And I don’t think you’re wrong for saying that - satire is so tough to absolutely nail, for sure. That’s why it’s sort of died out from more mainstream media. I guess, to me, it’s more the point that I think they managed to do a good job in satirizing corporate culture and hero worship while telling a cohesive,…

The Boys is one of the most interesting series in a very long time, and we haven’t exactly been starving. It seems that the writers on this blog just enjoy poo pooing great things for the sake of it.

Don’t they spend the first 2 episode trying to get Hughie to sign an NDA and take $45,000, and they flat out state Vought spends a lot to cover up the bad signs?

“Homelander is insultingly unconvincing as the clean-cut Superman/Captain America type he’s clearly supposed to evoke.” Wrong. Anthony Starr is killing it in this role. What the public sees and what we (the viewer) sees are two different things.

I got more of an OJ Simpson vibe than Trump. Oh here’s this handsome, charismatic hero that we’ve all grown up with. He says the right thing in front of a camera, he’s made us smile and laugh in commercials and movies, but who really knows what lies behind the curtain. I thoroughly enjoyed Starr’s performance.  

I think that everyone is misunderstanding that (the show at least) is more of a celebrity-culture satire than a superhero satire. That misunderstanding is why the critics are hammering this already-great series.

The president of the United States is Donald Trump. Homelander is 100% believable. We all need to adjust to reality.

I think the negatives this show has gotten has stemmed from, what I think, is a fundamental misunderstanding of the satirical target. It’s not superheroes, that’s just the framework. It’s the whole corporate-mandated celebrity personality factory. It’s not, as others have said, “what if superheroes were assholes”,…

I have the entire series in the graphic novel collections and enjoyed it a lot, but more as a fun diversion than as anything thought-provoking. The TV version, however, has impressed me with every episode. I was especially impressed with how they portrayed the Christian “Believe” festival. As someone who has been to…

Agreed on The Deep & Translucent. They also mentioned in an aside how Translucent wasn’t all that close to the others because he spent a lot of time with his son. Something that came up once and never again - mostly to continue to complicate Hugh’s black and white worldview that Butcher was trying to impose.

And yeah,…

I have yet to met someone IRL that does not like this show. But of course the AV club is going to double down on their disdain for it because they can't be wrong.

is full satire even an aim at all in the show? Like, the comics from the first page or so, show A-Train being an asshole in the middle of stopping a super-criminal, not only that, he brags about his heroics with robin’s obliterated corpse and a wailing Hughie in frame. Its a clear satiric juxtapostion.

I agree that the loses a bit of the satirical edge re: superhero tropes in the transition. But I think that the focus on the corporate stuff works better for a TV/live-action adaptation, and that it’s done better here than in the book. The way I see it: The Boys (TV) is working for me better as a satire of superhero…

Honestly The Deep would have been a much better if he wasn’t the one who sexually assaulted Starlight. Hell, the sexual assault didn't need to be in the show in the first place.

I would be fine with most of the negative response if the show weren’t good - in fact, quite a lot better than the source material. I actually deeply cared about characters and plot lines (especially this bizarre bond that draws each member of the Boys together). On a number of occasions, I was also really pleasantly s…

....death of Robin. It resonated, Kang swears!

6 episodes in and Kang is enjoying the shit out of this show. Having read the first trade of the comics and not being much of an Ennis fan, it’s surprisingly delightful to see such a stellar cast handle the material. And the writing and directing plays the world mostly straight. The shocking moments are treated…

It’s better than I thought it would be. The changes they’ve made to the source material—centering Starlight early, Elisabeth Shue, giving Hughie a sales background—they all work to enhance the story. I’ve read through the original series and thought it was fine, if juvenile—and nowhere near the best Ennis has done. He…

I actually think that, in 2019, the message that you can’t count on the famous, rich and/or powerful to save you from anything is a good one.

Guess what I’m not going to Google just in case it exists?