'The Boys' Showrunner Is A Hypocrite, And Shock Value Isn't That Interesting 

The ''If you don't like it, don't watch it'" crowd are hypocrites. You will still see the same people come here to rant about how Erik is toxic.

This is one of the most underrated channels on the entirety of RU-vid. Erik certainly is one of the best tv and movie critics out there in 2024.

Shock value is boring as hell totally agree. Shameless was another show ruined by constantly trying to use that tool.

the problem with their batman analogue is that what they think the character is and does is already a parody of the real character. with how little effort it takes to parody a strawman it's no wonder the show isn't very interesting.

Kripke's pretty politically locked. I'm sure if confronted he would engage in some bizarre whatboutism gymnastics to try to explain away why this is okay that it happens to men.

It’s what happens when writers start prioritizing their politics and ideology over story writing

Every crit of Batman has already been dealt with the comics multiple times. Basicly Gotham is so corrupt all the money that does get raised to help it goes to the corrupt who steal it.

He just thinks he's outside the critic; "everyone is stupid but me" kinda situation. EDIT: to clarify, Kripke thinks "the other side", or just conservatives, are the villains and with the show he is making fun of them, but most of the time he, as when you say "he thinks it's hilarious", behave in just the same way -or even worse.

Slightly different context but this kind of reminds me of Thor's treatment in Endgame. The man had lost his entire family and just witnessed the death of his brother, his best friends, the genocide of his people and narrowly failed in saving half the universe from non existence. He's suffering from obvious trauma, depression and alcoholism but hey it's hilarious cause he's a fat gamer now 🙄 as someone with mental health issues this did not sit well and felt like a complete wasted opportunity.

100 percent agree. I didnt know the show runner said that they thought it was hilarious or whatever, but that scene and most of the episode made me feel kinda gross. I get tired of this idea of male disposability and hearing the show runner basically blew it off is not great. The kind of blind spots people have about this sort of thing is shocking especially when they profess a pseudo sensitivity about it when it comes to women but not men. The way we value, or devalue them in this case, is pretty terrible and I wish people were better.

I just find it odd how male sexual assault is still treated as a joke in fiction but if it happens to a woman its always portrayed as horrific. Its abhorrent no matter the gender. Why is there still this double standard especially after something like Baby Reindeer comes out and shows its a serious issue. Its like how sexually objectifying men in entertainment is considered fine but god forbid you show some skin on a female character and the creator is labelled a misogynist who just appeals to "the male gaze" etc. Its the hypocrisy that kills me.

It’s so odd how hypocritical the shows pov changes depending on what gender the victim is.

Thank the gods you’re talking about this. A shocking few are saying anything about it period Keep up the good shit!

How do you get it so right every single time

I call him Erik Crapki

Everyone’s subplot involves something we had never seen or heard about popping up and I struggle to care in the slightest. Frenchies arc is not only out of nowhere but also the same arc he had in the beginning. Starlight being upset that her mom who shot her kid up with V? Isn’t talking to her over an abortion? Who cares. The fact Hughies dad woke up and killed people is traumatic and we never find out if this event makes the news or tarnished his fathers reputation. The fact homelander doesn’t care how or why sage got shot is crazy.

Thanks for your great analysis, as always. I really appreciate you pointing out the disturbing double standard in our culture regarding victims of SA. It's a challenge for most victims to come forward because there's still a lot of societal stigma - I worked at a crisis center, and SA remains one of the most difficult issues to handle. Many people have unconscious bias against victims--many victims themselves have this bias. When you add in the double standard regarding gender, it becomes even more complicated - our society expects women to be victims, not men, and this attitude disturbs me for both female and male survivors, as it invalidates their experiences in different ways.

