The boys: A few problems

The whole audio for kimiko's voice feels very off and dont sound right. Whoever did the audio mix for her lines messed up i think. The quality of it atleast to me was very bad? Sounded like it was recorded off screen in a bad recording studio and they overlayed it with the scene.

I mean, didn't Kimiko say that she watched a lot of TikTok? I feel like her lines and how she acts make sense because of that at least.

The series has had a huge writer turnover. Most of the original writers left after season 3.

They are trying too hard to have some of the comic stuff in there, like Homelander >!f****** soldier boy and the gayness that a lot of the supes had, which like the romans, they didn't really consider it to be "gay" but more of a power thing. it's weird!<. Which doesn't work because they've skipped out on a lot of that throughout the show. And then you have Kimiko talking and her voice not fitting an immigrant who should barely know English and more importantly, the dubbing is way off. Looks like early Schwarzenegger movies. Homelander doesn't feel scary now like he did in S1/2. They've spent so much time with him not killing anyone that it just isn't scary now. Honestly, the whole show is a bit incestuous. It started out as satire about super heroes, has lived long enough to be a joke itself, and is now semi-seriously trying to finish it out. And that doesn't even get into how some of the actors have REALLY changed how they look; MM and Annie look like completely different people compared to the beginning of the show. At least MM has his beard back for this season but he looks like hes been hitting the Ozempic like crazy. Then the plot about putting starlighters into camps, but they aren't doing anything. They just sit around doing nothing in a shitty WW2 style ghetto/holocaust camp. "Freedom sets you free" is a bit on the nose, but whatever. The insidious part about the holocaust was that they killed people, and worked the others to literal death. What's the point of getting all these people together to just let them sit around in camps? They are so bored they are doing their own fight club. Work em, kill em, kill em before sending them to camp, something. These people are the "literal" enemy, but they aren't treating them harsh enough to be taken seriously or credibly as a threat like the Nazis they are trying to pass them off as. Lots of things to take you out of the moment but I've been along this far, I am going to finish it. First two episodes have been 6/10. Only good thing is >!A-trains death and possibly zombie soldier boy!<, without those, it would be a 4/10. It's hard to take the show serious when it is obvious they don't take themselves seriously. The show has no problem with showing guy r*** or disgusting, gross out shit, but it could, and should, have went really dark. Should have been American Auschwitz type shit.

You're right. The Homelander line sounded like it was from a parody.

Honestly super unpopular opinion and want to make it clear Antony Starr is a great actor but Homelander scenes did feel off a little bit at times like the scene of him crying over Soldier Boy. I thought the acting from everybody else was good

They're trying to do a homoerotic element to Homelander but much of it doesn't hit right because its so late in the game. (Some of it hits fine)

I think it's felt that way since S4 and Gen V S1 (a bit less noticeable there due to most of it being a mostly new cast and new locations). With a few exceptions like the Hughie's dad subplot or Homelander at the facility. Not sure why you're getting downvoted so much. It feels like almost a completely different style of writing and a different version of some of these characters compared to S1-3. Homelander feels like a caricature of his own character now so far, almost like he's one of the Supes from the comic universe rather than how he used to feel in the rest of the show. I'm sure that'll change as the season progresses, but still.

Kimiko being able to talk as fluently as she does with the over-the-top cringe lines they gave her is brutal. She spent a year on the run, or being a prisoner, or getting deported (really, that was Vought's solution to her ripping the faces of guards?) to an country where English isn't the first language, or getting her body mutilated and having to put herself back together... And yet she had time to attend therapy, speech therapy and watch a ton of TikTok? Lazy writing.