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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Even on the commentary scale the comic uses superheroes to represent the MIC, rampant consumerism, corporate control, and everything else wrong with America while the show makes the actual capes themselves alt right trump supporters. Basically to all the super smart media leftists in the comic the problem is the system the supes represent "its all bad product" while the show is narrowly about how the issue is just the boogeyman of the day and will age like milk. !nonchuds actual left wing media analysis
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We will always be at war with rightoids though
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The left wants to be both the respected establishment experts and the edgy anti-establishment radicals, so their fiction is schizophrenic.
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The show is also obsessed with outdoing itself on the grossness scale episode after episode which is just blatant pandering to the midwit demographic.
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Having Homelander being the most dangerous cape is an implicit entendre about how dangerous and powerful the systematic white supremasicim America is thrall to.
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Homelander is kinda a loser in the comics he basically has no imagination and struggles squaring his super human status with his boring human desires (money, s*x drugs) .
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Ennis is a hack, but having a normal dude square off with not-superman and having the guy with super senses know with utter certainty that there is 0 fear in that man's body is hard as frick. I don't think real superman ever did this
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Its based off an archetypal superman scene where superman floats outside lexs high rise office lex lets him and and just yanks his chain "oh wow thanks superman for taking down that rouge lex corp employee who stole our supersuit
we take security very seriously at lex corp so we cant thank enough for plugging that little leak" while superman seethes
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The Boys is a leftist hot take on The Managerial Revolution by James Burnham
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