American are illiterate and politically incoherent, so I understand the pervasive media illiteracy.
but this show was making its points with a sledgehammer since the first moments and does not let up.
this guy is the equivalent of a dude staring at a billboard that has a picture of his driver’s license with “Kyle Jenkins, You Are A Dumbass” for 4 years before furrowing his brow and saying, “I think this sign is insulting me.”
it’s really hard for me to watch all the body horror in that show, but the little details of anti-union/pro-capital propaganda in the world, and the constant wiping of the ass on culture war tropes cracks me up. the ice skating musical in this latest season was magnificent.
Homelander dates a literal Nazi, figures out she’s a Nazi and is totally cool with it. It’s never been a subtle show.
It was woke from the start. Notice how they cast Karl URBAN and not Karl RURAL!
“pro anti patriacharchy”
This is another fucking The Last Jedi situation where S3 and S4 aren’t great but it has nothing to do with “woke politics”, it’s because the showrunners want a paycheck and drag out a story that could have been done at least one season ago.
Really wish they kept the ‘Homelander tries to lead a supe rebellion against the government only for it to fail miserably because they’re all miserable fuck-ups’ plot from the comic
AREN’T THERE PEOPLE OTHER THAN YOUR FAMILY WHO WILL TRY TO INDOCTRINATE YOU
Yeah, like the fucking puppet show??? idiot??? christ
I mean, I do think it went downhill, but the “woke” stuff has been there since the beginning. That one scene with Huey in Tek Knight’s basement was really unpleasant, it’s a large part of why I don’t like the new season.
yea im kinda sick of getting recommended stuff and discovering scenes like that. between the boys, the 3d berserk anime, and watching the movie flesh and blood recently, all the media friends are exposing me to is basically having a negative overall impact on my psyche. i don’t know how to tell people that the media they are showing me is traumatizing me without coming across as some kind of anti-fun prude who can’t enjoy anything, no matter how politely and gently i try to explain.
My partner and I just got recommended a film ‘about sexworkers’ that the most revolting violent sexscene I’ve ever seen. Shit kinda freezes you, my trick is just saying ‘I’m skipping this’ and fast fwding
the boys literally gave me a week of nightmares because of the ott gore lol
It went too far with all the gore this time imo. I have a pretty high tolerance for that kind of stuff but this show just keeps trying to outdo itslef and it’s starting to really annoy me
I think showrunnes are now realising what kind of gross stuff they can put out on online streaming platforms and a lot of them have absolutely no restraint. Reminds me of that south park episode where they tried to say the word “fuck” as much as possible after TV stations lifted a lot of restrictions they had on swearing
I’ve not seen season 4 but let me guess. The showrunners for some reason decided they needed more horrific depictions of supe rape?
They did a heckin’ kink discourse
Also depicted a niche internet meme fetish posted to Something Awful back in like 2009
