Since so many of you wanted to weigh in on The Boys
I don't know if I should actually link cybersmith
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culture crave posts:
'The Boys' S5 finale is at 6.7 on IMDb
The final two episodes are the lowest-rated in the show's history
Cybersmith responds:
The writers really destroyed their own art out of a pig-headed refusal to look beyond their own political biases.
Homelander should have killed the nonbelievers and ushered in Heaven on Earth.
THAT would have made the show an all-time great.
Now? It'll just be remembered as a disappointment.
is it? they fought against supes not capitalism, i feel like you could easily take it as a 'the rich continue to be shitty because that wasnt addressed by the boys' way. also yk, butcher was in with the CIA, of course theyre not getting rid of capitalism
MM spends the early parts of the series dressed in black panther/Malcolm x/black power fist labelled clothing and making both allusions to systemic oppression in conversation (Including outright calling Mallory out on the crack epidemic), and having his backstory be one rooted in capitalist exploitation and systemic discrimination is the thing. They just don't do anything with it beyond have him not like Stan Edgar.
But also I don't think we need to get too much into media analysis to have a little laugh about a guy thinking the show should have ended with a victorious Homelander and the only reason they didn't do that was because of woke.
Also in the literal last episode they call billionaires the "ruling class" explicitly, but uh I guess they can just keep being the ruling class as long as Homelander is dead.
https://www.okayplayer.com/laz-alonso-explains-why-mothers-milk-wears-hip-hop-tees-in-the-boys/526833
I wouldn't put too much into the shirts. Apparently, it was very much a mix of aesthetics, actor preference, easter egg vibes. The shirts will often reference something happening in the ep.
spoiler
For example the ep when the president was being hunted, MM wore a Dead Prez shirt.The had him wearing black panther breakfast shirts and pictures of Obama in his apartment, it was all lib caricature of what they think a black revolutionary is. They drained that well pretty quick and didn't know what to do after. Heaven forbid they read a book.
I'll have to go back and check but I could've sworn he took down the Obama picture at the end of season 3 to symbolize his abandoning working within the system
Not that it matters, season 4 went turbo lib after that
Oh, I don't remember that. You sure he wasn't packing it to take with him? Lol.
They fought against one supe specifically. All other shitty supes including the psychopath psychics are still around and under the command of Vought.