Reality got too dark for satire
Eric Kripke on why The Boys can't keep pace with actual politics: Homelander saying he's God was supposed to be outrageous. Then Trump posted himself as Jesus and the show got outflanked by the real thing.
"It's just really hard to out-satire this world."
He's right. We've crossed into a zone where the president is openly performing autocratic god-king theater and nobody blinks. Satire requires the fiction to be more absurd than reality. That math broke.
Eric Kripke says Donald Trump posting a photo of himself as Jesus ruined the Homelander as God joke in ‘THE BOYS’. “A month ago when we were talking about marketing, I was like, Homelander saying he’s God is so out there. We have to be careful about how we even introduce the idea to the public because they’ll say he’s gone too far and here we are. It’s just really hard to out-satire this world.” (Source: https://www.polygon.com/the-boys-showrunner-trump-jesus-interview/)
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