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1.0 out of 5 stars....yeah, they've lost the ducking goat
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2023
Up to episode 8 now.
....yeah, no.
The plot is all over the place.
It's just for shock value now, in ways that aren't, "Oh, that's incredibly disturbing, yet relevant - "
No, it's not relevant. You jump from scenario to scenario and horror scene to horror scene that *could* have been useful if contextualized like in The Boys...
Except its not.
***Spoiler alert***
...I get why Homelander would blame the few Supes were seen trying to kill others - it puts the blame on one, easily-identifiable, easy-to-explain target. He essentially got to pick the story as soon as he showed up, and that character easily has the deviousness and the experience to make it stick the first time.
...but also, I don't care.
The massacre at the end of the episode was entirely pointless. It doesn't make sense in context - Cate would still fear consequences, and she knows she's not much for a physical fight. She'd let the prisoners go, then fade into the background. She just killed her mother figure to prove to her friends that she's on their side - and then immediately goes against them to free a bunch of mentally-ill Supes and then ASSISTs them in the resulting rampage - and for what?
It's like Season 3 of the Boys. Baddies are gonna be bad, because the writers want a bad guy. What, Nazi Stormfront? What, evil mind controller? What, evil Homelander?
Who knew?
There's no nuance, just a CW-like drama where the good guy flips every episode and never gets any credit.
If there are no good guys - just guys out for power or guys out for revenge (like The Boys) - that works.
This doesn't.
This entire show has, so far, entirely lost the goat.