, depicting Trump in bed with Satan
South Park has kicked off its 27th season with a blistering episode taking aim at Donald Trump and its newly minted parent company, Paramount, just one day after signing a $1.5bn deal with the network.
The premiere episode, “Sermon on the Mount,” sees Trump in bed with series regular Satan and covers topics including Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount, the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, wokeness, Trump’s attacks on Canada and more.
Unlike other characters, Trump is depicted as an actual photo of the US president on an animated body. There is also an extended scene featuring a hyper-realistic, deepfake video of Trump, completely naked, walking in a desert. There are repeated suggestions that Trump’s genitalia are small.
So this was absolutely incredible. Anyone else seen it?
Yeah there’s definitely some of that. I don’t know if they made these people or these people flocked to SP because they see some of themselves in it. I guess people who don’t have established belief systems can be influenced that way. I’ve always viewed it from a leftist lens and perhaps I see what I want to see and miss what I don’t. They’re often ambiguous enough to let me do that. I can totally see how that could and perhaps does work differently for others.