Popular Show Adds Disclaimer About ‘Coincidental’ Assassination Attempt After Trump Shooting
Making any show — much less a raunchy, vulgar and hyper-violent one — tackle the subject of political assassinations is always a risky endeavor.
Making any show tackle the subject of political assassinations when one of your characters is an admitted analog to a real-world politician? That seems like an objectively bad idea — and one that Amazon Prime Video has inadvertently waded into.
The streaming platform’s immensely popular superhero show “The Boys” found itself in such a controversy when its season finale, released Thursday, featured a storyline that hewed a little too close to the real-life attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump on Saturday.
Now, most shows would have been able to lean on the excuse that the script was written and conceived a long time before the shooting at a campaign rally in Butler,
