The opening sequence of the new season goes straight to the whole, shows the US President in Adam’s costume and brings Jesus into play.
“South Park” has started the 27th season with a sequence that comes to the center of satirical representation both US President Donald Trump and the media company Paramount.
Recommendations of the editorial team
In addition to Trump and Paramount, the episode entitled “Sermon on the Mount” also focuses on the attitude of the “Late Show with Stephen Colbert”, political polarization (keyword wokeness) and the influence of religious content in schools. The US President is staged in an unusual way-as a real photo on an animated body and in a hyper-realistically designed Deepfake scene, in which he runs naked through a desert landscape.
Timing is everything
The time of broadcasting is striking: Just a day earlier, the “South Park” makers Matt Stone and Trey Parker had a new license agreement with Paramount Global over $ 1.5 billion. This provides for 50 new episodes over five years for comedy Central, as well as exclusive streaming rights on the Paramount+platform. The entire series catalog should also be available there in the future.
Dylan Byers, media journalist at the US portal “Puck”, commented on X (formerly Twitter) that it was remarkable that Parker and Stone published an episode shortly after the contract was concluded, which also critically deals with their new partner Paramount. It is unclear whether and how much headwind was in relation to the broadcast.
Byers commented on X on the new “South Park” episode:
What Jesus has to do with it
The focus of the episode is a fictional legal dispute in which Jesus is forced to return to South Parks schools, allegedly as part of a comparison between Trump and Paramount. When parents protest against the presence of Jesus, Donald Trump threatens a billion action. Jesus then explains that he had no choice because his return was part of a legal comparison. Finally, the city accepts a comparison of $ 3.5 million and undertakes to spread “pro-trump messaging”, which ultimately leads to video staging in which Trump goes naked through the desert …
When is the 27th season in Germany?
In Germany, the first new episode of the 27th season of “South Park” can only be seen from Sunday, July 27th, from 10:15 p.m. via comedy Central. From July 28th you can also stream via Paramount+ in Germany. A new episode will be broadcast per week.