Party Down S02e02 Bd25 [top] Review

The gender-reveal-adjacent moment arrives. The influencer couple, Piper and Pax, release a dozen drones carrying a banner. It reads: The crowd cheers. The dog in the cape bites a cater-waiter.

The Party Down catering van cruises through the manicured hills of Calabasas. Ron (Ken Marino) is at the wheel, delivering a heartfelt, off-key monologue.

You asked me once what the point of The Old Man and the Sea was. I told you it’s about grace under pressure. This? This is just pressure. You’re not a disruptor. You’re a kid who never learned that losing is part of it.

(to himself) Four hundred thousand dollars.