From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

Eric Kripke is quite pleased with the way he wrapped up his Amazon series, The Boys.

He's even more pleased that Elon Musk went on the site, formerly known as Twitter,

to trash the finale of the politically provocative superhero satire.

All I can tell you is thousands and thousands of people watch the boys who wouldn't

have watched it otherwise.

I appreciate the Musk bump and the added attention.

It was nothing but joyful for me.

Musk isn't the only one with issues.

Some of the shows less wealthy fans also didn't care for the finale of the series,

which has Kripke questioning whether those folks understood the show all along.

Eric Deggans talks to Kripke about that and about how the show managed to be pretty

prescient about the current state of the country.

And Kripke addresses whether the boys' franchise, with its multiple spin-offs, is actually

becoming like the superhero genre, it mocks. But first we banter. Stick around. It's the business

from KCRW. I am joined by my partner in banter. Matt Bellini. Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, the 60

minute story that we talked about last week has gotten a lot bigger. I think the phrase,

Enjoy the Bagels, is going to catch on maybe in Hollywood. This is what Nick Bilton, who has now been named the head of 60, producer of 60 Minutes, said after this meeting in which veteran correspondent Scott Pelley

dressed him down in a meeting. It leaked so instantly. People are lying in wait to leak the

bad things that Barry Weiss and now Nick Bilton are doing. In a note to staff after that

dressing down in which Scott Pelley told Nick

Bilton that Barry wasn't there that she is unqualified for her job and he is barely qualified.

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