Ryan Looney

compilation of rocky saying “amaze amaze amaze” for my enjoyment

The death penalty should be abolished, but anyone who’s done their homework on this knows a firing squad is more humane than lethal injection.

Gen V fans can be so dumb man 😭, no Marie is not going to kill Homelander, nor should she, that would be what we in the business call bad writing.

I think some people are missing the point. It's not even simply that "person dies not getting care = murder" Some insurance companies and their leadership have a deliberate strategy to simply not pay for care, under the calculation that they can wait until the patient dies, and thus not have to pay. This deliberate strategy IS social murder.

2000s TV feels better than anything streaming makes because 22-episode seasons were subsidized by a business model that no longer exists. Network TV ran on syndication economics. A show had to hit 88 to 100 episodes before it could be "stripped": sold to cable stations that aired it 5 days a week for 20 weeks without a single repeat. Four seasons of 22 episodes each landed at 88 exactly. Seinfeld, Friends, The Office, Grey's Anatomy, Law & Order, CSI. Every one was engineered to cross that threshold because the real money lived on the other side of it. A show that made syndication cleared the initial network license fee multiple times over in back-end revenue. Friends ran 236 episodes and still generates an estimated $1 billion per year for Warner Bros, two decades after the finale. Jerry Seinfeld is nearly a billionaire because of 180 episodes of half-hour television shot between 1989 and 1998. The 22-episode format forced "filler" episodes. The bottle episode. The beach episode. The holiday episode. The one where nothing happens and the characters just sit in an apartment. These are the episodes that built parasocial attachment. Dinner Party from The Office. The Constant from Lost. Pine Barrens from The Sopranos. Nothing happens in any of them. They're why people still talk about the show 20 years later. Streaming killed this in two moves. Netflix, Max, and Apple pay per-episode production budgets with no syndication upside because they ARE the endpoint. And the binge model means viewers finish a season in three days whether it's 8 episodes or 22, so there's no incentive to keep a cast employed for nine months to make the long version. Cheaper to ship 8, market it as a "prestige limited series," and move the showrunner to the next project. The result: every streaming season has to advance plot every episode because there's no room for anything else. No breather. No character development. No filler that turns into the best episode of the series. The math won't allow it. The end state is already on the board. As of 2024, zero American series originally made for streaming has reached 100 episodes. In 50 years of television, the milestone that defined what a "show" even was got erased in one decade. The 100-episode threshold is gone. So is the kind of show it produced.

I’m not gonna lie I thought you were an orphan who watched his parents get gunned down like Batman

Prime cancelled this because of viewership. No other reason. They’d love to have 20 the boys shows running at the same time if it made them money to do so. Many of you have no idea how tv works and shouldn’t be commenting.

@catedvnlap Vought: Rising has not been confirmed for two seasons. All they said was that we have ideas about where they could go later. They said that about Gen V too. Gen V was basically just mid seasons of The Boys but Vought: Rising has a greater chance to stand out as its own show.

i really can’t believe that’s how cate dunlap’s story ends…??? we can get the racist nazi show for “multiple seasons” but you can’t even give your current show a proper ending?

seeing the horror community and the comic book community unite over this one image is incredible

rip gen v thanks for this iconic scene

there’s genuinely no point of there being another season of this once The Boys ends. this show served to boost the main storyline, it doesn’t matter as it’s own entity to anyone really lmao

Post credits scene we hear “I’m putting together a team” before Jeffrey Epstein walks out of the shadows

The fact that they’re married makes this so much funnier

how exactly does a critic “lose” bc audiences like a movie? that happens all the time. it’s not our job to stop people from seeing bad movies. all we do is write a review for a flat rate. we don’t get more for pans or less for raves. no one is lying and everyone should grow up.

“Is he out of women?” is the perfect response.

black smoke. that means they haven’t yet chosen a new Jeffrey Epstein.

Ms. Rachel was included in the top 10 list of antisemites of the year because of this post.

“Choppelganger”

born to be a hater but forced to understand where you’re coming from