This is why I love your reviews Eric. It’s honest, it’s fairly weighed, and always measured. It makes it easy to hear and understand your perspective. I thought the same thing as you about this last episode and having Hughie go through that. It was played for laughed but I just found myself being disturbed by it. It feels so weird to say that a satire about superheroes and “the right”, has become a “parody” of itself. If not for Butcher and Homelander, I couldn’t watch this show. Those performances do it wonders. However, similar to TWD, they are stretching story really thin when there just isn’t a lot there. Setting up new powers for butcher, and dragging out his hallucinations, the volleying of political theaterism between starlights and firecrackers campaigns, Hughie’s rushed storyline with his father and mother, the losing sight for 3-4 episodes of the exploding head version of Kamala Harris, etc. not to mention them saying that JDM was going to be tech knight but most definitely wasn’t, playing SA of Hughie for laughs, not addressing the stark change of looks for starlight and mothers milk… I don’t know. You really did say it best my friend

I agree that The Boys' shock value stuff this season has kind of jumped the shark. But I have to side with Kripke...to a point. As pointed out below, the attitudes of the other characters as not being worried about the stakes is all you need to know with how to take in the gravity of the situation. You're not. And while it's a valid discussion about whether there's absolutely NO context where sexual assault can be presented as humorous, the real hypocrisy is tut-tutting Kripke for this, when outright murder is constantly presented as humorous, not just in The Boys, but in almost any situation in any sort of movie. The bad guys getting killed is often the punchline of a joke. Arnold Schwartzenegger made a career off of death punchlines. If sexual assault jokes are grounds for making videos pointing out hypocrisy, then MURDER as anything but, well, murder is ten times worse. How about that hilarious sequence in Pulp Fiction in the car where the guy gets his head accidentally blown off? Is shooting someone in the head FUNNY? How insensitive is that to people who have been left widowed or orphaned by murder? Or their lives ruined by attempted murder? How about all the kids in schools who've been murdered? Let's start just calling out every murder in any movie or TV show that's presented as just disposable side characters being hilariously killed. Nazis killing and getting killed in Raiders of the Lost Ark is funny. Nazis killing in Schindler's List, not so much. The truth I'll agree with is that it's all getting very tired on The Boys. It's so tired that it's leading to unnecessary articles and videos like this that expand out that boredom with the gore to finding deeper sins. This was gore too far, but because I'm just bored with it. We've reached the limit of exactly how far The Boys can take this sort of aesthetic. I hope they are listening. But the one storytelling nitpick I'll offer up, is that you have Webweaver, a supe with a sticky hole in his back that emits gooey fluid... and he's invited to a sex dungeon by a guy whose whole deal is exploring new holes, or making new holes, and yet he doesn't immediately expose Hughie as a fraud by noticing Hughie doesn't have the web-shooter hole? That's a plot hole that Tek Knight would look at and need to go excuse himself over..

Good take. Another thing that’s really sapped the drama for me is how The Boys don’t ever seem to be in danger anymore. In almost every episode they’re fighting a Supe with a half-baked plan and are fine every time. The only tense scenes now are in Vought tower where you really feel the pressure from Homelander against all the other employees and it’s great. I miss the early days when The Boys had to get creative to kill Translucent and were legitimately scared about being found by Homelander. This past episode Homelander sends Noir and Deep to their headquarters to kill them, which was nuts. They knew where to find them this whole time and didn’t consider taking an afternoon to go kill them? Most of the time the seven is just sitting around the tower most of the time anyway. Cool fight, but the circumstances were silly. Same problem with Neuman. Hughie throws acid in her first in episode one and she just lets it go? Why would you not immediately kill this group of people actively seeking out ways to kill you? This season should have started out with a plan going wrong and French or MM getting killed, setting the tone that they need to be smart and cautious to win.

I am still waiting for Starlight to face justice for murdering that innocent man in season 2. I pretty sure it would have made that thing with her beating firecracker’s ass much more believable than people just clutching their pearls at the fact that she had an abortion cause the writers needed to have “grr anti abortion people bad grrr” statement

I just read your Forbes article on this topic. It came up when I searched “Is The Boys supposed to be funny?” I just watched all four seasons this past week and you said a lot of the things that I was thinking. The first season was really good but by season 4 it was just playing in the background. To me, the show was never funny, but the story used to be good

I'm one of those people that did stop watching after season 3 but my boyfriend is still watching and I have to listen to all his complaints in detail that I feel like I'm watching the train wreck in real time. This made me glad that Kripke was 1) reined in by the sole female writer in the SPN writing room to prevent non-con issues of the male protagonist being played for laughs and 2) he was fired from SPN as showrunner after season 5 and ten years later SPN ended with a good bittersweet finale. Kripke admitted he would have ended SPN on a much darker tone that would have likely killed its rewatch value like how the original season 5 finale was written had it not been renewed.

