The Amazon Prime series starring Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, and Antony Starr started as a fantastical, darkly funny sendup of the superhero genre. Now it’s set in a political landscape that looks distressingly like our own.
“The Boys” began as a middle finger to the M.C.U., but it evolved into an electrifying political satire in its second season, which aired just ahead of the 2020 election. It’s then that Homelander , the leader of the Seven, meets his ideal woman: a white supremacist named Stormfront , who informs him that the era of courting the masses is over. “You don’t need fifty million people to love you,” she says. “You need five million people fucking pissed.
Even as Kripke delights in the gruesome and the absurd, he advances a question that too few actual political actors seem to have asked themselves: How many norms and institutions are they willing to destroy in order to “win”? “The Boys” ’s fluency with current events, once its great strength, has proved a double-edged sword.
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