Season Four of Prime’s dark superhero satire, The Boys, began with one obvious real-life echo —the show’s designated Donald Trump analogue, Homelander, faced a criminal trial — and ended Thursday with another one that accidentally ended up hitting way too close to home. Mere days after the actual, unsuccessful assassination …
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B ehind a heavy steel door, inside the Los Angeles headquarters of the sixth-largest company in the world, television’s most terrifying villain is wincing and shifting in his chair. His ass hurts. During a trip to Mexico last week, Antony Starr, the New Zealand-born actor who plays Homelander on Prime’s …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Eric Kripke, showrunner of Prime’s much-loved drama The Boys — which offers dark societal commentary via a world filled with superheroes —has always been coy about how many …
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