Ephemeris of the Mind (Show Review) The Boys - Season 2
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Girls get it done.
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Review
The second season sees the struggle between the superheroes and the band of vigilantes escalated to a whole new level; Butcher has gone missing and Hughie and the rest of the team are in hiding from authorities. The season continues the story from Season 1 and also revisits the history of The Boys universe.
The newest member of the Seven, Stormfront, is one of the best supervillains ever portrayed; she's evil yet cunning and manipulative, even overshadowing Homelander. As with the first season, many of the main themes in second season are relatable to our own reality. There's the idea of racism and xenophobia, both in terms of skin colour and superhuman abilities. There's the idea of political radicalization, driven both by an echo chamber effect perpetuated by both traditional and social media. Perhaps my favourite theme, and one which the show did an excellent job portraying, is the superficial commercialization of LQBTQ+ rights and feminism. Sure the portrayal in the show is designed to be exaggerated and funny, but it's not too far off from what we can observe in our own reality.
As with the first season, the second season also only glosses over the symptoms of these themes in a cursory manner, but still, it was interesting to observe amny of the events occuring in our reality, but exaggerated and taken to a whole new level.
Another part of the show I really enjoyed is the supplementary information supplied by X-Ray in Prime Video. There were many tidbits of information on the process of filming the series, as well as on different backgrounds of characters and the world; the background information adds much to the immersion of the show.
Conclusion
The story gets taken to a whole new level but its somehow still relatable to our real world.