Even an assassination-themed finale offers toothless commentary for our fanged-up times.
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Over time, its progressive partisanship curled into smugness, and its ripped-from-the-real-world mimicry doomed the series to anti-climax.
Thats a guarantee, and its a narratively unfulfilling one.
This is what the series started as, after all.
(That this corporate-satire series is solidifying itself on Amazon is surely not lost on anyone.)
It takes an Ask a Manager email and puts it through a nightmare filter.
Those aspects of our American identity are worth analyzing, worth mocking, and worth changing.
This countrys evils arent exclusive to Homelander, andThe Boyswas better when it remembered that.
