We have to talk about something that the boys on Amazon Prime does very well.

Jeremy, we're going to talk about genre shows, especially like the boys

today, but the boys is back for its final season. And I want to ask you, why does a show like

the boys, which is about superheroes and violence and all kinds of skeevy stuff, sort of help

us perceive the real world better than shows actually set in the real world.

What do you think is that special sauce as the boys have? Because I think a show like Battle

Star Galactica was very similar. A Battleser Galactica was on the air. It was very much like

seeing a robot version of the War on Terror. But what is that special sauce that the boys has?

Well, I personally think that, and I'm sure I'm maybe going to explain this poorly,

but I think the layer of something on top of a similar situation activates your empathy,

in a sense. Like you can look through the layer and be like, oh, that's me or that's us in a way that

sometimes, you know, we're surrounded by me and us all the rest of the time.

We don't necessarily see things as they are, but then when you get to look through

it through another lens, there's a real specific example from the boys, one of the most

recent episodes. Bring it out. That had that for me. Whenever we see the TikTok videos,

we see like a montage of TikTok. And I was like, this is what people would do. This is how people would be reacting to this. There would be, you know, a lip sync of homelander's, you know, airplane video type of, like that is how people would react to that. It would become like a trending sound. Yes. Yes. And then it's like, well, because we're already doing it.

Mm-hmm.

You know what I mean?

We live in that world. We live in that world.

We don't have these extraordinary circumstances and, you know, demigods and all of that

type of stuff.

But like, we're here already.

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