#Girls get it done the boys full
Always stopping shy of revealing her full self, Stormfront in the show gains support and popularity for her stance on keeping the US safe through racial supremacy.
It is through Stormfront’s rise that Season 2 of The Boys has also tackles the acceptable face of prejudice and bigotry in Trump’s America. Stormfront, on the other hand, is a Nazi.
Their real struggles are not the ones being celebrated or praised. Out of the spotlight Maeve is feeling disenchanted and trapped and Starlight is actively fighting against Vought at great risk to herself. I’m not going to condemn Marvel and DC for putting strong female role models out there and I think those films are great but it does raise some interesting points about this and the disconnect between life and the movies. All of this says something about films like Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel in the real world and references the fact that no film company has yet given us a gay superhero but asks if they did would this be anymore of a reflection of real women? Maeve is actually bi-sexual but is told this doesn’t sit as well with the public. In the case of Maeve who was outed, her sexuality has been marketed too with her lesbianism becoming a brand. Concentrating on Queen Maeve, Starlight and new hero Stormfront we have seen feminism being sold as a product while each of these characters has shown different strength behind the scenes. The big message of Vought International, the company that owns and promotes superheroes in the show, has been ‘Girls get it done’. We’ll come back to the first of these shortly but first let’s think about the latter and the way it plays with ideas of feminism. What it has gained is a better handle on its social commentary, making more of a statement about the current situation in America highlighting cultural fascism and mocking conscious, marketable liberalism. Mostly it has reined in the ultra-violence (which seemed to be trying too hard to shock on the page), despite an opening scene that seemed to suggest it would be doing the opposite, but it has lost none of its audacious boldness. Season 1 actually had me gripped with its story, characterisation and unpredictability but Season 2 has really stepped things up and become enthralling viewing. I’d read The Boys comic when it came out and didn’t really like it but was still curious to see how it would translate to screen.
#Girls get it done the boys series
All of these series have strong female characters in, as (despite its title) does the show that has prompted me to put fingers to keys now. Also, and to prove that I don’t just watch shows with robots in them, I loved last year’s Watchmen, Killing Eve still has moments of brilliance and Fleabag is a work of genius. I’ve posted on Buffy, Doctor Who and Westworld before and in terms of what I’ve been watching recently, I’ve enjoyed the two new Star Trek shows, Picard and Discovery, as well as The Umbrella Academy and Agents of Shield. I mean I look at television, of course I do, but what I mean is that I rarely write about it. I spend a fair amount of time searching out and discussing positive representations of women in film but I don’t often look at television.
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