“The Boys” Season 4 delivers mass quantities of wild plot turns and nerve-blistering suspense.
But one nagging question hangs over the latest episodes of Amazon’s demented superhero series. Is there enough imagination left — on the planet, let alone in this particular writers room — to keep it up?
It feels like we’ve already seen every conceivable riff on the fascist agenda at the heart of the comic book genre and how it relates to corporate controlled, media addled, early 21st Century America. Homelander (Antony Starr), the chemically mutated Superman/Captain America/Donald Trump figure who heads the evil Vought conglomerate’s top-rated supergroup The Seven, has already ravaged and schemed to such horrific extents, isn’t it time he retired to some sort of Phantom Zone? How many more new members with conflicting loyalties can the title’s anti-Vought vigilantes cycle through before it all gets as repetitive as 1970s “Avengers” comics? Are there any more sexual kinks left for the show’s pervs to explore? Can the current event references keep pace with our mad reality, or on the other hand will they jump the shark?
