This week’s episode of The Boys featured a golden statue of Homelander (Antony Starr) and debuted just days after a Florida golf course unveiled a golden statue of President Donald Trump. And Eric Kripke, executive producer and showrunner of the Prime Video superhero satire, has taken notice of the unintended parallel.
“Seriously, what the f***?” reads a meme image Kripke posted on Instagram on Sunday. The image shows a side-by-side comparison of the Trump statue with the Homelander statue seen in the Season 5 episode “Though the Heavens Fall,” which started streaming on Wednesday.
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