The popular superhero satire The Boys has always focused on skewering MAGA-inspired villainy, most pointedly through the character of Homelander (Antony Starr), an all-American psychotic with the powers of Superman and more screwy hang-ups—he’s a fragile mama’s boy who loves breast milk, craves adoration, and hates humanity—than can be found in an arena full of right-wing loons.
The Prime Video series’ swan song final season pushes its wacko censure to the extreme, complete with its megalomaniacal Trumpian baddie going literally God-tier insane.
For its fifth and final season, Eric Kripke’s adaptation of Garth Ennis’ comics (Apr. 8) takes as its apparent inspiration those bonkers memes in which Jesus hovers over our current president of the United States, even as it has Homelander repeatedly fume over the nasty viral memes that continue to hurt his boundless ego. A cartoonish rebel yell against homegrown conservative fascism that locates and lampoons the religious underpinnings of chosen-one tyranny—all while slicing and dicing liberals via a steady stream of jabs—The Boys soars wildly to the finish line, its confidence only matched by its craziness.
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