The Boys: Dirty Business

 "Are Jewish space lasers brainwashing you into joining ther shuls?"

The above isn't the only appropriated quote from America's far right- we also have that old "legitimate rape" line and talk of a total ban on abortion, heavily dog whistled white supremacism and pushing of an oligarchy where the super rich can do what they like without regulation. It's all perfectly judged satire, highly appropriate in a week where the boy Drumpf said the quiet part out loud.

I've no intention of recounting all the myriad plot threads that you get in late season episodes of The Boys: there's a lot going on here. But the satire is the point. So is the hypocrisy. Hence the fact that these social conservatives have a BDSM dungeon, and we get a scene at once hilarious and horrifying, where Hughie, undercover as a very interesting riff on Spider-Man, is put in the situation of not knowing the safe word for the person he's supposed to be. Literally, ouch. Yet this all turns truly nightmaring.

I love the Batman parallels, too- Tek Knight is blatantly a Batman analogue, with an old money background, a masion and a "Tek Cave". Yet he's plotting to build internment camps... and his Alfred hates his guts.

Then there's the revelation about Butcher... Kessler is as much a hallucination as Becca, the devil and angel on his shoulder, respectively. Is he really going to engineer a virus for supe genocide...?

But even that pales beside the revelation of exactly what Firecracker is willing to do for Homelander. Wow. I mean, this is a blog, but words fail me. Exquisite, outrageous television that perhaps does more than any other art to show the true existential threat of the American Republican party to everything we hold dear.