Season 2's new antagonist has revealed herself as turbo Hitler, as expected, but it's really the subtext that is so pernicious.
Stormfront (yup...) complains about "the other races" overwhelming and destroying "us", an obvious strawman of anyone who dares question the overt and deliberate demographic reform enacted within majority-white countries by liberal Western governments over the last half century.
No other peoples would see their concerns over such treatment dismissed so casually as hate speech and bigotry. I can only assume as much, of course, because no non-white cultures are being systematically targeted in this fashion. Strange, right?
I tolerated the show to this point because it was reasonably subtle with it's messaging and even occasionally mocked the empty virtue signaling of corporations and media. Most of the human characters have become increasingly unlikeable, but the corrupt supers are genuinely interesting. This episode shattered all that. I'm out.
I quit at the end of season 1, as soon as it was revealed that Butcher's wife was still alive.
There's far too many liberties taken with the comic for me to mention, but I'm not surprised that people remain incapable of adapting decent comic series (cough cough, Preacher).
Just waiting for them to turn the Sandman adaptation into a bullshit wokefest.
Please, no-one touch Transmetropolitan.
That was just about the dropping point for me, too. I can handle them deviating from The Boys hitting themselves up with V to put themselves on an even playing field, but as soon as the show takes a left turn into new plot territory with a major hook like that, I check out.
Considering Seth Rogen is attached to both of them, and Preacher was shit, I can't say as I'm surprised that The Boys has gone straight down the tube, too.
Gaiman himself is working on the project. Just write it off, now, as he went full woke a long time ago. Go back and re-read the comics, and pretend like the adaptation never happened.
You'd think it would be a slam-dunk for them, they could make The Beast a Trump analogue, right? Nope, because that would make The Smiler the leftist analogue, and they're not going to let that happen. No left-wing producer in their proper mind is going to touch Transmet with a ten foot pole, because there's no way they can spin that and make it work without broadcasting the message that all politicians are corrupt assholes and none of them deserve to be in office.
On the last point, since when has maintaining any semblance of through-line stopped them from adapting a series? They'll have their Trump and make the other guy Turbo-Trump or something. Nothing will make sense, and every important idea will be destroyed, but they'll do it anyway.
No one currently in showbusiness cares about making a good product at all.
i thought thd first season of preacher was good especially the scenes with hitler but then it went to shit