The Boys Doesn't Know Politics 

Show is fine, ya’ll are going hardcore chronically online deep into this shit 💀 actual slop

They confirmed homelander was trump in like season 1

The big issue i have is that this show treats the right wing as if it was the establishment and the left wing as if it was rebellion In reality the right doesn't really have that much power

I think the saddest part is how politicized our world has become that every topic can now be categorized as left or right leaning.

Can people further elaborate on the points he made instead of leaving an angry comment like why not try to have a discussion

The show has always been shitting on both right-wingers and cringe liberals. There are no actual leftist in the show but there are plenty of people who cynically use left-wing talking points that they don't actually believe in to get people to follow them (Neuman) or sell people their shitty product (all of Vought marketing). The overall theme that your leaders/politicians, whether liberal or right-wing, don't believe in what they say to you and are just in it for them own personal gain can easily be applied to both sides. You just only notice it when they criticize the side you agree with.

What made the past three seasons so special (specially season 3) was the fact the political stuff was, by the end of the day, only a background to develop the characters

Doesnt help that outside of the political writing most of the characters feel melodramatic and are acting out of character constantly. Along with a lot of the current plot threads being faint echoes of past ones. Its a mess of a season. I dont really care what a bunch of hollywood people have to say on politics because like this show its all 5th grade level takes on it and a childish hatred almost for the side they dont like. Like fuck man it really feels like these writers dont live in the real world with how cartoonishly stupid they potray right wingers

I just enjoy the plot, idc about the politics

This show went from deconstruction of superhero tropes to political satire. The main story isn't getting anywhere and they just throw in scenes of shock value just for the sake of it. Homelander and Butcher's story has taken a back seat to the uninteresting characters' development despite them hyping it up at the end of last season. I'm not American so the politics doesn't connect to me. I'm here to see evil superheroes and there isn't much of that happening this season. It's just politics.

Before I start yapping, I just wanna say good job on the video, making and editing is a b*tch and I wanna give kudos to you for sharing your thoughts and opinions, however: I disagree with most of your talking points in this video, the only parts I actually agree on are that the new characters range from mediocre to bad and that the whole abortion subplot could've been handled much better. Otherwise, I'd say the boys is mainly a criticism of capitalism, which in essence is a system designed to suck the most value out of it's workers as it can, this is done through devious marketing, manipulation of the public. Both left and right political spectrums do these things, as they are under the influence of capitalism to gain as much power as they can. Thus, I would say, it is more so about a critique of those in power, the ones pushing the ideologies onto the common folk. Is that ironic because the show has openly leftist ideologies? Sure you could say so. Now let me ask you this, does the show have to show all the broad strokes of political nuance? I don't think it does, because then it loses it's focus. Good art always has a message behind it, if you paint it too broad, where is the point to be found? You could argue that you can derive your own meaning from a broad story, stories like that have and will continue to be made. But that's not what the boys is, the boys has always been a show about taking down an oppressive regime, starting a revolution, that's the case whether you view it from the supes point of view, or from the boys point of view. And yet, the heroes of this story are The Boys, because that is how it was always intended to be, we view the revolution as though they are the ones toppling the regime, and that comes with the consequence that anyone who supports the regime, aka the right wing, are viewed as antagonists. That gives a point to the story, a message that the show runners want to portray, it hasn't ever been about being nuanced and showing all sides equally, it's always been about taking down the bad guys, the capitalist, money hungry, power hungry douchebags that sit on top, the ones that oppress the common folk. The only difference in the show between left and right, is that in the show, the right supports those that hold the power: Homelander and his suck ups, which by association, makes them as bad as those in power, because they want to uphold an oppressive regime. My own view on it is that it satirizes the american right wing perfectly, all the issues that the show discusses, the arguments right wing commentators bring up, it's all a stupid show to gain control and power over people, meanwhile the left are trying to spread the power to the people, and that taking down those leaders and their supporters is the right thing to do.

