One of my favourite things about this show is how cartoonishly fake the Supes are when they're performing for the public
Just finished rewatching S1 and I keep cracking up at how absurdly hollow the heroes sound whenever they're in front of a crowd. The PR speak, the forced sincerity, the rehearsed catchphrases — it's so over the top that it almost loops back around to being funny rather than unsettling.
What gets me is that the show asks you to believe that the general public genuinely buys this. And yet somehow... it works? Like the writing commits so hard to the bit that you just accept it.
Anyone else find themselves laughing at how unconvincing the public-facing versions of the Supes are? Or is that kind of the point — that people \\\*want\\\* to be fooled so badly they'll believe anything?
Have you never seen the way a real politician or celebrity speaks and how their followers just eat it up?
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Loretah-4562 days ago
+2
In my defense I was not as well versed into politics when I last watched the show. Now I'm older and understand things better and its just surreal how people really eat this up.
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majcher2 days ago
+28
\*gestures wildly around at EVERYTHING\*
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SirChrisJames2 days ago
+30
I think you'll find that the Supes in The Boys are analogs for real life celebrities and politicians. Especially in later seasons, as shit gets dark and dystopian very quickly.
The public in The Boys eats it up because the public in real life eats it up.
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sexandliquor1 day ago
+1
It’s annoyingly sad and frustrating how on the nose it is and constantly predicts how things are going to go considering the show is written and filmed like, awhile ago.
And yet… the current season with them having brainstorming sessions to try to pitch “Homelander is just God now” is also just where we’re at with the current US presidential administration now as well.
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StuffonBookshelfs2 days ago
+10
…not watching much of the news these days, huh.
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Plenty-Inflation-3482 days ago
+5
yeah the way they nail that plastic corporate hero vibe is perfect - reminds me of all those military recruitment commercials i sat through, same exact energy where you know it's all bullshit but people eat it up anyway
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rarely_interacts2 days ago
+5
I’m shocked - SHOCKED! - that superheroes in an over the top satirical show don’t speak like regular people.
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off_by_two2 days ago
+4
The Boys started off as a parody of real life but if anything real life absurdity has caught up and maybe even passed the show
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FinalXevv2 days ago
+3
Literally this week the US made up 8 AI women that were about to be executed by Iran and then Trump fake rescued them, and all of his sheeps are impressed.
If anything The Boys is underselling how stupid people are.
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silverbolt20002 days ago
+4
> What gets me is that the show asks you to believe that the general public genuinely buys this.
Is it really so unbelievable?
You’re talking about a public that genuinely believes Donald Trump is a smart person who cares about them.
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2pacaklypse2 days ago
+2
Person Goes Outside And Discovers Sun
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MajorComrade2 days ago
+3
r/im14andthisisdeep
The general public have varying beliefs and trust in our institutions. The Boys pokes fun at that, in addition to other aspects of western society.
It doesn’t make you enlightened, it just means you have basic media literacy.
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Tobar_the_Gypsy2 days ago
+1
Look at this guy getting so close to understanding the point
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Reasonable-Turn-59402 days ago
+1
A-Train doing the energy drink ad saying "This is im-por-tant" always makes me laugh. Good actors acting as if they're bad actors is always funny to me.
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