I'd have to agree, watched the first couple of episodes and seriously wondered if I should continue watching, which was a weird feeling considering I was a huge fan of the show. I continued with the other episodes and felt it got better but then it dripped again. Like you said, it feels like the story is just spinning it's wheels and they're just going for shock value at this point. The shocking scenes don't feel earned anymore. There's still some good stuff in there but this season just feels like filler which is sad.

You have to remember though that in the context of the situation none of it is sexual assault. The entire premise is that Webweaver has been contacted by Tek Knight as a potential "sidekick" candidate (i.e., entering into a consensual dom/sub relationship), with all the kink that that position apparently entails. Webweaver is established earlier to be sexually promiscuous and willing to do anything, laying the groundwork for that. Therefore, during the dungeon scenes, Tek Knight and Ashley have no idea that their unorthodox sex play is being visited upon an unwilling participant up until when Hughie is finally busted.

These creatives are failing us.

Season 3 of the boys was the beginning of the downturn, but I never expected it to be this bad. The writers are clearly out of ideas and shown they really don't know how to flesh out multiple characters

“If you don’t like it don’t watch it” is great advice. I stopped watching “The Boys” after season 2 because it was bad. The only reason Hollywood and especially the game industry feel free to produce bad products and openly hate their customers is because they abuse the good will their betters fostered with the IP they “mine.” If it benefits you as a reviewer/ critic then that’s great but it’s horrible advice to “stick with something you hate” especially as a critic; it’s your JOB to help people not waste time or money. So once again “if you hate it don’t watch it…” simply as.

I still like the show, but all your points are valid. The writing has gotten lazy.

I agree with you overall man. I still really love season 1 to 3 personally(but I hated Gen V though…hated it loll), but I have to say that season 5 is a major step down. Even if I take out the “way too much on the nose jabs at the far right now” of the equation, the season has still big storytelling issues anyway. Too many storylines that kinda go nowhere and/or are resolved too quickly and the season doesn’t have a clear vision of what the overarch is. Characters do stuff and random crazy/gory things happen because “plot”, but there’s no development, no depth, no real friendship or banters between them. It feels more like a really dark sitcoms than a dark show that has humor in it. I don’t know…this season is way darker, meaner but without its charm. It’s like as if it was written by different people it’s crazy.

Agree 💯. It’s been moving more and more towards caricature than deconstruction. For example, taking shots at political parties and sycophants is great but taking shots at cartoonish versions of those groups is lazy, lame and unoriginal. And for me, shock value is “holy cow I can’t believe that just happened” and not just “wow that was gross and over the top”. 🤷‍♂️

The show has become ugly and icky and all the subtletly died like a rose in a cold winter

I'm not even the biggest Batman fan, but that perception of Batman is so shit. Speaking as a person who's been homeless before and certainly poor, who do these people think the criminals - the "poor" people Batman hunts - victimize? So, if you save a poor person from the criminal activity of a criminal, the criminal is still the oppressed and the police officer - or Batman - is still oppressor? What a mental patient.

They shat the bed early with a few key changes from the comic that just make no sense, but they kept enough of the intent to make it work, especially given a handful of stellar performances. The problem they've had is the changes are increasingly nonsensical and pointless, and the not only is the shock value so much less than in the books, it also has no underlying point, which it always had in the books. The Tek-Knight they've given us in the show is just a pathetic pervert, and a pitiful downgrade of what he actually was in the comic, which was equal parts hilarious and tragic. What they did with Starlight ended up sad and pathetic too, especially when compared to the comic.

