The boys
I think watching the boys when it came out was a very different experience, especially with the political stuff.
It definitely is fatiguing, no argument there. But often there were things in the show that happened or were shown at a scale that hadn’t happened in the real world yet.
It was less fatiguing at the time because it was satirically hyperbolic, but as things got worse, it closer aligned with the truth.
It feels “too on the nose” because at the time it was highly exaggerated.
They definitely leaned on it. They got lost in that perspective of the show, and put it over the character driven narratives that made the show consistently digestible.
The last season so far has been better in some areas, though the ending could entirely decontextualize everything i’ve liked about it.
Kripke has a history of forgetting what kind of show he’s writing and then falling back on what worked in previous seasons. Ide call it a bad process if it didn’t shit “my children and their children’s children will never not go to college” wealth.
I don’t think its as bad as people make it out to be, its honestly coming down to the wire with only a few episodes left in the final season.
I’m sensitive to bad endings, when I talk about game of thrones my knee tingles where the shrapnel hit.
Supernatural is another one, its my comfort show (i’m a dude) it is not a good show by any metric outside of the dollar bill. Character writing that could grow the grinch’s heart, and a plot that makes you want to chew through your tongue because it might be faster than reaching for the remote.
Kripke can write a season one, he can manage a season 2-5, but my God his late game is abysmal. He just stops playing to his potential and falls back on fundamentals which slowly suffocates his shows.