A rogue Billy Butcher (Karl City) killing the vice chairman and Homelander performing what successfully quantities to a coup are moderately excessive examples of a present’s themes flying slightly bit too near the real-life assassination try of a former president. Even so, it’s price noting that Amazon isn’t the one firm that’s needed to make last-minute programming adjustments after information of the Pennsylvania taking pictures broke.
In the U.Ok., the Channel 4 TV community determined to take away “The Simpsons” episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” from its July 14 lineup. The episode options at least two awkward moments which can be just a bit too much like the Trump assassination try. First, Springfield founder Jebediah Springfield (Harry Shearer) makes an attempt to kill George Washington, after which a sniper almost shoots Lisa Simpson (Yardley Smith) onstage. Along with this, funding firm BlackRock pulled a TV business that Trump’s tried assailant, Thomas Matthew Crooks, occurred to look in.
Whereas Amazon isn’t the one one enjoying it protected within the wake of the July 13 taking pictures try, “The Boys” could also be extra brazenly intertwined with commentary on Trump and his ongoing political legacy than some other present. In reality, showrunner Eric Kripke has made it clear that the previous president is likely one of the present’s main targets. “[Homelander’s] points simply occurred to replicate the man who, it’s simply nonetheless surreal to say it, was f****** president of the USA,” Kripke informed Rolling Stone in 2022. “And it’s an even bigger subject than simply Trump. The extra terrible public figures act, the extra followers they appear to be getting. That’s a phenomenon that we needed to discover, that Homelander is realizing that he can truly present them who he actually is and so they’ll love him for it.”
