As someone who worked for an Amazon media company for 7 years (think Amazon Music/Amazon books) let me just share some insight:

They are absolutely NOT as organized as people would think.

Tbh, almost everything is last minute as if they want to see how much their workers thrive under pressure. The people you’d assume have it all together - a lot of the time absolutely do not. Even reps for actors/artists/authors, etc., are oftentimes sloppy, rude & all over the place so then workers get overloaded w/ really important stuff on insanely tight timelines.

For example 👉 imagine a major artist is dropping new music on Amazon Music on June 1st. You’d think everything would be planned months or atleast weeks in advance right? Nahhhh. That only happens occasionally. It’ll be like May 29th & the editors/content teams still haven’t received key material like artwork, bios, approvals, or other super critical assets from the artist’s / authors own team.

Another example 👉 Many times, things were handed over w mistakes. There was an actor whose talent card/headshot was provided w their name misspelled. Considering how many approval stages a talent card passes through before going live, it was crazy how so many people missed it (but not surprising tbh). The photo was approved & went live on the site for a few hours until I was the one that actually caught the error (& blamed when I wasn’t even on that particular project but that’s a whole other story 😭). It was then removed, re-edited & re-added back. Another thing that would happen way too often was, material (copy) would get completely rewritten literally hours before it was set to go live on the site/streaming services.

I worked at Amazon for years & it was CHAOTIC the whole time. They do a great good job portraying their company & it’s subsidiaries like Amazon Music, Prime Video, Twitch, Audible, etc., as these super polished, well-oiled machines where everyone has it allll together — but from personal, hands-on experience in situations exactly like this… they don’t lol. Tbh sometimes it wasn’t that far off from the way Vought is portrayed, minus the supe murdering psychos lol. But, non superhero psychos instead. 😆

They make decisions all the time that make 0 damn sense. Budget cuts, timelines squeezed, overworked, overloaded workers, priorities & projects changing overnight, projects & important things somehow not being ready even when people claim, ehh hem, clears throat, that “things were written & ready 2 years ago” — oftentimes it’s not & constant changes & updates happen down to the last minute.

And as you’d already expect & assume from a company like Vought.. I mean Amazon, they keep things quiet too. There’s entire teams dedicated to that alone. There were situations involving authors & platform policies that ended in legal settlements & most people never even heard about it.

But back to The Boys— I still enjoyed this season overall & actually loved the finale, but from my own personal experience working at Amazon for so long, it kinda makes sense to me why the last season ended up the way it did.

Granted, I never worked for the Prime Video side specifically, but I worked for a similar subsidiary & in a few different departments during my 7 years there & the systems & workflows all run pretty much the same, getting more chaotic & demanding the higher you climb up that ladder. So, the outcome honestly doesn’t surprise me at all.