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.
I watched the show because of Jensen Ackles, since I liked him in Supernatural and he just oozes charisma despite the SB character being genuinely evil.
But if we're being honest the show is really bad. Season 1 is the best of the worst but leaning into the caricature of Trump as the show went on definitely killed the momentum and satire of the show.
The show and its spinoff is a very vulgar, cruel, obscene, program. SA is played for laughs in Season 4, and generally has terrible pacing and storytelling. The deaths in The Boys are all very cruel and sadistic, played for shock value, but it is just cruel and barbaric.
Anthony Starr was incredible as Homelander. He transcended the script's prescription for his character and turned Homelander into a menacing figure, a deeply disturbed psycopath that started unraveling and escalating his menace throughout the series.
The liberal politics and resolution of The Boys is unsurprising. Liberals are only becoming critical of US Power when the Republican is in power, never questioning - out of captive fear of abandonment to the Republicans - the Democratic party and its inefficacy in combatting the GOP. Largely out of complicity themselves, but there are parts of indifference towards the vulnerable and fear of escalation (read: loss of privilege) without the Democrats.
Andor's revolutionary expression is a fluke in these stories on streaming platforms that are based in politics.
Therefore its unsurprising for The Boys' ending. Even in the comics the message was to embrace the learned helplessness and trust that the State and vigilantism (human resistance) will prevail. Nothing preventative to stop these entities, just reactive.
And that's what superheroes are. Reactionary to crises. They don't solve problems that cause problems, they defend status quo that produces them.