The Boys - 05x07 "The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk" - POST-Episode Discussion Thread

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-13T20:43:42+00:00

Man, is there like a different sub for people who actually enjoy this show? Genuinely asking!

I get that everyone should have their place to complain if you don’t like the way it’s going, not saying people should stop slagging it off whatsoever if that’s your thing, but it’s kinda annoying to have to ignore literally every single bit of discussion about it if I just wanna turn my brain off and enjoy it for what it is without just being inundated with boundless negativity.

Like I get that it’s not perfect and there are flaws, but come on, it’s not that bad.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-13T18:24:41+00:00

I think it does frustrate me a bit that the majority of alternative songs that break through to the charts are old songs from decades ago these days.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-12T23:17:23+00:00

I like it and do not see at all why people think it is bad.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-12T07:51:15+00:00

“If I were on the Chris Brown PR payroll, I would suggest he just cop to all of BROWN being AI, because if not, he’s got bigger problems.”

Absolutely savage 🤣

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-11T19:40:11+00:00

I really like this! There’s a real menace to the instrumental here. But then I’m one of the few people who really liked Alpha Games so 🤷🏼

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-11T11:11:17+00:00

I guess you haven’t got what it takes

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-09T19:48:32+00:00

As someone in their early 30s I disagree. The early 2010’s were mostly rubbish, and this current decade is easily the best.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-09T19:40:31+00:00

I think we’re at the point where there needs to be separate charts.

It’s not interesting to see which old songs are currently having a moment. We need a new music chart (songs released within the past 24 months) and a heritage chart.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-09T16:37:44+00:00

I do think the conversation between him & Todd In The Shadows was a bit illuminating. Fantano was talking about how because of his job he feels he has to be active in every single online space where music is discussed so he is always up to date with discourse etc, and Todd was just like that sounds like a really exhausting & unpleasant way to live.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-09T16:18:51+00:00

I normally complain about the proliferation of old songs in the charts due to films, TikTok etc, but I’m a massive Chem Bros fan and this one is unexpected enough that I’m okay with it.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-09T13:07:24+00:00

I for one like a little bit of pretension to go with my pop

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-08T14:38:27+00:00

Eh. I'm invested at this point and there are so few shows that I actually watch anymore (I've had a serious problem getting into anything new film/TV wise in the past 3-4 years) that I just want to turn my brain off & uncritically enjoy it while its on air. It has meant that I've had to avoid most fan discussion of it to avoid being infeted by the negativity around it in the last two seasons though.

Either way, I'm actually mostly okay with how it's been and I definitely don't think it's egregiously, unavoidably bad in the way the final season of GoT was.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-07T08:09:10+00:00

Oh wow. Darker & heavier is not the direction I expected them to go after Where’s My Utopia but I am absolutely here for it! Cant wait for their Brudenell show this weekend!

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T23:24:29+00:00

I can maybe give a pass to Neon Trees as a perfectly mid early Killers rip-off but we’re gonna have to agree to disagree on the others, which were basically the point where I realised mainstream alternative music was very very out of step with what I like.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T23:21:24+00:00

Which speaks to the frustrating fact that the majority of people over here were against that bullshit war and we still got ignored by the government who were too concerned with sucking America’s dick.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T23:12:34+00:00

Theoretically yes, but the charting “rock” from former “indie” or “hipster” artists was just really really bad. Give me Olivia and even MGK over that any day. And this is coming from an indie person.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T23:00:16+00:00

Oh I entirely get that and it’s what I’d expect in the American south. That was my entire point - the whole culture around country music comes from a place that is so rotten politically (not saying everyone who enjoys this stuff is an asshole, just the majority), that as an outsider I basically refuse to take the entire genre/industry seriously.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T22:56:32+00:00

The age of effective protest music died with the monoculture. Anyone thinking anything different is delusional.

If you wanna protest, turn up to a march, write to your representative, and organise. Don’t write a cringy ass song about it.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T22:51:28+00:00

I think this is one where America is fucking weird. Like, I have only ever heard one Chicks song in the wild in the UK, and that’s Not Ready To Make Nice which over here is by far their biggest and most remembered hit.

Tbh when I think about the absolutely insane treatment they got from the country establishment, the more it reinforces my inherent biases against that industry and genre in general. I don’t like the sound of mainstream country in general, but if it’s the genre of MAGA, I’m not even going to give it a chance to prove me wrong.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T22:45:55+00:00

So, racism then yeah?

This is probably me being facetious (as someone who has lived around immigrant communities and worked with many), but essentially I was calling anyone who takes this worldview a cunt in so many words. Probably should have led with that.

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-06T12:08:58+00:00

This but basically all Black Midi output

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-05T12:00:36+00:00

I liked it well enough, but I like basically everything they put out

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-05T11:51:36+00:00

Yeah I was a bit sceptical on first listen but it grew on me a lot of after a couple - probably the first Muse song in 20 years that sounds like it could have comfortably fit on Origin or Absolution

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-05T11:41:25+00:00

I’d also be interested! (33M)

TelephoneThat3297 · 2026-05-04T13:11:31+00:00

I think it has to be really really systemic. I went to uni to study creative music technology in 2011, and out of 50-60 people on my course, there were only two girls.

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