Overview

• The season’s second episode drew 6.2 million viewers across cable and streaming in its first three days, marking its highest audience since 2018 and a 15.61 percent Nielsen share.
• The installment’s depiction of President Trump as Satan’s lover and references to Jeffrey Epstein records prompted White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers to call the series “not relevant.”
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem labeled the show “mean” and “lazy” on The Glenn Beck Program despite not having watched the episode.
• Paramount’s agreement to acquire South Park’s catalogue and stream new episodes underscores the series’ growing commercial leverage.
• By lampooning ICE raids, migrant enforcement and senior administration figures, the show has reignited debate over the boundaries of political satire on television.