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.
Did not see the last season, don't plan to either but from what I see they keep trying and failing. Homelander is a someone who is just enjoyable to see, when he appears you know someone is fucked. They even make him sympathetic, at least in my eyes.