Ive seen several videos like this and you are all wrong. "They started getting extra political throughout the seasons", yea, that might be because it went from killing supes to stopping the supes from doing a coup of the white house and taking over the government, the show's characters got into more political situations, and people are surprised when more political themes pop up. "Oh, but they only make fun of this group and not that", it's a work of fiction about evil superheroes, the writers have political biases that may show, but it seems like the perception of there being more politics is on you. Just try to enjoy the fiction, the entire thing is basically a parody, and caring at all about how obviously extreme and incorrect adaptations of people on you side of politics is not the writers fault, it's how YOU are watching it. I've seen people of the right watch the show make fun of them and laugh, because its edgy comedy wrapped in evil superhero shenanigans

This season is fun just enjoy it i am really likeing it they were building a-train redemption for a couple of seasons and he has gone from someone who is arrogant non caring person who only looks out for himself to someone who cares and is trying to better with his family and make better on past mistakes

The interesting thing to me though is the fact that I walked away from the first two seasons thinking that the media manipulation of the series was a jab against the left, which simply shows that politics have become so polarizing that nobody ACTUALLY knows what the other side believes anymore.

The answer is that the writers of Gen V were more involved with season 4. And it fucking shows. Shame. Hopefully they learn their lesson for season 5

Great analysis. I too, went and rewatched the previous seasons, as I had seen this backlash on the show this season. This season has been very direct in its political message and the story narrative has been moved to the back of the bus. It is now propaganda driven. Characters are out of character. Doctor Who did the same and it showing in fans ratings.

They poke fun at the pizzagate thing but at the same time tek knight has 120 days of Sodom in his bookshelf, which is.. a book about the murder and abuse of minors. Homelander was literally MK ULTRA'd as a child. There is something seriously wrong there.. By having De Sade's sick book 120 days of Sodom as secret lever to his dungeon the showrunners hint that they ARE aware stuff like this actually exists. Kimiko's past, and Homelanders literal MK ULTRA childhood are further proof that they are aware the issue exists. Hyporisy or coming plot twist?

Respectfully you are wrong Edit: damn crybabys in the comments 💀

the fucking amount of times i went "dear god what year is this show set in?" or groaned in pain or wheezed bro oof lel

bro did you completely forget about maeve's sexuality used for marketing in s2 and s3

You seem to miss the point that the whole season is about confronting your past. Which is why frenchie has a lover of which parents he killed, the lover is just a plot object basically so frenchie can confront his past. Kimiko and her clan Starlight has firecracker and her abortion Huei has A-Train and his mother Butcher his mentor and wife. Homelander and his upbringing MM is the only outlier (unless its butcher), which is why he feels a bit odd, like nothing goes on with the character himself, though the season isnt over yet. Firecracker is more like an alex jones type person, just spewing theories and spreading fear. They make fun of the left, they like parodied the pepsi AD, making fun of the fake "wokeness", like starlight only became a part of the team cause she was a woman and was basically the disney princess of the 7. The BLM people taking a cut for themselves isnt exclusive to the left, neither is being outraged when being told otherwise. The false accusation stuff wouldnt work cause the team starlight are more of the underdogs in this case, its not like they hold absoulte power over social media like it does in our world. Like imagine starlight doing a false accusation on someone from the 7, or any one that has to do with vaught, nothing would happen. The abortion stuff was a bit random since it was never mentioned before, but existed there for the tension so starlight can fuck up, (though I feel like firecracker should have mentioned and spinned the SA with starlight and deep, saying she slept her way up instead), the convo after was there to not make it feel completely weird and random. Huwei position is pro life, but starlight is clearly troubled by it and doesnt have a clear positon and feels awful over her decision. You are saying that you find it good that they humanise the homelander forllowers and such and showing that how radicalised they can become, but then you are saying that its too bad that it doesnt show both sides? Sure it would be good, but makes 0 sense for it to happen, unless starlight is truly brought into a deep corner I dont see that ever happening, so there is no opportunity for that to happen. I dont like trump. Any other right winger would have been better than trump, but somehow got a crowd that follow him loyaly while having their ears plugged and eyes closed, so for me its no issue. But even for me it just sometimes feels like "orange man bad" which is a bit tiring, though it still feels natural for the setting, which is why as a whole I dont mind the direction. Unless you a cult following trumpler the season doesnt deserve THAT low of a rating. Its still more of the boys and a good watch even with its missteps. Politics plays a big role, but not the whole role. You cant tell me that this season so far is as bad as madam web. Though if they fuck up the ending as much as they did in season 3, then it might deserve the rating lol. My main issues so far is kimiko and frenchies arc (though for frenchie I hope for a big payout and he seems to turn towards religion to find forgiveness which is a cool detail), The whole barn shit felt like filler and I am still not a fan of the gross sexual humour, like who finds that funny?

