Ep 7 33:30
Shout out to the boys subreddit, pointed it out and every pewdiepie fanboy who tried defending him got dunked on
Weirdly I'm seeing people defend it as "He's the most popular youtuber, is nba 2k a nazi game too?" as if having the outright Nazi supervillain reference known anti-semite and inspiration for the Christchurch shooter wasn't a direct clear-as-day joke.
Garth Ennis is the most "XXXTREME" comics writer. Just constantly writing fucked up shit and looking at you asking if you're shocked yet.
Ah, yes. The guy who brought us Preacher, a comic so edgy that it wrapped around on itself and ended up banal.
I've heard theyre just insane over the top gore & violence without anything else going on, but I haven't read them so who can say
this is why I haven't touched teh series. It just looks terrifying and gorey and I don't need that right now.
It's not good or even Garth Ennis best work. I didn't watch the show for quite a while because I was like oh, great, they adapted that comic series that sucks.
I wouldn't say there isn't anything else going on, even as someone who didn't really like the shock jock bullshit, there's a pretty on point critique of capitalist democracy under all the filth
Edit: Had some thought about it, and yeah, like 'The Boys' are a CIA-adjacent clandestine group specifically targeting this corp and their superhero shtick, just in case one goes rogue and threatens the government right, but then
old comics spoilers
turns out one of The Boys is the one to go rogue, having stood a bit too close to the fire too long and deciding he wants to put it out for good, genocide style. There's not nuthin to the narrative, it's just covered in this grotesque parody of a real life corporation and the violence they inflict on society
shit i just realized they were doing weekly releases like regular TV. i thought it was a 6 episode season. i just finished 1-6 yesterday and thought it was a bit of an odd ending. like ok, stormfront being a full-on nazi and not just a casual racist was kind of a cliffhanger, i guess?
lmao i just started it and a fake alex jones on the dude's alarm radio
It rules. I just watched the episode before the one OP is talking about. It ended with one of the super heroes revealing they are a nazi to the captain america stand-in character. Then "Thank you for being a friend" plays and they kiss. I fucking died laughing.
Season one is excellent. Season 2 is still going, verdict is out, but so far it's not quite at the same level as season 1.
The 'good guys' are current and ex FBI, so there's still propaganda and reality disconnect for a show that is supposed to be representative of the current moment but with superheroes.
I thought episode 6 was so fucked up when they said malala yousafzai said something about the deep being charming.
The fuck was that about
I fucking love this show. It's all the irony I needed. It's still a bezos production ofc, so piracy is in order.
