Ultimately it’s disappointing that Trey Parker and Matt Stone—two of the best satirists around—should have chosen such soft religious targets: missionaries from Utah. The finale to season 14 of South Park (the censured episode about the propriety of depicting Mohammed in a bear costume) was gutsier by far. By comparison, poking fun at clueless Mormon teenagers is a cop-out. It’s a waste of theatrical talent.
Jared Farmer
Jared Farmer is the author of On Zion’s Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape (Harvard, 2008). He teaches history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
