Dead End: Paranormal Park

In the shadowy corners of Phoenix Parks’ rundown haunted house attraction, trans teen Barney snags a summer gig as a security guard alongside her sharp-tongued bestie Norma, only for their dead-end shift to spiral into a full-blown supernatural showdown when Barney’s foul-mouthed pug Pugsley accidentally summons a demon queen hell-bent on apocalypse. Teaming up with the ancient, sassy demon Courtney, who’s now stuck possessing the pup, this ragtag crew dodges killer mascots, dodgy bosses, and hellish hordes while Barney grapples with her gender journey and the gang races to seal the portal before the world checks out for good.

Dead End: Paranormal Park Review (S1: E1)

Malignant malevolence in pastels, on its surface, Dead End: Paranormal Park is a by-the-numbers attempt to recreate the zany supernatural fun of Scooby Doo and the silly macabre fantasy of The Ghost and Molly McGee or Gravity Falls. However, at its heart, it is propaganda meant to ease your children into swallowing trans ideology and softening them to the dangers of satanic evils.

                   

Mediocre and derivative animation marks a wholly unoriginal program that has been done better and more tastefully by dozens of others for decades. Dead End: Paranormal Park has nothing new to say that’s worth hearing.

Plagued by second-tier vocal performances that never fully grasp the hyper reality of animation, and a plot straight out of an episode of 1985’s The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, only meant to sustain an entire ten-episode season, Netflix once again proves that its “original” programming isn’t worth the monthly fee.

PARENTAL NOTES

TV-Y7

• This rating indicates that a program is considered safe and/or is specifically marketed for children as young as seven years of age. You know, first and second graders.

Horror Elements

• In the opening minutes of just this episode, a woman wearing a plunging neckline that displays her deep cleavage runs in a panic through a spooky house as crescendoing horror music and the “camera” give the impression that she is being chased and that her life is in danger.
  • Moments later, she is attacked by a demonic doppleganger.
• There are numerous Missing Persons posters fluttering in the wind.
• At least three-fourths of the episode is filled with demons and demonic imagery.
  • including a possession precipitated by an arcane ritual
• The demons are trying to murder two children throughout much of the episode.

Piss Poor

• There’s a repeated joke that the main character’s pug urinates at inappropriate times in inconvenient locations, and we are treated to watching him urinate in one scene.

WOKE REPORT

Where Do I Pee?

• The main character is a mentally ill biological female (voiced by a male) minor who mistakenly believes herself to be a boy named Barney.
  • She wants to get a job and leave home because she needs to get away from her mom, dad, and grandmother, who all make her feel bad for not fully committing to her delusion.
    • By the end of the episode, she does leave home, and it seems as though her parents must be just fine with that.
• The busty blonde mentioned in the Parental Notes section is voiced by a drag queen (i.e. a man).

What’s On The Other Side?

• Queer-coding is everywhere.
  • Multiple (like a lot of) signs feature rainbows or rainbow-colored designs.
    • Help wanted poster
    • In and on a bus
    • Road sign
    • Sign for Phoenix
    • An amusement park’s midway
    • Etc. (Not counting credits and intro, it’s like 22 minutes of show)

Vegans

• The mentally ill teen’s mom tells her that she’s made cheeseless mac and cheese. Cause, you know… animals and stuff.

Parents Just Don’t Understand

• While we’ve heard that the tranny’s Dad is someone worthy of escaping, her mom is shown as weak and wishy-washy. Meanwhile, her diverse ostensibly female friend’s mom is a doofus best ignored by her superior daughter. I guess that it’s progress that studios aren’t just trying to portray dads as worthless.

Judge Not

• The Bible/God wants all of us to make good judgments. It’s why he gave us the intrinsic ability to do so. However, after a horned demon has tried to murder her and her companion, helped to demonically possess her dog, and invited the King of the Demons to feast on her soul, the mentally-ill teen tells her friend that she tries not to judge people on looks. This is in reference to said demon now inviting the two humans to work for her.
  • Judge not, lest ye be judged is among the Left’s favorite bastardisations of the Bible, and it’s one that they’ve effectively wielded in their war on sanity and common sense.

Evil Ain’t That Bad

• The show tries to make satanic imagery into a cute joke.