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As 'The Boys' Franchise Grows Eric Kripke Is Terrified of Becoming "The Thing We’ve Been Satirizing for Five Years" (collider.com)
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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

and all the characters moral base were so ugly their actions so contrived to ellicit a negative response

The show holds a mirror to Republicans and corporate America, so yeah. Even then, hardly any of the characters are actually just evil. They're a product of their environment. I won't go into details in case someone hasn't watched it all yet, but even the most idealistic supes were broken down by institutional rot like lies and coercion.

I couldn't get into it's always sunny in Philadelphia because every character is a terrible person. But then I realized that's the point. They all suck and they all deserve whatever horrible things happen to them (except maybe Charlie, he's the purest of heart and dumbest of ass). Once I stopped trying to find someone to identify with and root for, the show became amazing.