answer: The Boys is a superhero show on Amazon. The basic premise is what if superheroes were celebrities and acted like the worst celebrities out there. The current season is about the strongest hero(Homelander a parody of Superman and Captain America) courting white nationalists as they will tolerate and support all the awful things he does and applaud him for them. It draws a lot of parallels to Trump and his conspiracy theorist/white nationalists base
It's worth noting the show has always been capital b Blatant that Homelander is a parody of patriotism getting into bed with racist Christian fascists. Among his very first public appearances in the show is him flying across a giant cross while in the pose of Jesus on the cross. Later, he gets literally seduced by a character named after a white power message board. The show has never been subtle about this. The only new thing is that some of the people it was parodying seem to have figured it out.
Answer: The show is a dark satire, and heavily influenced by the current political climate, and Trump in particular. The main antagonist of the show, a “Supe” (short for super) named Homelander has descended into authoritarianism. Each season of the show digs in a bit harder. In the first few sessions there was some folks on the Right who missed the whole satire aspect and considered Homelander the hero, not realizing he was the villain and they were the butt of the jokes.
Recently there was an interview with the show runner who highlighted a lot of these points in no unclear terms. He also noted that he was planning to lean in even more on the political similarities with the rhetoric from Homelander.
I have only recently started watching the show and I cannot, for the life of me, understand how people missed Homelander being a villain. It's in the first episode! He's basically "facsim will come to America wrapped in a flag" personified! How did anyone miss this????
Considering even the main show sub says the new season is crap, I'm presuming these redditors don't watch the show and parrot twitter talking points, makes sense considering how astroturfed /r/outoftheloop is.
The whole thread has zero criticism of the show writing is all THE FASCISTS AND MAGANAZIS TROLLS HATE IT!!!
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Trump is living rent free in the heads of capeshit writers and he hasnt been president in four years. Heck the show isnt even satirizing the bad shit trump did with covid, only the vague idea that white nationalists at any moment could rise up and kill people they just havent done
Like people are protesting the current president for doing a genocide and the show is thinking how best they can defeat drumpth by creating another cheeto hitler parody
“Dark satire” pfffft the show resets to status quo literally every time with its passe-in-the-2000s satire of DAE christian rightoids are dangerous!?
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A reminder that modern politics is r-slurred and there's no genocide in Gaza, but there should be.
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everyone in the ME has to go, BIPOC
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The Boys is a tv show made by people still living in 2004 who try to make fun of a different type of people still living in 2004.
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