Amazon Prime Video has added a disclaimer to “The Boys” season finale condemning political violence following the assassination try towards former President Trump.
“The season finale of ‘The Boys’ accommodates scenes of fictional political violence, which some viewers might discover disturbing, particularly in gentle of the accidents and tragic lack of life sustained in the course of the assassination try on former President Trump,” the disclaimer begins.
Prime Video famous that the most recent season of the violent, superhero satire was filmed in 2023 and any similarities to real-world occasions are “coincidental and unintentional.”
“Amazon, Sony Image Tv and the producers of ‘The Boys’ reject, within the strongest phrases, real-world violence of any variety,” the disclaimer concludes.
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A view of the display screen throughout Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys” Drive-In Premiere & Fan Screening on September 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. ((Photograph by Kevin Winter /Getty Pictures for Amazon Studios))
The episode, initially titled “Assassination Run,” has been renamed. The episode was launched with the brand new title, “The Boys Season 4 Finale.” It options an assassination try towards the present’s president-elect.
Season 5 of “The Boys” would be the present’s closing installment.
Showrunner Eric Kripke has been outspoken about his opposition to Trump, and “The Boys” has been described by critics and followers as an unsubtle allegory criticizing Trumpism and right-wing politics.
“I clearly have a perspective, and I’m not shy about placing that perspective within the present,” Kripke instructed The Hollywood Reporter. “Anybody who needs to name the present ‘woke’ or no matter, that’s OK. Go watch one thing else. However I’m actually not going to tug any punches or apologize for what we’re doing.”
Final Saturday’s assassination try towards Trump that left one particular person lifeless and two others significantly wounded additionally prompted Channel 4 within the UK to tug an episode of “The Simpsons.”
The episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” is from the present’s seventh season and follows Lisa as she makes an attempt to inform Springfield residents the reality about her hometown’s founder. At one level, a regulation enforcement officer will be seen aiming at her as she stands at a podium.
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Former President Trump survived an assassination try final week throughout a Pennsylvania rally. (Trump Marketing campaign Workplace / Handout/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures)
This isn’t the primary time a tv present has been pulled or altered due to real-world occasions.
The Joss Whedon supernatural drama “Buffy the Vampire” postponed two episodes of its third season that concerned faculty violence within the aftermath of the Columbine bloodbath.
The “Hannibal” sequence starring Mads Mikkelsen utterly eliminated its fourth episode following the Sandy Hook capturing. The episode by no means aired on tv however has since been positioned on streaming platforms. The plot concerned a lady who was manipulating children to homicide their households.
