The quest to create the perfect human using secret methods is as old as time - Hitler invented cocaine in his efforts to create a super human military. I normally like reading reviews but most here are, not surprisingly, from a very young crowd who mainly see this as a new twist on the super hero theme. All in all, it's a well done fantasy with great attention to detail right down to the cheap gaudy costumes, dramatization of the idiotic way the public reacts to celebrities, how celebrities control the media, and how the giant corporations control politics. It's very graphic & violent w/fetish situations. The characters are people we get to know and have an investment in even if we don't necessarily like them. Lots of interesting characters, situations, & surprises. It's dark but humorous although not in the black humor genre. I haven't gotten to S3 yet so the many saying the series bends to the woke theme at that point, I haven't experienced. But so far it's more of a lens at how rediculous the far end of each narrative is. All I can say on that is, anyone who sees Homelander as a rep of the Republicans had an extremely warped sense of what the Republicans actually stand for. But I guarantee many libs watching think that's exactly what they stand for. But I see this as more of an extreme caraciture of how the media interprets ideals, and in that sense it's intended as a sad comment on those who buy into their hype.