Part of its appeal is that no person or topic is off-limits. The writers frequently pull inspiration straight from the news cycle, turning current events into exaggerated, often outrageous storylines.
The most recent episode, which focused on the ongoing ICE raids, has stirred up plenty of conversation online and off.
This wild depiction draws from two actual points in Noem’s public life: her autobiography, where she described shooting a dog in anger and seemed to think it reflected positively on her, and her highly publicized “MAGA makeover.”.
In the final moments, she’s shown walking into a pet store with a rifle, and the sounds of multiple gunshots are heard.
Noem has clearly seen the episode, and it’s safe to say she’s not amused by it.
“It’s so lazy, it constantly makes fun of women for how they look. Only the liberals and the extremists do that.” Noem told the network during a call-in segment.
“If they wanted to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t. They just pick something petty like that.”
The episode also targeted conservative figure Charlie Kirk and included a strange twist involving Dora the Explorer being trafficked to “Mar-a-Lago Island”.
The storyline kicks off with school counselor Mr. Mackey losing his job, which leads him to join the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. His first mission? Participating in a raid on the set of Dora the Explorer.
Mackey’s dramatic and overblown “success” during the raid earns him a “reward” — a trip to Mar-a-Lago.
In another surreal moment, Dora is reimagined as a “masseuse” at the resort, caught in a disturbing scenario before managing to make her escape.
For anyone curious enough to see how it all plays out, the episode is streaming now on Paramount+.