At some point i was hoping that Neuman was the cause of the stroke in Hughie dad but i was expecting too much. Shock value is now the currency of the show.

Really glad I wasn't the only one who found this episode uncomfortable to watch. Sucks that you got so much pushback for calling it out but you did the right thing and I think your criticism is spot on 👍

Been waiting for this

Personally, i stopped watching after S2. I had a feeling it would start to go down from that point.

Yet another example of why I love keeping up with your reviews: even if I disagree with your appreciation or disappointment of something, at least I can rest knowing you've got media literacy. While I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, it strikes me like Eric Kripke didn't even watch that scene to have thought it hilarious. I guess it's called Dirty Business for good reason; business be doing Hughie dirty.

You made solid points here and in your article about "what if it was Starlight?" and while I also thought that it was crazy that they played the entire sequence for laughs, I think what most surprised me was the sort of bait and switch when Huey broke down afterwards. I honestly thought they were going to address how messed up it was, but then they turned it into "oh, he's only upset about his dad." It is too bad because I also agreed with your assessment that the show was getting a bit better. It is very strange though how they waited until halfway into the season to bring in the virus arc (and assuming everyone watched Generation V). Actually introducing that earlier could have focused the first three episodes that seemed super meandering. Last point too, I agree with you about the show being in decline for awhile, but I don't really feel like this season was a sharp drop off, just a continued steady fall off. But that might just be because I really hated the temporary V stuff in season 3. It completely defeated the original pitch of the show, normal humans trying to defeat egotistical crazy supes.

Tek knight could have been used for His actual Abilities and connections. Also , why didn’t hurt her found out the moment tek knight noticed he didn’t have a web hole? He didn’t even mention webweavers webhole

Spot on. Although Hughie breaks down at the end ia still not enough.

If you guys don't like Erik's takes don't watch his reviews! >8o). I've liked this season better than Erik, but I ended up fast-forwarding through this episode. Regarding the double standard for the sexual abuse: It's part in parcel with what "social justice" sadly has become - patriarchy payback In so many recent properties, men are subjected to the patronizing, marginalizing, objectifying and demeaning portrayals that was considered being done to female characters over the years.

There are so many great talented actors on this show. It sucks the writing is so hit and miss this season.

When the scene of hughie disguised as webweaver getting sexually assaulted by tek knight and later by ashley too came on, i could painfullt tell that it was intended for laughs but the whole scene just made me so uncomfortable and kinda annoyed, because im a male victim of sexual assault by a girl and the fact startlights assault by the deep its played as a serious scene with a message against assault which is you know all good obvi, but when its a man being assaulted its supposed to be funny even tho as you said yourself erik " if hughie doesnt do this and blows his cover he could die so this really isnt funny" you nailed it on the mark because hughirs situation was arguably worse than starlights. And the fact the showrunner described the hughie scene as "Hilarious" is disgusting and his incredibly childish response of "If you dont like it dont watch it" which is similar to when a child puts there fingers in there ears and go "Lalala I'm not listening"

Such an underrated channel. This deserves to have 10xs the followers. Keep it up Erik !

Got banned from the boys reddit because I pointed out how SA on men is the same thing as SA on women. But apparently it isnt the case... soooo yeah. also, the show would have been better had they not strayed this far from the original content. also finally, this wouldnt have upsetted me this much, but the attitude of the showrunner of the boys towards male SA is a good example of why men keep all the pain and distress to themselves and end up taking their lives, way more, then women. CDC 2022: In 2022, men died by suicide 3.85 times more than women. White males accounted for 68.46% of suicide deaths in 2022.

Season 1 was fantastic. 2 lost me. It relied on the cheap shock tactics (especially the animal cruelty stuff) over plot. Everything I've heard about 3 & 4 tells me I was right to check out at the end of 2.

The writers can't think straight. Politics poisons everything.

The only other obsession bad guys get aside from kink is loving classical music and opera. Which the most reverse class bigotry and reprehensible writing trope in my book. Plus your point about the Boy's creator's hypocrisy is dead on and his reply went beyond being tone deaf into immoral for a show that is preachy beyond words. Though like seeing the fanboys pull out the industrial strength copium to weasel their way around that.

