The story seems to be focused more on the teen drama aspect rather than some grander narrative like The Boys. Though there is this backdrop narrative centering around the teens finding answers to some secret experimentation program in their school, it's put more on the backburner to focus on the fact these are still stupid kids making their way through life. Put plainly, imo, it's very boring as it tries desperately to make you care about these characters through emotional teen drama and heartfelt conversations that you'd imagine two aspiring tik tok stars to have. "Like... the world is soooo cruel, ya know girl?", "Yeah forreals... I just wonder like... if there's a life after this and stuff. Are we more than ourselves, ya knoooow?" Crap like that. I feel like a lot of young teens will like this show and perhaps that's the target audience, despite the very grotesque scenes lol.

Speaking of which, a lot of the gore, sex, vulgarity etc seems like it's there more for shock value than anything else. Imo, The Boys franchise is starting to suffer from the same superhero fatigue effect when it comes to its shock value gore scenes. They just seem to be trying too hard to shove something in your face every 10 minutes that supposedly will make you go, "OH MUH GOSH!" But... idk, I've just come to find it silly at this point. It's so over the top, it almost seems desperate on the writer's part. Early GoT only utilized gore to serve its narrative purpose when appropriate with the story leading into the situation appropriately. Most of the stuff here is just oddly thrown in there to make it as gory and grotesque as possible, when it's obvious there were other ways the situation could've been conveyed or directed without needing to do some over the top dramatic gore / sexual shock value scene. All and all, I'm just left with the feeling that if you took away all the 18+ shock value scenes, you'd have a mid CW superhero show focused on boring teens.