South Park dropped a special event titled South Park: Post COVID, and here’s how you can watch it online for free. Animated shows for adults are quite common and popular now in big part thanks to streaming platforms, but all these have a lot to thank South Park for. Created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park debuted on Comedy Central in 1997 and has since become one of the most popular animated shows (and a visually peculiar one thanks to its cutout animation style) but also one of the most controversial ones, though that hasn’t stopped Parker and Stone from continuing addressing all types of topics through their young but very outspoken characters.
South Park follows four kids – Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick – and their many, mostly disastrous, adventures in and around the titular Colorado town. South Park has become well-known for its sexual content, graphic depictions of violence, profanity, surreal humor, and for addressing topics that almost always end up being quite controversial. The team behind South Park never misses the chance to make fun or criticize the biggest political and social issues, no matter how serious or sensitive these topics might be, and of course, the coronavirus pandemic was going to be addressed in the show at some point.
South Park has already addressed the coronavirus pandemic in two special episodes – one appropriately titled “The Pandemic Special”, in which the kids return to school amidst the pandemic but nothing seems normal as before, and “South ParQ Vaccination Special”, where the citizens of South Park were clamoring for the COVID-19 vaccine. Naturally, South Park still has a lot to say about the pandemic and how it has and will continue to affect the world, and so it brought another special, titled South Park: Post Covid, which unlike the aforementioned specials and the rest of the show’s episodes, won’t air on Comedy Central, and is instead available to stream on Paramount+.
Although Paramount+, like most streaming platforms out there, requires a subscription to enjoy all the content it has to offer, there is one way in which South Park fans without a subscription can watch the Post Covid special. Paramount+ offers a month-long free trial, so fans can sign up on the platform and watch South Park: Post COVID for free (and enjoy other content as well for a whole month). Of course, if you’re no longer interested in what Paramount+ has to offer, you will have to cancel before the trial is over so you won’t get charged with a monthly fee. It’s a good, free, and safe option to watch what happens with Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny now as adults, as the special shows “what happened to the children who lived through the pandemic”.
Paramount+ will be the home to future movies and specials from South Park even if it isn’t the home to all the show’s episodes, so fans of the series may want to consider a subscription to the platform in order to enjoy the upcoming South Park content – but if you only want to watch the Post Covid special, the one-month trial is the best option.