Season One WAS AMAZING 8.5/10 Gritty, brutal and punk. Was great, like a more fleshed out Watchman series without that gross bargain bin feel to it like 99% of Amazon Prime Video stuff has. Amazing characters, great actors all around. Homelander especially who can go from Icon of Justice to terrifying sociopath in an instant. It was great, very promising. Understandable. NO REAL WORLD POLITICS in there, just IN-UNIVERSE politics. TIMELESS.

Season 2 7/10 OKAY, someone's starting to get too high off their own petard and now hijacking this show for their own political soapbox but it still is 70% show 30% CURRENT THING politics, not offensive, noticeable but not offensive and still somewhat enjoyable.

Season 3 4/10 Now they're just drunk with their influence and good will they garnered for the show. It's now 50% The Boys world a la the comics, and 50% REAL WORLD issues treated with the poise and grace of a wrecking ball. A Train has always been the annoying token character and at first they hid that fact, and it made some sense in the beginning. BUT THEN season 2 and 3 they removed the slight depth he had built up in Season 1 by the end and made him 100% political/social issue prop. Sanded all that depth down til it was perfectly flat and 2D.

The 'BLM' episodes were so blatantly offensive, inaccurate and borderline inciting. Then again you remember who used to own Amazon, now owns the Washington Post, which has lost countless defamation cases, against children even in the past 6 years, so makes sense. Then there was the continuation of the whole "Nazi" plot that was from the previous season which again was only in there for "THE MESSAGE" purpose. Just seems like everyone's character except Quaid was sanded down to be super 2-dimensional, and maybe Homelander.

I know there's two episodes left this season, but I don't see how they redeem this show. You took Starlight who was a great 3D badass woman and neutered her this season, why? HUEY that's his, comes into his own and kind of makes her redundant, another thing happens and shackles her even more. There better be a hell of a redemption arch for her by the end of this season, since currently I haven't seen a strong female character done this dirty since Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn (which is not her fault, I think she's a great Harley, they just write her terribly, a character that in the animated series was a DOCTOR of PSYCHIATRY, one of the best in the COUNTRY).

Conclusion: DROP THE REAL WORLD POLITICS FROM THE SHOW, it will age this and not in a flattering manner. The writers aren't talented enough to treat serious sociol-political issues in a realistic light, or with the care they deserve. THE BLM episodes cartooned those events doing a disservice to both sides. BUT TO be expected when Seth Rogen, I laugh at stab victims who aren't on the same political side as me, even if they're minorities. Season 3 is at its best when it's dealing with ONLY IN-UNIVERSE topics. Like the change in power dynamics at Vought. That stuff was great, the stuff with A-Train comes off as minstrel show-like. Stick with the fantasy world of The Boys, and leave real world issues out of it. Since I don't doubt that next year you'll hamfist a ROE V WADE plot line in the show that won't make sense come off super forced, and once again, MIRE a show that started out AMAZINGLY.