Earlier this week the 4th season of the popular Amazon Prime series The Boys premiered in standard fasion with three episodes available immediately. As with the season 3 premiere which featured a supe shrinking down to crawl up a man’s dick hole then sneeze and accidentally grow to full size, tearing the man in half, the degenerate activity is on full display.
Within the first three episodes we’re treated to a scene inside a sauna where multiple copies of a multiplying supe are nude and eating each others asses. When I saw it I literally yelled out and threw my arms up as if I’d just seen a car accident.
The plot revolves around Victoria Neuman, the head-exploding female villain introduced a couple seasons ago, making moves to secure herself a spot in the new presidential administration and eventually the presidency itself. She’s forced into a truce with The Boys because she doesn’t want them to out her as a supe.
Meanwhile Homelander is dealing with the stresses of his murder trial and his role as head of The 7 where he feels his suboordinates are too scared to criticize him. As such he enlists the help of Sister Sage, a black supe who is the “smartest person in the world” to hatch a plot to bring Vought under his thumb.
The writing is…not good, the dialogue plods along like an old man with a bum knee. Characters like Starlight are relegated to background noise and we’re treated to the same infighting between Butcher and Mother’s Milk over Butcher being a duplicitous piece of shit, only this time his brain is turning to muck and he’s hallucinating his dead ex wife.
There’s a subplot about Huey’s dad having a stroke and his mother coming back into his life, Huey is especially whiny this season. Also Butcher’s son has been lost to Homelander and is enlisted to do more an more extreme acts of “heroism” where he splatters a Vought actor staging a fake robbery against a wall and understandably feels guilty about it. Also, Frenchie’s gay now so I guess all that time spent on the hackneyed Kimiko love story subplot was for nothing.
They introduce a new character called Firecracker who is basically just a female Alex Jones stereotype ranting about pedophiles and troons. The show’s painfully liberal producers only understand conservatism through the lens of progressive media hysteria, it all comes off as a recent Colbert sketch. It’s very obvious that Eric Kripke felt earlier seasons of the show didn’t own the chuds enough so he went all out this year.
This hamfisted slop isn’t anything new to the series, in season 2 we’re treated to Stormfront, the Nazi supe, lecturing Homelander’s son about white genocide, a scene that made me lol. The show had previously been able to balance jokes and political commentary fairly well in past seasons but for season 4 it’s trying to be a 1:1 parody of the real world and it just doesn’t work.
It’s clear the Bush era fearmongering angle is played out so this show is going after the MAGA crowd now, this is likely exacerbated over the producers anxiety over the looming possibility of another Trump presidency in a few months. There’s no subtelty to the message anymore, tongue in cheek critiques of corporate malfeasance are gone and we’re beaten over the head with “Trump bad” over and over again. And anyone thinking the show lost it’s way is mocked for not being “media literate” enough.
Progressive outrage adapts to a new target every couple of months, the first season was parodying the #MeToo movement, that all seems pretty trite nowadays. But in trying to be a social commentary on the ever changing landscape of modern politics, The Boys finds itself shedding its long term relevancy in favor of appealing to brain-killed liberal normies.
When we look back on The Boys in five years will we remember all the cool action and gore? Or will we laugh at all the Trump references that have aged like milk?
Homelander is essentially just a Trump stand-in now, repeating the pablum that Kripke thinks right wing chuds hold as sacrament. Of course anyone who is concerned about transgenderism, immigration, or the rising tide of anti-white sentiment is just some out of touch racist boomer or worse, an insane conspiracy theorist in the vein of Q anon.
I do think it’s funny how the show tries to mock such people while having a plot about a CIA-backed black ops team trying to murder the Vice President. That said, guys like Kripke can’t cope with the fact their smug liberal sensibilities are seen as obnoxious and out of touch so he has to lash out.
The show appeals exclusively to the aforementioned brain-killed normies who just want to see viscera and degeneracy and to have their safe liberal opinions repeated back to them via a nonwhite character. Everyone else seems to be browing tired of the hack commentary that infests not only this show, but every piece of media Hollywood is trying to force down our throats. Fuck this shit.