Last season, Dory had a difficult time. Alia Shawkat, who played the anti-hero in the TBS-turned-HBO Max cult hit Search Party, went from idle New York City millennial to kidnapped victim, held captive, tortured, and brainwashed by an evil Twink. Dory appears cheerful, almost effervescent, in the trailer for the show’s fifth and final season. The only issue? She seemed to have turned into a cult leader.
At the start of the trailer, an awoken Dory cryptically warns a trio of doctors, “I believe that if people don’t wake up soon, something extremely horrible will happen to us.” What does she mean when she says, “I have to save everyone from their pain?” Even her pals are baffled, with one dismissing her outbursts as “narcissism” and another declaring, “If that isn’t what insanity looks like, I don’t know what is.”
Others, though, disagree. Jeff Goldblum appears as “Tunnel Quinn,” declaring breathlessly that Dory’s ideas — which appear to be a mix of New Age and hippie nonsense with a hint of something sinister — “may change the path of human history.”
As a result, Dory, whose selfish, dumb acts have resulted in the deaths of others, may become even more deadly than before. That is to say, she becomes well-known. (And, no doubt, profitable.) On top of that, a show that has already sparked a slew of articles about what it says about millennials will add gasoline to an already blazing fire. And it’ll do it while casting John Waters in what appears to be a pivotal part.
