I’m sorry but this was a mess. A convoluted mess.

Yeah I felt like half the little plotlines in this episode were just casually thrown in there without much of a care, felt a bit convoluted. 

Abrams is one of several producers, but he was not the showrunner or primary creative voice.

WHY ARE THEY ALWAYS LEAVING DIANA ALONE!

“Montrose still killed Yahima, but we’ll ignore that.”

This show has some really powerful individual moments, but it never coheres as a whole. Like, apparently this was all building up to Atticus sacrificing himself? That really does not feel like a natural culmination of what came before. The final scene is a confrontation between Dee and Christina, who barely interacted…

Well that was messy. At several points I kept thinking, where are we, why are we doing this and why are we going there? What was the deal with the baptism? Spiritual faith is pretty much sidelined in Lovecraft Country. Oh look Ji-Ah. Stick around gal, we may need to use your snake eyes to jumper cable the counter…

I used to love this show until they had the gall to besmirch the good name of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with that heel-turn by a completely fictional character in a warped version of our own reality but then I should have expected such blatant right-wing propaganda from a show produced by two notorious Trumpists. I was…

The beatdown scene put it into “B” territory for me.

Ellsworth from Deadwood 

Easy B+, thanks for playing. 

Really?? Look I’m not going to get caught up in recency bias because I just got done watching the episode but The Boys is nothing if not about subversion of tropes and expectations. If the reveal of Congress woman Neuman is meant to be anything it’s that there are bad actors appropriating all sides. How is that not a…

I really do not see the writers as creating a false equivalency b/w Nazism and liberalism for a number of reason. One, we actually don’t know much about Neuman’s politics outside of her wanting to reign in Vought and supes in general. I guess you could say wanting to reign in a big corporation means she’s liberal, but…

Annie does address going back to vought she tells Hughie something along the lines of you can’t jump ship and let the assholes take the rudder.

So why then panic and freak out about the reveal of her true origin?

Honestly I thought they were going pretty light on the Neuman = AOC thing throughout the season. Like, obviously I saw it, but it wasn’t as heavy handed as I’ve seen elsewhere. And since they gave her a heel turn that makes sense.

It honestly doesn’t bother me.

Her being an ersatz AOC was a mislead that even got me. I thought she simply was a new character with a nod to the comics Neuman. That she’s turning out to be the Neuman of this adaptation is honestly kind of refreshing.

Strange review, to be quite honest. I don’t think having a fictional congresswoman who looks like AOC makes it so that the show needs to make her a 1:1 summary of AOC herself. Neuman wants the american government to have more control over supes/weapons. If you ask AOC, I don’t think she advocates for the US to have…

Barry killing Chris hasn’t come up that much since, but man, that was brutal. It should be at least impactful on his psyche as Moss.

Hader is a strangely unique talent. I know no other actor who can go from rage to comedy in a split second and be completely believable in each instance.