Is it just me or are they taking a leftist route by portraying tyrannical government bodies, especially the US government, have to manufacture reasons to put supes in the army? And then the most recent episode, with the Nazi reveal, and white supremacist statement by one of the characters... idk
When i watch this season, i constantly think it's full of leftist jabs as well.
I was reluctant at first, as i found ep 2 and 3 a bit lacking whenever they switched to the Boys´ arc. They all felt underwritten at that point, but they immediately fixed that in the next episodes. Really love how this season has picked up steam since then. Also, their dunks on liberal tokenism are not only spot-on, i find them to be fucking hillarious. They're so good at deliberate cringe, and it's done in a way that really exposes what's wrong with the liberal approach towards IdPol, without turning white liberal feminism into a strawman used to dunk on all forms of emancipatory politics. It's refreshingly different from the usual southparkish enlightened centrism shit.
Also, the chemistry between Homelander and Stormfront is amazing. That goes for their acting, how they're written and how perfectly the relationship between them allegorizes how
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the GOP falls in love with fascism. That scene where Homelander casually kills a criminal to impress her? It's scary how well that works as a metaphor.
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Yeah, they were reciting a lot of typical tough on crime lines in that scene. It's exactly what a chud would tell you in the comment section under a news article about a crime investigation, and i think it was absolutely on purpose to have
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talk like that. I generally get the impression that the script was written very recently and picks up on a lot of things going on rn. For example, Stormfront being from Portland may be
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a reference to right wing militants in the Northwest.
There's also some moments where i think "oh, this is probably in reference to BLM" and so on. And Senator Neumann ist definitely an AOC stand-in, Homelander mentions her dance video and everything.