I completely agree. I know it’s part of the boys DNA to have these shock scenes but they felt more natural in the flow of the show in previous season. I’m not the biggest fan of shock value crap but I know it’s always going to be part of this but at this point I agree, it seems lazy writing is now just ‘let’s add in a supe doing an ATM human centipede like why? Why do they all need kinks you’re so right. This show is definitely spinning its wheels and couldn’t agree more about Frenchie and MM. GoT has trained us audiences these days that there are actual stakes and things happen when they should. Why these two are still alive is beyond me, even hughie and starlight can go, they’re also both just dull and boring. All these characters are bumbling fools and always get saved. I’m basically only interested in the story with Butcher and Homelander

I agree about the awful Hughie scene, but I have to object to the notion that Gen V was somehow 'good' or even watchable. Also, there is a lot more to attack in this episode.

I'm traumatized after watching that BS

That's really a shame. The last time I got excited at a show or movie was when Butcher and Soldier boy were fighting Homelander. It's like some kind of cult that infects everyone and takes over.

very similar to the double standard they have with nudity. almost like theres a pattern here....

I read your Forbes article on it and it was spot on. The response you got on X was a bit perplexing but that seems to be a minority. Everyone I know who loved this show, including myself here, have struggled to get through this season. The slow plot is the main reason but the shock value has taken the lead, is overtly politicised and is coming more frequently than the jokes in Airplane. The show is a parody of the first season now and you calling it out has been both honest and well articulated. It's very bizarre how the Batman being a fascist stuff (or just criticising him in general rather than spinning an alternative version of him) is slipping into projects such as this, The Flash, Titans and even Blue Beetle without any degree of quality control, or without the realisation that it's both untrue (or at least unlikely and up for debate) and winding up regular fans.

He also think if you don’t like Erin Moriartys plastic surgery you shouldn’t watch the show either. Well, that could lose a lot of people, her choice is objectively bad. She’s upset because she knows that. I’d get it reversed.

I tuned out.....the booty bandit storyline took me out totally.

that description of batman from the show runner is beyond braindead. didnt say one true thing and the worst part is he knows it he is just lying deliberatly. and that he doesnt know what facism is is almost 100% certain. what a joke of a person

This season feels WAYYYYY more like the comic which has absolutely no nuance and is just filled with degeneracy for the sake of being edgy

Best argument out there!

It’s definitely without a story this season. I’d agree it’s assault. You’re correct, society still seems not to recognise it as such. And yes, it’s become an analogue for current times rather than parody

Tek knight could have been used for His actual Abilities and connections. Aside from the whole none consent and his despair used as a joke … why didn’t tek knight even try to mess with his webhole ? His whole Thing is holes

Shock value can be decent when used in moderation... but even in Season 1 (let alone first comic issue) I just got exhausted from it before the end. It wasn't even shocking rhat a shock was being presented, it was just annoying.

Erik your subscribers numbers dont give you justice, you are really good at what you do. I just cant resist watching your takes on films etc, they all go along the common sense road, something which, suprisingly, is largerly missing from YT.

Erik have you read the comics? I read them years ago and I really liked them, but I never thought it could translate to a TV series well. All the shocking stuff felt real and nasty in the comics. On the show, it just comes off as juvenile crassness. I tried with he show for the first 3 episodes and I just could not go on.

Both sides of the political spectrum are happy to laugh at their own expense. This changes when one side is painted as the most bad-faith interpretation of their beliefs and the other isn't.

Very good review. I am as much disappointed in the show for becoming as bone-headed and shallow as it is now as I am in many reviewers for being so blind towards its sickening spin on female vs male SA. Thank you for pointing it out!

Tek Knight has always had a kink for holes. his superpower (extremely enhanced senses which is why he's such a good detective) comes from a brain tumor which makes him a masochist and a sadist basically as well as making him want to engage in sexual relations with any object possible. Even in the comics, although Tek Knight didn't have powers, he still as the tumor which does the same thing as in the show. It's still a terrible and weird scene and they handled it very bad. Although, it isn't a a random scene and Tek Knight's bizarre kinks aren't a new thing.

