TBS's Search
Party is a dark comedy about four
self-absorbed 20-somethings who become entangled
in an ominous mystery when a former college
acquaintance named Chantal suddenly disappears.
Led by Alia Shawkat (Arrested
Development), the cast of Search Party
features an ensemble of young comic actors,
including John Early,
John Reynolds, Meredith Hagner
and Brandon Micheal Hall.
Search Party is slated to launch
Thanksgiving week (Nov. 21 - Nov. 25),
with two episodes airing each night from 11
p.m,-midnight (ET/PT).
Search Party centers on Dory
(Shawkat), a fragile, frustrated, life-long
doormat who's not particularly proud of her
impact on the world, especially since her
greatest accomplishment to date is organizing
clothes to be donated to Goodwill for her
wealthy employer. Dory feels stuck in a stale
and disconnected relationship with her
boyfriend, Drew (Reynolds), a kind of clueless,
complacent, spoon-fed doofus who just really
loves Christmas. She also feels removed from her
closest friends, Elliott (Early), a
self-diagnosed narcissist who loves adding job
titles to his designer-stylist-curator
multi-hyphenate lifestyle, and Portia (Hagner),
an actress always struggling to balance the
challenging demands of chronic insecurity and
pathological self-absorption.
Search Party opens with Dory
learning that Chantal, a girl she barely knew in
college, has gone missing. Despite having almost
no personal connection to her, Dory becomes
fixated on the mystery. Dory, Drew, Elliott, and
Portia are not crime solvers. They
value brunch, parties, and their own loud
opinions. So when Dory drags her three friends,
along with her journalist ex-boyfriend Julian
(Hall), into a bumbling, perilous pursuit to
find the missing girl, they soon learn the
meaning of real danger and become entangled in a
sinister plot that is more than their privileged
Brooklyn lifestyles ever bargained for.
Search Party is executive-produced
by Michael Showalter (Hello,
My Name Is Doris, Wet Hot American Summer),
along with Sarah-Violet Bliss
and Charles Rogers, whose
credits include the 2014 SXSW Film Festival
Grand Jury Award-winning feature film Fort
Tilden and Wet Hot American Summer:
First Day of Camp. Tony Hernandez
(Broad City, Inside Amy Schumer, Louie)
and Lilly Burns (Broad
City, Difficult People, Younger) also serve
as executive producers. TBS Originals
is producing Search Party in
association with Jax Media.