This review will include spoilers for The Boys Season 2, designed for Bisexual Badass Queen Maeve’s storyline, as this will be much a lot more of the recap than an assessment since we can’t undoubtedly with full confidence provide this show a blanket recommendation. (It provides a certain style.) Tread very carefully.
We never ever thought that I would personally ever manage to phone a show about superheroes too genuine but on Season 2 of this Boys, the corporatized, egotistical, overpowered, privileged, entitled, (and, you guessed it, white) supes planning to make America great again hit a touch too close to home in 2020.
The metaphors had been heavy-handed, and quite often they weren’t also metaphors at all (there have been literal nazis included, y’all) however it did extremely clearly highlight the risks of individuals with those attitudes having public platforms.
But we’re not here to speak about Stormfront and Homelander, undoubtedly horrible people whoever lines had been fundamentally quotes from present American leadership. We’re here to speak about Queen Maeve; the bisexual superhero whoever sexuality had been utilized as a gun against her for many of the growing season, making the strongest girl in the field feel little and helpless.
Elena’s first gig this period is really a stint when you look at the medical center for appendicitis. Continue reading “The Boys Season 2 Gets Meta About Lesbian and Bisexual Representation”