Have you seen the show Baby Reindeer? I think you should have mentioned how Baby Reindeer’s depiction of men who are victims is a great counter example to this type of writing.

Great review! I am very conservative and I know we would disagree on a lot on the political front but you always have a fair take on your reviews. I appreciate the balance. Also, have you ever watched and reviewed Apples Slow Horses? Keep up the good work!

I didnt mind it that much as Huey was impersonating someone who would have been a consenting partaker, to follow through with the ruse. Though I do agree that Erin Kripke personality is shinning through more and more and the quality of the show is suffering because of it. I dont mind satire that is relevant to the world, like Homelander and Trumps parallels. But alot of it feels forced and shoe horned in, ala the abortion issue that has nothing to do with the world of superheroes. It just kills the verisimilitude of the world and makes you think of the writers room patting themselves on the back and just smelling their own farts instead of focusing on good story.

Kripke objectively made Tek Knight more reprehensible and less sympathetic than Garth Ennis did. Tek Knight in the comic is a good man whose sexual issues are due to a brain tumor, and even then he does everything he can to avoid hurting people even though he doesn't know what is causing it. And yes, misandry is normal, more at eleven.

You seem to be the only sane person left at Forbes

I thought those scenes were very hard to watch. I also think that the Starlight/Butcher conflict is extremely forced. The absence of Tek Knight's suit is a glaring omission, given that it could allow Butcher to join a fight against homelander (my god, this show will use any plot contrivance to not have them kill homelander).

I’m glad I didn’t waste my time watching this show beyond the first 30 minutes. Anytime a showrunner tells people to not watch their show I will listen to them.

I was of two minds about that scene. The first was that, as the scene began, I was a little uncomfortable with how this was predictably going to go down. And indeed, throughout I had this discomfort: both in what was taking place specifically, and in how I noticed kink generally was being portrayed to an audience, which I thought was frankly tired and uncreative. The other sense was that it was really being played for laughs, and its comedy didn't entirely fail for me. To the extent that the show depicts one assault as exactly that, with a certain intent and tone and acknowledging of ramifications, I could tell that fundamentally this scene was meant as nothing more than a gag- no pun intended. In other words, Hughie, like a cartoon character, would get blown up and still be fine, while this was not true of Starlight, treated as human and vulnerable. And for the scene, I was willing to go halfway with it. It definitely wasn't hilarious as Kripke thinks, and it was weird, but it did get some laughs from me. I don't think this kind of scene is worth it if it isn't absolutely hilarious, so the scene wasn't worth it. And it seems to expose something badly askew about what Kripke and the writers think of vulnerability, and of the responsibility they have as storytellers to depict it right. Jennifer Maas was hitting the right notes in her questions, calling it a sexual assault and saying surely this is kicking a character while they're down, and asking if the trauma will be given its due attention. Kripke's apparent bemusement that one would even think of it that way is most telling.

I've really enjoyed the season more than season 3, in particular episode 5. But the latest episode was one of gthe worst hours of television I have sat through lol.

Very spot on that their portrayal of sex kinks is very puritan for a show that is dying to be edgy.

Yep. You've brought some points I wrote somewhere else. It's yet another example of double standards. This show has become so heavily political and preachy, it's no longer fun to watch. All is happening basically only to piss, shock and disgust people, but at the expense of actually good writing. I'm not even being made fun of most of the time, but still entirely understand why the right is especially pissed off. It's not a good business move to piss a half of your paying audience and basically telling them how dumb they are only for different beliefs and politics... It used to be more subtle, more balanced and actually even thought provoking at times... Gen V was so much better, that I don't entirely understand this shift in writing, when it's not even that far apart from each other and it must have been written around the same time. I don't get this trend of telling people to f off, either... Just write good stories that everybody can enjoy and "problem" solved.

