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The visual cuisine for this Monday night is the season finale of The Boys season 4 followed by the early “season 0” of Battlebots due to popular demand.
The Boys is a show based off of a comic that satirized mainstream superhero comics, it has frequent shock/gross-out humor with bombastic, graphic violence. The first few minutes of the first episode of season 1 will give you a general idea of what the show is about. It’s essentially superheroes but with capitalism coupled with contemporary political satire.
Battlebots is a show about people making robots that fight in an arena, it is based off the season 2 My Life as a Teenage Robot episode “Robot Riot.”
8 pm est
content warnings:
Boys:
This episode has references to SA from the previous episodes.
spoiler
A shapeshifter assumes the image of another person and has sex with another character that has experienced SA previously in the season. The victim is briefly berated by their partner for having sex with the shapeshifter.
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This episode has multiple instances of graphic violence and a few scenes involving body horror.
Characters spouse bigoted right wing talking points in this episode and season.
https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/720923
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/parentalguide
https://tankie.tube/w/xgHGuNyvYQWoVKVnh7tVgg
- Frequent graphic violence and excessive gore
- Child abuse
- Multiple mentions of SA, a primary character was assaulted at work in season 1 and the abuser is a recurring character
- Stalking
- Domestic violence
- Gaslighting
- Drugs, alcohol, addiction, and overdose
- Needles
- Death of animals and animal abuse
- A character is implied to have been a pedophile
- Explicit nudity
- Sex
- Objectification of women
- Racism
- Homophobia
- Transphobia
- Slurs
- Body dysmorphia
- Nazi imagery, a superhero was outed as an actual nazi and has supporters in the show
- Antisemitism
- There is a character in this season that spouts bigoted conspiracy theories
- Suicide
- Depictions of ptsd
- Anxiety attacks
- Body horror
- Torture
- Death
- Car crashes
- Gun violence
- Masturbation
- Death of a parent
Battlebots:
I couldn’t find a specific content warning list for the early Battlebot episodes, however it doesn’t seem like there’s anything extreme in them.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4816364/parentalguide
https://tankie.tube/w/t7TiP6t3Qcp44RhnRpKNFS
- Makeshift robots fight each other in an arena
- Mild profanity
- Reference to alcohol
8 pm est
Yeah a lot of the characters in season 4 felt like they had nothing to do compared to season 3.
spoiler
Annie and Huey keep having arguments and then returning to the status quo, Kimiko had something very vague about the Shining Path before returning to the status quo, Frenchie felt guilty and turned himself in before returning to the status quo. You could mostly pluck these characters out of season 3 and put them in the season 4 finale and not much would change. I liked Huey’s arc with his dad, although I don’t like that it brought him to the place of preaching how brave forgiveness is - to a group of people who are trying to stop a fascist coup. Butcher actually did have a good arc, and I enjoyed Homelander a lot more than I did previously. A-Train was actually my surprise favourite character this season, I really liked the direction he went in. He didn’t even get that much screentime but managed to redeem himself after being introduced as everything wrong with superheroes.
I think since season 1 ended the show has been struggling with having real stakes. The status quo of the Boys would usually return by the end of an episode, and there would only be real consequences in season finales. It really feels stretched tbh
Yeah the show should probably have ended in S2. Really feels like they’ve been treading water for 3 seasons.
I think its probably good for the show to have “only” 5 seasons. If they nail the landing in the 5th this should become an alltime classic. I agree with your take on A-Train…im happy what they did with him.