Deadline: Amazon Changes Title to 'The Boys' Season Finale & Adds Trigger Warning After Trump Shooting [previously titled 'Assassination Run'] - Kotaku In Action 2

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– ArchRespawnsAgain 14 points 161 days ago +14 / -0

Amazon Prime Video released a statement making clear that any similarities between the storyline and events in Pennsylvania were coincidental.

Kripke has explicitly and repeatedly said that the show is meant to draw parallels to the real world.

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– RoulerBleu 11 points 161 days ago +11 / -0

What an odd thing to say. /s

( The authors had the subtlety of a sledgehammer to the face with their Orange Man Bad, White People Bad almost 1:1 messages. )

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– current_horror 11 points 161 days ago +11 / -0

I watched a few clips out of curiosity. The Boys is easily the least subtle anti-conservative entertainment propaganda I’ve ever seen.

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– AlfredicEnglishRules 3 points 161 days ago +3 / -0

Wait, Kripke? Like the really good producer Kripke? Dangit.

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– FrozeInFear [S] 7 points 161 days ago +7 / -0

Talk about awkward timing.

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– NeoGecko 1 point 161 days ago +1 / -0

That disclaimer was the funniest part of this entire season.

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