There's not much I want to say about Season 4 of "The Boys," so this will be a one-paragraph review. After doing my best to defend the series from accusations of wokeness and a leftie agenda by noting how balanced the series could be in its lampooning of all sides, I was disappointed by Season 4's full-on descent into wokeness. While the show's blood and gore and outlandish situations remain, creator Eric Kripke's anti-Trump, anti-right/conservative political agenda—about which he's never been shy, but which he's moderated up to now—is very much on display. Conservative Christians are all basically dishonest Jesus freaks, and conservatives in general are conspiracy-loving retards. The only smart, moral people are lefties. Homelander, with his scary power and his Aryan good looks, is the reification of all that Eric Kripke finds hateful in America. So while I enjoyed the over-the-top bloodshed, the show's deeper agenda sucked all the fun out of the proceedings. Season 5, maybe the final season, will release in 2026. I might watch it out of a sense of completism, or I might not. Meanwhile, I'm keenly interested in reading the comics version of The Boys to see whether its agenda and the Amazon show's agenda are in line. At a guess: probably not.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
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