South Park is currently dominating the Paramount+ streaming charts. According to FlixPatrol, it is in the Top 3 in 25+ countries, and currently sits at the #1 spot in the United States. The series began its 28th season on October 15, and the latest episode, which was a Halloween special, has been a hit with audiences. The long-running satire sitcom has surged past every other show on the platform, including two of Taylor Sheridan’s biggest streaming hits, Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown.
Sylvester Stallone-starrer Tulsa King is one of the best crime dramas on TV right now. Its second season earned wide praise and even landed a flawless 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, and the series is currently releasing new Season 3 episodes. Mayor of Kingstown, led by Jeremy Renner, is in its fourth season and continues to pull solid viewership numbers. But all that star power and strong storytelling still fall short compared to South Park‘s cultural pull. On the U.S. streaming charts, Mayor of Kingstown sits at #3 while Tulsa King is at #2.
The latest South Park episode, Season 28, Episode 2, “The Woman in the Hat,” has turned into a huge hit because, once again, the show is taking jabs at the White House. In the episode, Donald Trump is shown overseeing the destruction of the White House’s East Wing. He’s promised his lover Satan that the new space will be turned into a nursery for their soon-to-arrive love child, but secretly plans to turn it into yet another party room for himself. Meanwhile, the White House is also haunted by the ghost of Melania Trump and FCC chairman Brendan Carr. With all the controversy from the previous political season, it was clear that a Trump-baiting Halloween special episode would grab attention, and it did exactly that.
‘South Park’ Started a Trump-Satan Storyline and Got a Furious Response From the White House
The Season 27 premiere introduced the storyline of Trump being in an intimate relationship with Satan, even showing his nude body and mocking his legal settlement with Paramount Global. The episode made enough noise that the White House officially responded, calling South Park a “fourth-rate” show that was “hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.” Now that the creators have returned to the same storyline and both new episodes have drawn huge reactions, it looks like this Trump-Satan arc might become a regular part of the show.
South Park is available to stream on Paramount+.