The political stuff was so hammy I honestly thought that it was being played sarcastically. Not surprised but disappointed to learn that they were actually doing a politics. At least they're bad at it I guess.

I like it. Not only because I enjoy me some good shock value. I think it has a good plot. With a lot of weird funny sidetracks. Flying cannibal sheep and stuff. I’d argue that all the sexual deviancy has a point. Super powered individuals get psychopathic because they are prevented from seeing non-powered people as humans. In an existence without boundaries or limitations they tend to get stuck in spirals of chasing ever increasing kicks. Power corrupts and super powers super corrupts. As for the republican satire, I find it both funny and on point.

I'm only watching it to see when they will defeat Homelander and the Seven. And I skip all the nasty crap in it.

They get popular and go insane I don’t get it.

Hmm, I tuned out after ep.1 - maybe ep.2 - it was drifting and the pacing was awful. The audience get crash-bang scenes with no import, and lengthy character adjustments with no resolution. Why not just have all that stuff happen between seasons? I think Gen V for me basically revealed how close to Idiocracy-level schlock and "ASSS!" these guys are.

The Comic Book focused on the Supes being sexual deviants, so the original content should be blamed

Before this season the satire was up there with "South Park" because it mocked both sides without alienating anyone. It was never conservative but there were some hilarious gags about corporate virtue signaling.

This season is still working for me, I just think of it as a comedy now, tho I get what you're saying. That said, they've been feeding Homelander Trump lines going back to the early seasons. One of the first one's I noticed was "The best taco salads are served at Vought Towers" which was an old Trump tweet (sub Trump Towers) that was seared into my brain years ago because of how much like satire it felt. The show definitely needs to end tho, you can feel them trying to come up with more arcs by the simple fact they seem to be repeating old ones lol.

Ser Erryk Kain I wouldn't deride superheroes for their "kinks". They all have them. I knew quite a few Kryptonians, and let me tell you, they were some freaky people. I also have it on good authority that Superman & Lois were SUPER, SUPER FREAKY. They did things that would've made Rick James blush......

THE BOYS is about to end. That’s a good thing. GEN V will likely be the SEQUEL series (5 seasons).

Man, the twitter mob does NOT like your takes on The Boyz. The ppl that say "if you don't like, don't watch it" crack me up. How are you gonna decide if you like it or not if you don't watch it??? Plus, that's his freakin job lol. Stay classy, Erik!

i think everyone knows deep down inside that it cant last forever... but i like it and if someone doesnt like it... thats ok too.

The Irony is that this is most probably the most WOKE show to come out in a long time yet it was smartly written so most people did not catch on, That being said I know it easy taking shot at the "red caps" however it needs to be both ways like south park and I find that this show will probably age badly due how close it resembles current day however Anthony Starr has been amazing!

This season is Awesome.

That’s the arc of pretty much every modern series (ie Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Handmaid’s Tale, etc) the middle/later seasons turn into a grift with lazy writing, filler content, shock value, and a crap ending. That’s why I just can’t get into any new series that’s “highly touted”. They almost always go to shit.

You liked Gen V? I got so annoyed in the first episode alone. Period blood girls stepdad (maybe Uncle, didn't really give off Dad vibes) was talking about Jake Paul, than the one chick brought up Pewdiepie. It got annoying quick.

Yeah, we’ll see. First three episodes sucked. Not any more till I gear that there has been a course correction…..but I bet there won’t be, tho I would like to be proven wrong on this.

Thanks!

Kripke has always come off as fake progressive in the same vain as joss Whedon. I mean the man made supernatural how many strong women have been frigid in his shows? He has always been a jerk

While I certainly see your perspective on this, I think the contexts surrounding the two scenes make all the difference. The Deep and Starlight being isolated, the music, etc. vs. the hyperbole and parodic nature of TK's dungeon, the dialogue ("And I just ate asparagus."), the foot tickling (it wasn't something more "invasive"), etc. They're doing their best to tell you, "this isn't dangerous right now," which is often necessary if you want the audience to laugh at dark comedy. Not saying it's fair, or right, but I laughed.