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The Boys Hits An All-Time Low On Rotten Tomatoes – But There's More To This Story Than Meets The Eye

The Boys season 4 has an unusually low Rotten Tomatoes audience score, but it seems to be largely the result of review bombing.

The central figure of "The Boys" is the Superman-like character Homelander (Antony Starr), a villainous egotist who hates humanity and can barely contain his contempt as he treks out into the world to "do good deeds." The new season features a group of conspiracy mongers that are very much meant to mirror QAnon, while a new character called Firecracker (Valorie Curry) is a near-fascist a-hole clearly modeled after certain figures one might see on Fox News. Once it is low, those same people can use the deflated number as hard evidence that broad audiences hate shows with anti-Right political messaging, and that professional critics are out of touch and shouldn't be trusted.

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