Search Party could easily have been just another comedy about feckless, self-involved millennials Girls revisited. But, instead, the first season of TBS's witty and beguiling series took us down a dark, twisting rabbit hole, delving into the mystery of a missing woman while also, yeah, making fun of twenty-something vanity and, y'know, brunch.

(Still brunch! After all these years. Carrie Bradshaw should be so proud of the world she's built.)

Arrested Development's Alia Shawkat, both sweet and gloomy, plays an aimless New Yorker who finds purpose in her life trying to track down a college acquaintance who has disappeared. She drags her monstrously, hilariously self-involved friends—the terrific Meredith Hagner and alt-queer-comedy "It boy" John Early into her mad spiral, along with boyfriends past and present, played with boho appeal by Brandon Micheal Hall and John Reynolds. The pointed, hyper-observant jokes keep coming, even as the show heads toward a startlingly grim place.

The second season, premiering this month, has a big season-finale cliff-hanger to build off of, which is a tricky task. But this clever series—from creators Sarah-Violet Bliss, Charles Rogers, and Michael Showalter (Wet Hot American Summer, Big Sick) should pull it off with refreshingly youthful alacrity.

Search Party is an invigorating and oddly prophetic satire of young people tragically unaware that they're tilting toward the abyss. We should all pay attention as we, well, pretty much do the same.