In the United States, as is well known, fiction productions always want to be careful: warnings at the beginning of episodes are frequent, either to warn that they are works of fiction or to warn viewers of scenes that may make them uncomfortable or even traumatize them. But, as far as the season finale of The BoysAmerican viewers have been confronted with a warning that had to be introduced in recent days due to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump last Saturday, July 13.
In the ending, it seems, the plot is heading towards an assassination attempt on President Singer or Vice President Neuman, the characters played by Jim Beaver and Claudia Doumit. Aware of the parallels with a real tragedy that occurred last weekend, which was an attack on the country’s democratic system, those responsible for the assassination attempt are forced to take a stand against the country’s democratic system. The Boys They wanted to be on the safe side and, in addition to the warning, they published a statement on social media.
“The season finale of The Boys contains scenes of fictional political violence, which some viewers may find disturbing, particularly in light of the injuries and tragic loss of life that occurred during the attempted assassination of former President Trump,” they reported about an episode that had to have its title changed: it was previously called Assassination Run And after the events of Saturday, it is simply Season Four Finale.
“The Boys This is a fictional series that was filmed in 2003 and any similarity of any scene or plot with these real events is a coincidence and not intentional,” Sony Pictures Television, Amazon and the team of producers of the superhero series prefer to justify themselves, who are “strongly opposed to any form of real-world violence.”
“The Boys is a fictional series that was filmed in 2003 and any similarity of any scene or plot with these real events is a coincidence”
This fourth season of The Boys has stood out precisely for the way in which Eric Kripke, the creator, has embraced the more political nature of the series: the series had always criticised the exacerbated capitalism and the implicit racism in American society, but now it has denounced in a more frontal way the most reactionary sector of the country. You only have to see that it has followed a presidential campaign and the tensions between President Singer and Vice President Neuman: the former, opposed to the Vought superheroes, and the latter, at the service of their interests with the intention of turning the United States (even more) into a kind of super dictatorship.
In fact, with this more combative mentality of the scriptwriters, The Boys has earned detractors for various reasons. Among critics, for example, some professionals have complained that the sense of fun has been lost by taking political satire to such a recognizable terrain with respect to our reality, when it had always been equally understood where the shots were going. And, on the other hand, far-right fans have been outraged to see that they were laughing at the most grotesque and reactionary wing of the Trumpists, showing that there were people who still had not understood what it was about. The Boys.
Source: www.lavanguardia.com
