What I'm Watching: "Search Party"

My latest television obsession is TBS' addictive mystery-comedy Search Party — we burned through half the season in one day and finished the entire first season in two days.

Revolving around the disappearance of the college acquaintance of a group of self-absorbed 20-somethings in Brooklyn, it stars Alia Shawkat as Dory, who didn't really know the missing girl — the perfectly named Chantal Witherbottom — but can't let go of the mystery surrounding her disappearance, nor can she truly begin her own life. The result is like Girls crossed with Veronica Mars and is both brilliantly weird and tartly acerbic, both a celebration and indictment of self-absorbed 20-somethings.

Watch it immediately.

(Also: Search Party is deftly plotted and brilliantly written, building to a killer ending at the end of the ten-episode first season. The setup for a second season is so perfectly clear and thematically ideal. So I'm keeping my fingers tightly crossed that there's news soon about a second season renewal.)