I mean, the whole point of the show is a critique on fascism.
It’s definitely already outstayed its welcome in the USA.
Antony Starr is glad ‘The Boys’ is ending: “I don’t like seeing things outstay their welcome”
Submitted 2 days ago by Skavau@lemm.ee to Television@lemm.ee
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SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
9point6@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We tried and failed, you’re on your own now
Ledericas@lemm.ee 12 hours ago
looking at supernatural, kripkes other creation. when the 2 new showrunners took over, it became nothing more than fan/slashfiction for fans who becames extremely obsessed with the characthers.
Default_Defect@midwest.social 1 day ago
He’s probably been approached by one too many chuds that worship their idea of Homelander and that think he is his character.
Belgdore@lemm.ee 22 hours ago
He is apparently an asshole based on his bar fighting and how he treats his costars.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Perfectly casted.
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Homelander kills the shows version of “Trump”, then takes complete power. As his first act as president he puts tariffs on the world.
DiaDeLosMuertos@aussie.zone 1 hour ago
I thought that Homelander was the version of trump ?
Lucky_777@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I think you’re right, but this would definitely seal the message. MAGA still doesn’t get the satire.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 2 days ago
As a huge fan of the show im glad it’s ending too. Anymore multiple seasons of resetting the power balance would kill any interest.
piyuv@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s already ran too long imho. Season 3 amounted to nothing.
CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 1 day ago
Yep I totally lost interest a while ago it got so repetitive
Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I lost interest during season 2 because it was just too on the nose and obvious, which is odd given that the Ennis original (which I love dearly) is about as unsubtle as you can get.
The other issue was I felt like they largely threw the anti-corporation themes out of the window in favour of making it a superhero show.
I loved the first season, but the way it was evolving in the second just didn’t sit well with me.
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Looking at you, Grays Anatomy
DigitalDruid@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
I don’t think soap operas are meant to end. General Hospital is on Season 63! GA is just that for another generation.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Damn moreso when you realize they’re all an extension of eachother in spirit. GA rose from the ashes of ER, etc.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 1 day ago
if I see one of the boys thrown backwards into a wall by a supe and be perfectly fine after ONE MORE TIME…
CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Agreed entirely. A show should last only as long as it takes to tell its story. 2-3 seasons is fine.
shalafi@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
limited one season shows
That’s called a “mini series”. :)
And BTW, Shogun was the finest thing I’ve seen in years, maybe ever. My wife and I were drooling for the next episode, week in, week out.
I admit to prejudice. Watched the original mini series many times growing up, read the book three times. My wife’s half Japanese, really seems to dislike Japanese anything (🤷🏻), still loved every second of it.
rishado@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Idk if the new Shogun is a miniseries. I believe they confirmed a season 2 & 3 (unfortunately).
Delphia@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“I dont want to play the Facist supersoldier anymore.”
beejboytyson@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
… play?
Delphia@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Im quite sure he doesnt have eye lasers.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Honestly, it outstayed it’s welcome in the final episode of the first season for me.
I don’t know sense the fuck the producers have against the story, but fucking or off that far was a waste. They could have just made up their own show and not wasted the money getting the title from Ennis, if they were going to fuck with the core motivation of a central character like that.
shalafi@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
lemmy is unusually respectful of differing opinions
Are we talking about the same lemmy?
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Yeah. On average, I usually run into a lot less snark and douchebaggery over differing opinions. When it does pop up it’s usually over hot button issues where you expect heated responses.
Tbh, even the initial few bad responses here weren’t as bad as what I’d see on reddit, but it was just really shocking, especially over a tv show.
I’m used to having disagreements be respectful and thoughtful most of the time, and not just be dismissive. Not that it’s always like that, I’m guilty of going too far on some things myself. I just have way more disagreements end with a friendly note.
PolarKraken@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Good luck with that aneurysm lol, hope it clears itself up
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 day ago
The comics sucked, the show is a big improvement
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Eh, I’m not talking about the quality of the show or comics.
Ennis is pretty well known for having neat ideas and then pissing all over them with hack dialogue and over doing shock scenes. So it wouldn’t be hard at all to improve that kind of stuff. And the show had incredible production value, with vastly improved dialogue overall.
But one of the things that way too many adaptations get wrong is fucking with the characters. Butcher, his whole story is his drive to fuck every super in the ass (metaphorically) because of what happened to his wife.
Then, they undid that entire idea at the end of the first season, but kept trying to make Butcher the same guy, with the same behaviors. That’s a complete failure to make use of the best parts of what Ennis wrote. The characters, and the core ideas, that’s what Ennis is good at.
They had already kinda shifted Huey a good bit via making him american, but they kept his motivation, the core of him. Then they just said “fuck it” and basically mangled Butcher’s entire arc.
Like, why bother paying for the rights if you’re not going to use the good parts of it?
Same thing happened with Preacher. They dumped a ton of money and time into making a slick, well crafted show, but completely undid the characters motivations and personalities in a single scene.
Ennis may be a hack, but fuck, just do something original if you aren’t going to really adapt what matters most.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 day ago
It’s ok to not like a tv show. You don’t have to explain yourself to anybody.
dukepontus@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Its ok not to agree with a comment, you dont have to share your opinion.
IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah, last season wasn’t great. Hopefully it’ll end strong.
dumblederp@aussie.zone 1 day ago
It wont. It’s like squeezing an orange, the first few seasons got all the $juice$ now they’re wringing a dry husk with tired writers. May as well get Matt Parker and Trey Stone in to wrap up the show at this point.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 day ago
May as well get Matt Parker and Trey Stone in to wrap up the show at this point.
That would actually be awesome!
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 22 hours ago
I wish severence would have ended at season 2, exactly the way it did. I’m bracing for dissapointment.
Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 5 hours ago
Or Ted Lasso at season 3. Ugh
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Why? I feel like people are looking for reasons to be disappointed with that show. It’s bizarre.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Because every popular show gets milked to death and executives start interjecting stupid ideas and ruin it. They already had a filler episode in season 2.
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I love the first two seasons of Severance, but even if the third will be bad, it won’t affect my feelings towards the first two.
Unless it’s GoT season 8 levels of bad, but that’s probably not possible.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 18 hours ago
You say that, but sometimes a continuation is so bad that it like goes back in time and somehow taints your memories.
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Yeah, don’t want a supernatural situation going on.
whoisearth@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I mean Sam and Dean could have gone on for another 10 years and I wouldn’t have complained.
Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I always say a show should only run 5 seasons at most, and if it’s very popular to just do the occasional mini series.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 hours ago
Six seasons and a movie
coaxil@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Except sg1 right? :)
Mandarbmax@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
SG1 only ran 5 seasons, season 3 through season 7. Nothing else was real. Just a bad dream.
LMurch@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
Fucking Homelander.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
All for it. I rarely find a show beyond sitcom type comedies that isn’t dissapointing by season 4. 3 seasons of a good show keeps me simultaneously wanting more but also secretly glad that that’s how I’m left feeling. Feel the same way with a really good course at a restaurant.
Itzdan@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
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