[updated] — Sausage Party: Foodtopia S01 M4a

If the first three episodes of Foodtopia were about the (building the city of Foodtopia after the humans are wiped out), Episode 4—let’s call it “The Grinding”—is about the hangover of governance .

The comedy also finds its groove. The crassness is still there (a subplot involving a vibrator and a jar of pickles is exactly as juvenile as you expect), but it serves the metaphor. The writers understand that the true horror of consciousness isn't being eaten—it's . The Verdict Sausage Party: Foodtopia S01E04 is the series at its most confident. It realizes that the novelty of talking food has worn off, so it replaces spectacle with suspense. By ending on the return of a human, the episode pivots from a political allegory about anarcho-syndicalism to a thriller about dependency . sausage party: foodtopia s01 m4a

Streaming now on Amazon Prime. For fans of: The Boys (if it were about a hot dog), Rick and Morty (if it were slower), and Marxist theory (if it were funnier). If the first three episodes of Foodtopia were