Let Go, Let Gov [SEP] series
Let Go, Let Gov
"Let Go, Let Gov" is the first episode in the seventeenth season of the American animated television series "South Park". The 238th episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on September 25, 2013. The episode's story satirizes the 2013 mass surveillance disclosures, and casts Eric Cartman in an Edward Snowden-like role, in which he infiltrates the NSA in protest of the agency's surveillance of American citizens.
Plot.
Let Go, Let Gov' featured the best jokes from this storyline" and that "as the arc progressed, the episode veered more and more into preachy territory." Marcus Gilmer of "The A.V. Club" gave "Let Go, Let Gov" a C−, saying that "instead of reaching for some sort of sharp satire, there's a settling for an easy, cheap joke." He adds that the central story-line about the NSA "wanders a bit with stale riffs and a lackadaisical payoff"