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.
It amazes me that Amazon's two biggest shows could have appealed to so many more had they stuck closer to the source material and not offended so many in their sledgehammered-in woke garbage. And I still can't wrap my brain around J.R.R. Tolkien's family selling out.
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Any mention of the "Tolkien estate" makes me bristle.
DeleteI wonder what he would think of these distant relatives still milking off his deceased corpse so many generations later and allowing his reputation to be sullied by woke, revisionist nonsense.
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