I have a free Amazon prime account and I sift through mounds of shit to watch old westerns and whatnot. I just opened the home page and I see they're advertising a new episode of 'The Boys' coming this Thursday.
What do they show to entice viewers to watch it? Two women. A redhead and a dyke looking black chick with braids.
Fucking lol not even a show that's explicity called 'The Boys' is immune. I know this isn't surprising in the slightest and just because a show is called the boys doesn't mean it's only dudes. But still I got a good chuckle when I saw it.
I watched season one and thought it was okay considering how low my expectations were. Then I heard about season two and never even gave it a chance.
Wasn't it obvious that The Boys was always cultural propaganda? I mean homelander is literally evil superman. It's difficult to make it more obvious than that.
It always was meant to be, but it failed to accomplish its task hard in its first season.
Which is why they've been trying to triple down on everything as hard as possible to push their agenda, yet people still keep liking Homelander and the Soldier one more than the clear "good guys." Including when they do offensive or evil things that are supposed to make them look bad.
Its a real poster child for misunderstanding your audience and writing so bad you end up a parody of yourself instead of them.
I didn't watch the show; did they do the bit where Homelander buggers Soldier Boy every year at Herogasm because Soldier Boy thinks it'll get him into the Seven if he does a good enough job, but it never does?
No, they changed SB a bit from what I heard they did in the comics.
That said in the series Solider Boy really isn't a bad guy. He's basically just your every-guy from 1980 plus he does a shit ton of drugs which don't do shit for him anyway because he's basically immune to everything.
They tried to make.him into some "oh my gerd he's worse than the guy who literally kills hundreds of innocent people because he says things that are possibly racially insensitive"