By the end of the fourth season, Dory died and came back to life, and that was the journey she needed to go on to actually experience a true epiphany and moment of growth. She ended up committing two murders and standing trial, vehemently denying her guilt all the way through and ultimately becoming the one who needed to be saved - from herself, sure, but also in the fourth season from being kidnapped and held captive in a basement by Chip (Cole Escola). Starting with Dory’s (Alia Shawkat) wishful thinking that she could play detective and save a missing friend in the first season, the writer-producer duo kept seeding denial into the story, digging their main character into deeper and darker trouble as time went on. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched the fourth season of “ Search Party,” streaming now on HBO Max.Īs “Search Party” creators and executive producers Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers worked on evolving their dark comedy season over season, they always wanted to find a new way to focus on how “fractured and extreme” some people’s psyches can be, as Rogers puts it.

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