The Boys season 4 finale gets a disclaimer following Trump rally shooting

Jul 18, 2024 11:40 PM - 5 months ago 137548

The Boys has ever reveled successful its lampooning of nan US’s fraught governmental landscape, but pursuing the caller Trump rally shooting, Amazon has retitled nan show’s play 4 finale and added a caller disclaimer stating that nan show is not meant to beryllium a reflection of reality.

Though “Assassination Run” was nan original title of The Boys’ newest section (which dropped today), it is now listed arsenic “Season Four Finale” and opens pinch a informing explaining that nan section “contains scenes of fictional governmental violence” whose similarities to caller real-world events “are wholly coincidental and unintentional.”

Given The Boys’ way grounds of presenting galore of its characters arsenic analogues for existent governmental figures, Amazon’s move to abruptly insist that nan show’s evident parallels to our reality conscionable happened by chance is difficult to return astatine look value. Understandably, nan institution doesn’t want 1 of its buzzier shows to go embroiled successful nan play that’s shaping nan US’s statesmanlike predetermination rhythm aliases beryllium accused of encouraging group to return up arms.

You tin publication a longer connection from The Boys’ creative squad and Sony below.