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The Boys (Amazon)
This looks great and I love Karl Urban in everything he shows up in .
[Red Band Trailer] fuck superheroes. Why? Because when people score limitless power, they become a**holes. Drunk with power and fame. That’s where The Boys come in. from u/TheBoysTV |
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THE MESSAGE!!! is getting to be more and more of a glaring point in this show... Police hate the black community... it is racist to patrol the black neighborhoods... yada yada yada
I also see that piece of shit Seth Rogan showed up in this episode as well. God... I want this show to be better than that... I love the general plot but here we go with this stupid ****ing bullshit.
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That said, yeah it was a wet fart of a comedic scene.
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I am shocked that a tv series based on a comic book that was a commentary about the shittiness of the bush administration and the war on terror could have anything that could be interpreted as commentary about the shittiness of radical evangelical alt right neonazis and their golden calf, president twittler. Inconceivable!
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And while I enjoy the show overall, the fit and finish is pretty ham-handed. They'll have someone making a point about one issue, and then the chyron, or a reaction soundbite, references a completely unrelated buzzword. For instance in the last episode, they replayed some of Homelander's speech from the previous episode about how he's tired of pretending he isn't superior to the rest of mankind, and the banner at the bottom of the broadcast said something about 'Homelander complains about cancel culture.' That's a case of not respecting the intricacy of the source narrative and just wanting to insert buzzword snark. Like I say, I mostly enjoy the show, . . . but the satire 'updating' is pretty amateurish.
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This show is woke garbage that won't be relevant 5 years from now.
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Is it? Or is it consistent with the source material? The comics were a satirical reflection of how shitty super power human beings would actually be, paralleling the challenges ordinary folks face with power, self-delusion, greed, and loss of inhibitions, while also exploring the dangers of unchecked, unmitigated corporate self-interest and manipulation. It is a vehicle intended to shine a reductio ad absurdum light on our American society and make people think about things that might flit by unnoticed in your day-to-day grind. If it makes you uncomfortable, it is functioning as intended.
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On one hand, a teensy bit clever and funny, . . . on the other incredibly ham-handed, desperate and shoehorned.
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Here's another, from previous season. . .
So I get he's satirizing Dubya's bravado, but if you accept the implications of the satire as written, given that Homelander explicitly and directly downed the airliner himself . . . then you've signed onto more crazy than any of the 9/11 was an inside job folks. . . . But you do you folks.
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Here's a little closed captioner's verbiage choice that you won't soon forget. . . .
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Episode 6 was pretty twisted. Definitely looking forward to the last two episodes.
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That episode was amazing. Might be the best of the entire series so far.
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