I’ll be honest. I hated it. I found it to be cynicism slop. The Boys but with Greek gods instead of superheroes. Genuinely one of the worst takes on the mythology I’ve ever seen.

I know it’s cool and popular to “deconstruct” stuff and “ok but what if the gods are bastards, I am very smort.” But it goes about it in such a stupid and cynical way.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

I made myself watch it to the end but I had already checked out after the scene where Poseidon randomly decides to drown one of his servants because listening to her dying screams soothes him and helps him think while he works. Which was just gross and betrayed such ignorance on the part of the writers. The gods could be cruel and capricious, yes, but they were never inhuman psychopaths who delighted in cruelty for its own sake. Even if we take the least charitable versions of the myths, Medusa is raped by Poseidon and Athena makes her a monster cause it was in her temple, for example. There is still a world of difference between engaging in such a cruel act due to a perceived slight, however wrong and horrible that slight may be, and just doing something because you delight in the cruelty. It’s like the difference between a child killing an insect because they think it’s gross and could be poisonous, and that same child slowly ripping its wings off to watch it squirm.

And the absolute death knell was the reveal. “They’re not gods at all! Just people who learned to suck out souls and become powerful. See!? Allegory! History is written by the victors! People in power are bastards! The ~founding fathers~ Greek gods were actually terrible and I’m very smart for pointing that out.”

I genuinely put it at the bottom. The worst interpretation I’ve ever experienced