Plus Sister Slang character look like a Colonial Marine for new Alien Film based on comic book.

why are we under the impression that they have to be equally fair and balanced? the show has never claimed that they are a commentary on politics, they have claimed, the way you mentioned in the video, that they are a commentary on the people that have created a cult like following for the right. Even so, they have critiqued the left being gullible for the corporate pride stuff (voughtland/any of maeves products you see in the show), the left being more comfortable with a masculine and a feminine woman in a lesbian relationship (Maeve and Elena), and with A-Train not really caring about his heritage and just using it to get back into the spotlight. But these seem a lot smaller to people who are hating on the show because the thing that drives the story forward is the cult of personality that Homelander is, and the inspirations they draw from Donald Trump and his followers himself. So while they could make more parody of the left, but not only would that not drive the story forward, it would distract from what the show truly is.

The interesting thing to me is that both sides suck. The boys picked a side from the jump but it’s become blatant now so everyone cries. The same exact thing would happen if it was reversed. The left would be butthurt and the right would hail the show as amazing. But sitting here crying that they don’t present fair takes for both sides lmaooo like why would they when that’s never been what it was from the jump. Even if they did there’d still be people crying that it criticizes one side more than the other.

I’m glad someone finally is talking about how terrible this shows politics have become this season and it’s not just saying it’s always been like this like an idiot

If I had to sum up the Boys political problem in one sentence. It would be this: Homelander… is not Trump. You may fucking hate Trump. Or love him. Either way. Doesn’t matter. Homelander is really nothing like him. His beliefs are different, goals different, upbringing different, rise to power different, strengths different. At the end of the day. Somewhere in the creation of this show. Homelander became this unique character that was far divorced from the simple “haha Trump” analogy they wanted. And honestly it seemed like they were fine with it until Trump started becoming politically relevant again. Honestly most of the real people they try to parody are so very different from their show counterparts that they come off like straw men. And that will just never be clever or engaging writing.

Good video, you also left out the time the deep said his ex wife pooped in his bed, which is a nod to amber heard and Jonny Depp, (names lol) but it seems that by portraying the deep as Jonny they are supporting amber, which is odd

The show literally makes fun of both sides always. Don’t look at the show as if the boy are the left and vought is the right. Just look at how Vought does the “Woke” movies, commercials, and product placement. The show mainly focuses on the story, none of the political jokes take anything away from it.

I don’t agree with the politics of the show, but still watch it. There are many things I wouldn't agree with politically, but outright boycotting the show would be much more in line with cancel culture. Something the right has attributed to the Left. Funny enough, the right is now engaging in it. It's sad to see that "hearing the other side" is not something we consider. Covering our eyes and ears will only keep up from finding common ground.

Honestly I got into the boys since my friend recommended me to watch 4 or 3 years ago, great show and I agree with you. I’m looking at people videos reviews having mixed opinions. That’s all I gotten say.

It's not that The Boys doesn't understand what messages it wants to send, they're very clear, the show is LITERALLY about a BAND OF REBELS fighting a CORPORATION, its just that the audience (well, at least one half of it) who historically is ignorant and not educated just now realized what the shows talking about. The list of super obvious comparisons to real life with this show is so long that it genuinely confuses me how this many people didn't get it, like, they LITERALLY HAVE A CHARACTER, NAMED STORM. FRONT. The show is satirizing US Politics, and because this country is so right wing to the point where basic ideas such as "people shouldn't pay for something that falls out the sky" or "people deserve health care" is considered "radical", so OF COURSE the show is MOSTLY about one side of the spectrum. Like, the current plot is literally the gang fighting basically Donald Trump (Homelander) Alex Jones (firecracker), and Fox News/CNN (Vought Media) 😭😭😭 The pure ignorance from recent haters of the show is so illegitimate to the point where i dont even wish to start a conversation with yall, it's like yall live on another planet or something, what show were yall watching this whole time???

