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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I would rather smash my own balls with a meat tenderizer than read about the intersection of capeshit and politics
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I started watching The Boys but was turned off by how little effort they had given this „satire“
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Capeshit fans will watch absolutely anything, why bother trying
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You gotta admit, it's a good move to combine cape shit with orange man bad.
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oh my God another show where the message is drumpf bad!!!! Revolutionary!
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I had to stop watching when they brought in a character who was a literal, card carrying Nazi to do a heckin racism by very graphically popping a man's skull. To really drive the point home she calls him a 'yellow bastard' while doing it. Between the revelry in the ultra violence and the 'pooping frickwaffle' level of dialog, the pearl clutching over their personification of evil potentially violating their shibboleths was just too embarrassing to watch
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They didn't even have the balls to make her say "chinx", they had to go with "yellow".
Both her and the asian foid could get it tho
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Can i vote for the party they imagine rightoids to be?
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If only
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