The Boys has just announced the end of the recordings of its highly anticipated third season. But while the premiere of the new chapters arrives, the series has done its own thing. In a campaign of black humor in the best style of his argument, the production was dedicated in the last week to parody the Emmy nominees. A brilliant strategy that allowed the show, with some nominations in tow, also to remember that it is more than just a good television show.
One day before this year’s 73rd Emmy Awards ceremony, The Boys He decided to live up to his reputation for being incorrigible. With its usual sense of satire, the show was dedicated to parody Disney + and also several of the series nominated for the awards. This is a metafiction game that includes announcing that all shows will be broadcast on Vought +, Vought International’s streaming channel.
Among the series parodied by The Boys, it’s found Her Deepness, Homelander: Brightest Night, Run Yourself Thin, Maeve of Easttown and Love, Sausage. As if that wasn’t enough, it was announced on the official Vought International Twitter account that each show won multiple “Supie” awards. In the Universe of the series, the Vought group of companies is a mix of sinister corporation and an image sales conglomerate. And indeed, the posters seem to sum up that haunting vision of a sinister large company, capable of trading with heroes of dubious reputations.
You can check out several of the parodies below:
On The Boys, Vought creates movies and shows similar to the Marvel Cinematic Universe by following “heroes” in various heroic situations. Of course, it is a form of refined manipulation and a way to keep the world’s attention on the Super. The Emmys parody is a bold and brilliant step in demonstrating the way the show looks at its proposition.
‘The Boys’, the cape, the hero, the secret
During the last few months, the favoritism around The Boys has grown as some details of its third season are leaked. For now it has transpired that the program will bring to television one of the most controversial points of its paper version. That, along with the addition of several new characters, has turned the wait for the new episodes into an unusual television event.
The Emmy award appeared to pay tribute to the phenomenon. This year, The Boys was nominated for Best Drama Series and Best Drama Series Screenplay for the episode “What I Know.” And although he lost in both categories, the mere act of honoring a series based on an especially violent comic book marks a milestone on television. In fact, The Boys has broken several of the usual parameters of the Emmy in terms of nominations. Not only is it not a series away from the usual genres, but also a social criticism with particularly harsh content.
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Of course, season 3 has the complicated commitment to maintain the level of quality, controversy and plot complexity raised so far. Both the campaign during the Emmys, as well as the series of shorts shared on social networks in recent weeks, point out that The Boys have high ambitions. The most striking of the latter was The Boys: Vought News Network, in which the Marketing industry in the real world is parodied.
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys It was created by Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and showrunner Eric Kripke. The series is a satirical version of a world where superheroes exist and have the status of starmedia superheroes. Its first two seasons follow Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the eponymous boys as they attempt to expose the corrupt “Supes,” Compound V and Vought International.