No, it doesn't; it's a TV show. The objective is to entertain by making fun of the extreme sides of society, not to teach you politics

Ethan doesn't know anything. U are dead wrong maam

12:20 Hm I really like those ideas and would be interesting to see the boys explore. But do you think the show *actually* representing both sides of the political fanaticism would reduce their audience? They clearly want a certain group to be pointed at and laughed at, if their core audience were to be criticized in a meaningful way wouldn't that put them off to the show? Ironic for kripke though, bro worked on supernatural, originally catered to the all-american schitck type audience

I can already tell any leftists who watch this video are going to be triggered and will try to dunk on you for being the triggered one but this really was a well thought out and fair video. To me The Boys has always been woke leftist propaganda but at least so far it has managed to stay entertaining enough to keep going with it as much as I may roll my eyes when Stan Edgar makes a random as hell comment that he doesn’t have the same privileges as a white guy. Most people aren’t just realizing how that the show has been overtly leftist. We have always known that. It’s just the show has been undeniably getting progressively dumber and dumber as it goes on and it becomes more difficult to overlook the one sided political slop. For fucks sake in the last episode Homelander sees a bullet hole in Sages head and does literally nothing. The guy can see through walls and could have discovered the boys in 2 seconds buts they really gotta drive the point home that Homelander is just so dumb now. I do wonder if they realize they are completely and totally killing any tension that previously existed in the show by jumping the shark like that.

i'm non american so i dont understand the politicals i feel pretty fun to watch. only amercan feel that the politicals in the boys a criter site. also i feel bad about this ss is that i can predict thing nôrmally the boy would have suprise me

Who would've thought that the political season is more political than the other seasons. Season 1: Expose vought while figuring out a way to kill homelander. Season 2: Stop stormfront with her radicalization and get ryan away from homelander. Season 3: Get soldier boy to kill homelander and get ryan away (I think going off of memory) Season 4: Stop homelander and neuman from making a coup with the support of other supes and get ryan away finally from homelander. I will say the more political that season 4 is bad writing in my opinon due to how its just boring so far imo but the political hints in the show is pointing fun at how no matter what side you are blindly following people who show that they have the same opinions as you and view them as gods (maga meatriding) is dumb af and is bad. The whole message of the show with vought and supes are basically corporations are gay and they'll shill out to you for a buck and the supes are people who dont gaf who you are and just want attention from you, and will even use you for their amusement

Love this review. Very easy to digest and made many great points

"Eric Kripgay"

I agree with you about everything 100%

I feel like everyone claiming this guys wrong in the comments is most likely young as they cannot properly articulate why the points brought up are flawed, nobody has a problem w political bias inherently, what people have issues w is the lack of subtly and nuance in the writing, instead of having the audience see the issues, corruption and hypocrisy on both sides and allowing them to come to their own conclusions, the show chooses instead to force feed it’s narrative using characters as props to send a message that’ll be dated within the decade, what media like this does is just ends up further dividing the population by relentlessly mocking one side while vindicating the other

Basically the writers got scared about how right wingers seemed to like to show and decided to dial ip to eleven the scenes that reaffirm their point of view I don’t think S4 is atrocious, just pretty mid compared to the previous seasons

U realize the boys has to be political for the whole main plot is literally homelander becoming the president it only makes sense that they’d go deeper in politics u guys are acting like the shit has no political ties

right? left? conservative? im not speaking your language.

