There’s something about an under-the-eye headshot that seems incredibly visceral. We’re so accustomed to the John Wick between-the-eyes style that the clerk’s death feels realistic in a way so many cinematic deaths just don’t.

I felt like Starlight should have had more of a shot against Black Noir.

This could only happen because Netflix removed the D&D episode that stopped Neil falling down the dark path.

The opening was chilling. You know where it’s going, but the pure mundanity of the execution (both of the sequence and the literal murder) was scary shit.

I’m contractually obligated to write that when referencing Garth Ennis’s work. In fact, they contacted me earlier and told me Garth Ennis would prefer it if my posts contained 75% more rape, whatever that means. 

A big company being ok working with Nazis who maintain a thin layer of plausible deniability... isn’t even something that needs an explanation. It’s just how big companies work now, in the real world.

Stupid kinja

Some commenters have voiced their confusion as to why a Black man would align himself with Nazi ideology, but I think The Boys has always been very clear about this: money over everything.

“Maybe once I would have cried over him, but now he’s just another person in our way,” she says of the man she accidentally kills when trying to rush the impaled Hughie to a hospital. In that moment, Annie, who asks Frenchie to dig Vought’s tracker out of her earlier in the episode

That’s just most of the alt right now. “Hipster chick who wants to murder minorities for the lulz!” is like the standard young female Neo-nazi archetype.

But that’s the point, her persona of “speaking truth to power” and rejecting the artificiality of Vought’s carefully managed public face is just as carefully crafted and just as false as Homelander’s, she’s just the one doing the crafting. Her whole, “no filter, I just say what’s on my mind” is as full of shit as…

Actually, I think it’s a pretty fair commentary on how prevalent feminist and antiracist rhetoric has become and how easy it is for people who don’t genuinely believe what they’re saying to say “the right things” to advance in their professions. As far as we know, the whole “casual contempt for authority and…

Stormfront’s a slightly less exaggerated Phyllis Schlafly.

There have been many female racists depicted in TV/movies, but I don’t think there have been too many in depth depictions of a female character that is a straight up white supremacist, which, given the current state of America, really should be explored. 

It looked strangely comfortable too.

In the group I watched this with, I was the only one who knew about the neo-Nazi connotations of the name so it’s not that obvious a nod. As a friend pointed out it’s also the title of a Billy Joel album.

Hughie has loved Billy Joel from the first episode, his final conversation with Robin was about Joel.

Yes, remaining inside the guts of a whale carcass completely shellshocked was perfectly absurd.

In the tradition of good storytelling, Hughie is -essentially - US. We identify with him because we experience so much of the insanity of The Boy’s world through his uninitiated eyes. At least we can be fairly certain that he’ll survive the series.

I think Hughie despite being largely frustrating was allowed a few moments of pure fuck up after yet more guts found themselves all over him for like what the 6th time. I think its a realistic reaction to all the trauma. How many times we watch shows and characters like Hughie who are essentially civilians never react…