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‘The Boys’ by no means pulls punches. However its creator fears a ‘cooling impact’ on political TV
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‘The Boys’ by no means pulls punches. However its creator fears a ‘cooling impact’ on political TV

Last updated: June 17, 2025 11:51 am
Editorial Board Published June 17, 2025
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“The Boys” is thought for chest-bursting tentacles, shape-shifters who mattress your boyfriend and cruel satire of capitalist extra and corporate-controlled media.

However final yr, Season 4 of the Prime Video sequence set its sights on a brand new goal in its evolution from comic-book adaptation to hot-button must-see: politics. Set throughout a presidential election cycle that eerily mirrored the one happening in the true world, the present’s metaphorical relevance soared to an all-time excessive.

“Despite all the sex and violence and madness, we take a lot of pride in, maybe, being the most current show on TV right now,” showrunner Eric Kripke says on a Zoom name from Toronto, the place “The Boys’” fifth and closing season is in manufacturing. “You’re not really expecting a superhero show to have the vibe of ‘Veep.’ It’s just another way that we try to be unexpected.”

Sudden but unusually prescient. As an election that can decide the destiny of democracy looms, the season particulars the megalomaniacal Homelander’s schemes to realize political energy to match his Superman-like skills. There’s one thing Elon Musk-like about how essentially the most highly effective man on Earth desires to make himself — and Vought Worldwide, the media/chemical/protection company he heads — America’s governing oligarch.

There are different parts we’d affiliate with the present administration sprinkled all through the season too. A Vought community tries to show a “Sesame Street”-style present into fascist propaganda. Collectible Homelander NFTs are proposed. Masked brokers seize dissidents off the streets.

All coincidental, contemplating scripts are written lengthy earlier than the ultimate product debuts.

“Sometimes we joke, a little unsettlingly, that we’re Satan’s Writers’ Room,” Kripke says with amusing. “But because we’re writing about what we view as societal problems, the unfortunate truth is these things were problems two years ago when we wrote them and they’ll be ongoing until we really figure out how to get a handle on a lot of this and maybe stop trusting the people in power quite so blindly.”

The mightiest of Vought’s ultra-marketed superstars, Homelander, performed by Antony Starr, is believed by many on this planet of “The Boys” to be America’s biggest hero; in actuality, he’s an oversensitive, egotistical demagogue. Seemingly invincible, he tends to win regardless of setbacks which may destroy a lesser being. However Starr insists he doesn’t mannequin the character on President Trump. A lot.

“Not specifically,” the blond, square-jawed New Zealander says throughout the identical Zoom interview. “I’m an equal-opportunity poacher. I’ve taken from a lot of different people. Last season, the idea was really teased about Homelander being like a Caesar. If you dip not far back into history, there are just so many people to choose from.

“What I have found about using one specific person for any character — especially with someone like this — is it doesn’t work,” Starr continues. “You get a two-dimensional portrayal. So, Homelander is a conglomerate of tyrants.”

“The Boys” is extra expressly political than ever in Season 4.

(Jan Thijs / Prime Video)

In any case, Homelander, in contrast to the president, craves breast milk, collects his grey hairs and tears individuals’s torsos aside. Though Kripke has described him as analogous to Trump up to now, he notes that Starr brings out points of the character that make him his personal man.

“I don’t think Homelander is sympathetic, but you can empathize with him,” the showrunner says. “That’s the magic trick that Antony pulls off. Homelander sees himself as so much better and bigger than human, and yet he’s inescapably human. That conflict, I think, is driving him slowly insane.

“But he’s authoritarian in general,” Kripke admits. “Obviously, things are happening in the particular country I live in that I respond to. This is a reflection of the things we see and the writers are scared of. What we found early on about the superheroes in this world is there’s this interesting intersection of fascism and celebrity. It’s a unique yet very current notion — not just in the States but all over the world — how people are using the power of celebrity to advance authoritarian ideas.”

With studios backtracking on variety initiatives and media magnates like Jeff Bezos — who owns the Washington Put up in addition to Amazon — reticent to seek out themselves on the fallacious finish of the president’s bully pulpit, considerations that there could also be strain to ease off on “The Boys’” scathing satire appear applicable.

Kripke says no.

“There’s been a total of zero notes about pulling our punches or about making things less political or less savage,” he reveals. “The various powers that be have been really great about it. I think they know that we’d just do it anyway, so why bother?

“Look, not about this particular show, but I’m certainly worried about a cooling effect when, now more than ever, you need people in the back of the classroom throwing spitballs,” Kripke cautions. “That’s not just healthy, that’s vital. It’s really important that people who can thumb their nose at it don’t get scared.”

And although he leaves the politics to the writers’ room, the person who performs Homelander understands that “The Boys’” daring perspective is what’s made it so compelling.

“I think actors are some of the worst people to listen to for political advice, especially ones from New Zealand,” Starr says. “But I will say the passion that our writers clearly put into what they’re doing, the care and the love that they have for their country, for what’s happening socially and politically, has a broad impact. We all feel like we’re part of a machine that has something to say.

“It’s a big show in every way and its message is bigger: Never pull punches. Regardless [of] whether you agree or disagree, at least we are part of a show that’s putting its neck on the line and taking risks across the board, from performance to thematics to commentary.”

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