Cool vid, I just want to say how I think this show does its way into talking about the politics. While I agree the right gets a bit too much focus and it’s a little unbalanced on who gets made fun of, I still think the left has fs gotten made fun of a lot throughout the show. The left in the show less uses what they say and more rather what they do to be more equal. The A-Train Commerical being one of them. I do agree though that the show really should’ve a commentary on both sides when comes to the very far left or far right. I think the writing style had to change this season due to the fact far right content has been very popular everywhere you go. So it was inevitable the show would lean into that direction. Season 4 focuses more on the legality of how supes should operate outside their original purpose. Homelander is trying to get his fans to disagree with bills with his immense power, so it would be pretty hard not to do it on the nose with the writing when it came to the right. Overall though, I think EPS 4-6 have been some of the best in the whole show, just out there and fun the episodes can get. For the character arcs I really have no idea they would’ve toke with Frenchie or Kimiko’s arcs. I think they should’ve been regulated to be an assist so the Boys could further destroy Vought and the Seven. Sorry if I had bad grammar I just wanted to say that, good vid 👍

Homelander is racist he said no to a brown supe because "captain al qaeda"

This is it. This is precisely what Ive felt is off about The Boys. Thank you so much for this review

2:14 For the writers to also criticize the far left, first there would have to exist a far left in the US. There doesn’t. You have right, and extreme right.

"the far left" what lol

14:00 the writers don't care plain and simple. homelander is literally in call of duty or mortal combat (i dont remember), it's easy to forget they are those people who virtue signal & using politics for their own gain lol. I lowkey feel like a little bit of the show is rage bait to get those views from both those who are rage watching and laughing at the right

This is actually a fair and factual analysis

the show has always been like this, and it doesnt have to satirize the left because it is leftist. i agree that there are leftist ideas and people that are dishonest and just as manipulative as the right, but this show is almost exclusively touching on basic ideas such as racism, mysoginy, homophobia, masculinity, and radicalization, most of which are very straightforward issues that dont need two sides because theyre very basic issues with straightforward answers. bigotry is bad, masculinity is more nuanced than physical strength, and radicalization is the only one with any nuance from both sides. they dont touch on both sides of radicalization and i agree they should, but most other issues dont need to have both sides because there should be a clear side to pick. putting political views in media is normal, and the boys does it very well for the most part.

Buddy go back to watching sponge bob. Leave the grow up show and go watch ur cartoons.

I still don't get the hate for season 4 and I HATE liberal soy boy anything but this season is still awesome and edgy

the boys writers makes fun of people like you and thats why your mad

I was here before the woke zombies flooding comments with "the show always was making fun of you righties" mantra. Follow Kripke's advice and go watch something else, like, "Better Call Saul" or "Mr. Robot", for example.

We get it, you're a conservative. Just stop watching the show and quit whining.

Firecracker doesn't represent any real life conservative or right wing ideas. shes a badly written generalization and stereotype conceived from the writers own ignorance.

Great video showing the gradual politics in the first season that enhances the story to the overbearing politics of season 4. First video on your channel will watch more.

Nuh uh I think your wrong

Ok but whats wrong with a show having political bias? Lots of shows do. The show consistently mocks the way people support the feminist, blm and lgbt communities. It aint political bias to display racists as the bad guys.but yes, this show is left leaning and always has been. Nothing wrong with that

Great season & love it so far! Sorry all you Homelanders/Republicans are getting butthurt for your bigoted beliefs😅

Still a good show and conservatives just ultimately provide more material to make fun of all you can really criticize the left on is the gender bender nonsense and virtue signaling

I think they know politics just fine and that the right audience doesn't 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Great balanced review! Sounds like just another TV series rotting with cheap politics and prioritizing ideology over storytelling as the season goes on.

Yes it does. It's just that you don't like it. Imo, it's pretty great

Garbage take. I won't elaborate further.

The show is making fun of nationalism. Homelander? The far left doesn’t take away peoples rights. The far right take untill nothing is left.

Holy crap you are soooooo wrong. Never cook again.

your not special

outside of american politics, the right side of the political spectrum is fundamentally about taking away rights. the fact that you're sitting here and complaining that the boys writers doesnt support the right wing is genuinely insane, everything wrong with todays society/world has always stemmed from capitalism, imperialism, and right wing ideaolgies. maybe critically think for once in your life and you would see that the left just wants people to live in happiness and in a healthy manner. every view you have in the video (besides the boring characters in s4) is complete bs and its such an embarrassment that i share the same air with you, genuinely you're just upset that show is calling you out.