History Series / SearchParty

* {{Cult}}: The pregnancy-obsessed cult [[spoiler: that operates out of a fancy art and jewelry store in Brooklyn is initially believed to be connected to Chantal’s disappearance]].

* [[BlackComedyRape Black Comedy Harassment]]: Julian is sexually harassed in a racist manner by [[spoiler: Mary Ferguson, the state Senate candidate he is working for]]. It's [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Double Standard Female On Male]], and he cannot get any help from [[spoiler: Dory, who shops the evidence to pay off her blackmailer]].

* CowboyCop: played with, since Detective Joy [[spoiler: shot "Fat Frankie" by accident when he startled her]]. She may find herself an ally of Dory next season since [[spoiler: she signed a statement that Frankie confessed to killing Keith]].

* {{Cult}}: The pregnancy-obsessed cult [[spoiler:that operates out of a fancy art and jewelry store in Brooklyn]].
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:Everything Dory and the rest of the group did was absolutely pointless and Keith is dead for no reason at all. The first season ends with Dory looking shell-shocked into the camera.]]

* {{Hipster}}: Dory, Drew, Elliott, and Portia are caricatures of Brooklyn hipsters.

* OnlySaneMan: Julian.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: April delivers one to Dory about how awful and entitled she and her friends are. [[spoiler:It costs her her life.]]
* RedHerring: [[spoiler: Everything turns out to have a relatively benign explanation: Chantal was having an affair with a married man, and left the city to cool her nerves.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler:Dory starts suffering from hallucinations in season 2 in the wake of covering up Keith's death, and Elliott has an outright mental breakdown.]]

When Dory Sief (Creator/AliaShawkat) spots a missing person flier for a girl she vaguely knew in college named Chantal Witherbottom (Claire [=McNulty=]), she decides to devote herself to finding her, enlisting her boyfriend Drew Gardner (John Reynolds) and their friends Elliott Goss (John Early) and Portia Davenport (Meredith Hagner). Along the way, they come into contact with and confront people like Lorraine (Rosie Perez), an insane real estate agent who claims to know Chantal; Keith (Ron Livingston), a private investigator working Chantal's case; and Julian (Brandon Michael Hall), Dory's do-gooding journalist ex-boyfriend.

* AllForNothing: [[spoiler:With Chantal's benign reason for disappearing, the entire season becomes this.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:The Search Party; from left to right, Portia, Elliott, Dory, Julian, and Drew.]]''Search Party'' is a dark comedy television series on Creator/{{TBS}}, created by Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter. The first season premiered on November 21, 2016. The second season premiered on November 19, 2017.

* Cult: The pregnancy-obsessed cult [[spoiler:that operates out of a fancy art and jewelry store in Brooklyn]].

* [[BlackComedyRape Black Comedy Harassment]]: Julian is sexually harassed in a racist manner by [[spoiler: the Senate candidate he is working for]]. It's [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Double Standard Female On Male]], and he cannot get any help from [[spoiler: Dory, who shops the evidence to pay off her blackmailer]].

* BlackmailBackfire: [[spoiler: April gets pushed off a ferry and probably killed]] for blackmailing the group, [[spoiler: but more for telling Portia she intends to torment them all about the murder forever]].

* ChronicEvidenceRetentionSyndrome: [[spoiler:Drew suffers a bit of this when he steals the black decorative obelisk –
which he used to kill Keith – from the house in Montreal]].

* ItsAllAboutMe: Multiple characters on the show, but none more so than Elliott. [[spoiler:At least, until the group actually finds Chantal.]]

* NiceGuy: Julian. He's smart, mature, forgiving, and even tutors high school kids on the side. [[spoiler:He even drops off a gift for Elliott after publishing an article about how Elliott has spent his life lying about having cancer as a child.]]

''Search Party'' is a dark comedy television series on Creator/{{TBS}}, premiering on November 21, 2016. The second season premiered on November 19, 2017.

When Dory Sief (Creator/AliaShawkat) comes across a missing person flier for a girl whom she vaguely knew from college named Chantal Witherbottom (Claire [=McNulty=]), she decides to devote herself to finding her, enlisting her boyfriend Drew Gardner (John Reynolds) and their friends Elliott Goss (John Early) and Portia Davenport (Meredith Hagner). Along the way, they come into contact with and confront people like Lorraine (Rosie Perez), an insane real estate agent who claims to know Chantal, Keith (Ron Livingston), a private investigator working Chantal's case, and Julian (Brandon Michael Hall), Dory's journalist ex-boyfriend.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Multiple characters on the show, but none more so than Elliott. [[spoiler:At least, not until the group actually finds Chantal.]]

* Hipster: Dory, Drew, Elliott, and Portia are caricatures of Brooklyn hipsters.

* ItsAllAboutMe: Multiple characters on the show, but none moreso than Elliott. [[spoiler:At least, not until the group actually finds Chantal.]]

''Search Party'' is a dark comedy television series on Creator/{{TBS}}, premiering n November 21, 2016. On December 13, it was renewed for a second season.

When Dory (Creator/AliaShawkat) comes across a missing person flier for Chantal Witherbottom (Claire [=McNulty=]), she decides to devote herself to finding her, enlisting her boyfriend Drew (John Reynolds) and their friends Elliott (John Early) and Portia (Meredith Hagner). Along the way, they come into contact with and confront people like Lorraine (Rosie Perez), an insane real estate agent who claims to know Chantal, Keith (Ron Livingston), a private investigator working Chantal's case, and Julian (Brandon Michael Hall), Dory's journalist ex-boyfriend.

* ClusterFBomb: In the {{Pilot}}, Dory screams at Drew repeatedly to "Shut the fuck up." Later on, the Neighbor gives him a ReasonYouSuckSpeech [[UpToEleven that is eve more vulgar.]]
* ,CrazyHomelessPeople: Lorraine.