I just wanted to hear the thoughts of some comrades. I feel like the whole show is a dagger pointed right at the heart of amerikkkan culture and capitalism.
I'm not the most savvy on catching all the themes or lib brain worms that find there way into media, but it speaks to my disdain for the culture. The cynical narcissism of the supes (and holy shit their sexual pathologies), the capitalizing on things from every angle, the military jingoism, the soulless use of humans for capital, the commentary on the rot at the heart of the beast, and the religious cults preying on people. It hits for me, and I hate it all at the same time.
Anyway, hope ya'll have a great Christmas or holiday, at least a break from the meat grinder.
Edit: Oh, and the fucking rainbow capitalism, it's pretty spot on.
They're probably thinking of S03E06 or S04E03. It definitely starts to suffer from "prestige TV" anti-spoilers pacing, where a lot of random subplot antics might be ongoing, but the main arc just stalls out for the first 6 episodes or so AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN THE PLOT MOVES (but not that much), etc., so all the showrunners have in the interim is gross-out gags. They painted themselves into a corner pretty early on and had to keep ratcheting up the ick factor to outdo themselves every other episode, so it gets into some deeply fucked up territory very, very quickly.
I thought it was fine. I came into it with low expectations, and found myself binge-watching all four seasons over a couple of weeks. Bottom line, it's self-aware capeshit that lampoons the fash and its own capitalist overlords to the extent that it's allowed (something something subsuming critiques of capital unto itself), and is about as crass as your average early 2000's Vince Vaughan or Tom Green summer gross-out flick (well, maybe on the same level as Van Wilder). The writers seem to be well aware of this because they skip breaking the fourth wall and start kicking down walls we didn't even know we had yet, e.g.:
Season 4 Spoilers, [CW: self-mutilation]
Sage's superpower includes the ability to survive massive brain injuries with no real repercussions because she regenerates brain tissue in a similar fashion to what we have seen with other supes' bodies, with the key difference that, for Sage, it's limited to only her brain. By the time she is part of The Seven, she is so fed up with her cohorts' juvenile hijinks that she, much like the viewer, frequently feels the need to shut her brain off for a few hours and just chill. We do it metaphorically as outside observers, but she has to repeatedly perform frontal lobotomies on herself just to tolerate being around the rest of her team. Antics ensue, POWER DYNAMICS, etc.
I thought the self-lobotomy bit kind of hit a little too close to home; if you're stuck in "Marxist materialist analysis mode" 24/7 and then have to go to a work picnic or family reunion or something, you know exactly what I'm on about.