Mormons have a similar fabricated truth but manage to have to have built something healthy as religions go. Scientology is based on a fabricated myth and it rips off its devotees. I saw this with a similar episode on Mormons and the difference is striking. So when you have something from real life that's strange and it is inserted in an episode, the power of anticriticism is so much more powerful. It isn't that strange things happen and are underscored as strange, its that strange and terrible things happen and are underscored as not strange. Death, for instance, is as casual as turning on a light. Its how it is presented that's cool, and what impresses me about the creators of this. Until now, when his "religion" is the target. For years and years, South Park has bitten hard on the stupidities of society, especially the obvious candidates: sex, politics, religion.
This is the first of a recent batch, and the most highly recommended by a reader. But I am almost always blown away by South Park episodes, at least the ones that are recommended to me.
Only "Singing Detective" impressed me, indeed really grabbed me. That's especially true of "quality" productions made in the BBC tradition.
Many, many times, I dip into TeeVee offerings and find them depressingly vacuous.
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