While South Park rarely takes a side on any issues, the show’s best Christmas episode in years proved that the satirical comedy could benefit from doing so more often. South Park’s creators have, since the show’s inception, prided themselves on being “equal opportunity offenders.” South Park aims to be a bipartisan political satire that takes aim at “everyone” and mocks both sides of any given issue. The show’s commitment to offending viewers via shock value humor, and the willingness of South Park’s creators to stand by their work, is hard to question.
One of CBS' newest sitcoms, Ghosts , features a cast full of spectral characters that each hail from a distinct time period and come with their own unique backstory and death. Though each of the eight ghosts has a wildly different perspective based on their different experiences throughout history, they nonetheless form a sort of family, which is one of the show's greatest charms. After all, being stuck with the same people for all of eternity allows for plenty of time to get to know each other. Ghosts , which is an adaptation of a BBC show of the same name, stars Utkarsh Ambudkar and Rose McIver (who played Liv Moore on five seasons of iZombie ) as Jay and Sam, a young couple who inherit a mansion in upstate New York. To their surprise, however, the house also comes with several ghostly inhabitants, who Sam is able to see after a near-death experience. These are Thorfinn (Devan Long), Sasappis (Román Zaragoza), Isaac (Brandon Scott Jones), Hetty (Rebecca Wisocky...
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