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Ethan Shanfeld SPOILER ALERT: This piece contains spoilers for the series finale of “Search Party.”“Search Party” began with a simple premise: When a former college classmate goes missing, Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) and her cohort of Brooklyn twenty-somethings embark on a mission to find her. Five seasons later, Dory — now a spiritual guru and cult leader — hides in an underground bunker as zombies ravage the streets of New York City.While “Search Party” has never shied away from bold ideas — the HBO Max show killed off its protagonist-turned-antihero at the end of last season, only for Dory to reawaken 37 seconds later — Season 5 sunk its teeth into completely new territory: Dory escapes a psychiatric facility and teams up with billionaire tech mogul Tunnel Quinn (Jeff Goldblum) to produce “enlightenment pills,” which quickly turn the population into flesh-eating monsters.

In the previous two seasons of HBO Max’s “Search Party,” it’s felt as if Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) has existed within a different genre inside the show. The show’s protagonist has found herself experiencing a courtroom drama as well a “Misery”-like kidnapping thriller as an outgrowth of her initial folly in tracking down a missing acquaintance.

Dory Sief (Alia Shawkat) has been through a lot in five seasons. She deserves a major final act more than most characters.

The Season 3 finale of HBO Max’s Alia Shawkat-fronted dramedy Search Party came with a major sigh of relief and the unexpected kidnapping that brings it all full circle for Dory Sief.

What to make of Dory Sief? Played by Alia Shawkat on the critical darling “Search Party,” Dory is an average NYC young woman who went from an inquisitive bystander in the first season to being accused of murder in the third, launching on HBO Max on June 25. Shawkat, who considers the role the best of her career, has done nuanced work in conveying the arc of a woman thrust into a fascinating nightmare.