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In September this year, Amazon's hit American drama "Black Robe Pickets" returned, premiering three episodes and then one episode a week. As soon as the first three episodes were released, they received a 97% favorable rate on Rotten Tomatoes, and the Douban score reached 8.9, which continued the strong momentum of the first season and improved.
The second season of "Black Robe Picket"
is in the third episode of the latest broadcast. The episode starts with singer Billy Joe's 1985 MV "You're Only Human (Second Wind)". A boy wants to jump. Bridge committed suicide and Billy Joe appeared as an angel, showing the world after his death, dispelling his thoughts. It can be said that it quietly hinted at the theme of "what is a superhero" in this series. The existence of
heroes is not to kill anyone, but to save ordinary people. Billy Joe is a musical angel playing the harmonica and saved the soul of a boy. But the reality is not so good. In this anti-super British drama series, the heroes are sanctimonious hypocrites, surrounded by killings and capitalist packaging, and the only ones who confront them are only a few mortals.
The second season of "Black Pickets"
After the explosion of the Marvel universe, large and small screens began to appear a large number of super British movies and dramas, and even caused Martin Scorsese to curse that this is not a movie, but a playground . When a genre enters its heyday, there will always be a situation where things must be reversed, and anti-genre works will emerge as the times require.
When the westerns entered the late stage, John Ford was already reflecting on it, using a "Two Tigers Slaying a Dragon" to put an end to the Western Ranger, telling people that in the era of legal system, lawyers are the last heroes. Fred Kinneman's "Noon" is even more exaggerated. The hero is embarrassed like a ghost, wandering in the small town, unable to respond to each other, but silently waiting for the judgment of fate. The same is true of
"Noon"
Noir film. "Dead Kiss" uses an almost unexplainable nuclear explosion to slide this genre into the realm of surrealism. The "Golden Arm Man" and "The Painful Reward" lead the black to a deeper moral dilemma. Realistic problems such as drug abuse and debt have become a nightmare that plagues the protagonist. In the end, it ended with the fall of Orson Wells in "Gone with the Tribulation".
"The Lady of the Tribulation"
Now in the post-"reunion" era, the super-English theme also needs some anti-traditional and new ideas? Marvel's "Deadpool" deconstructs the super-British genre with the attitude of constantly breaking the fourth wall. And on the small screen, there have been atypical super-British dramas like "Big Crowd" that don't talk about opposition but only talk about the inner atypical. Last year, a drama that really dared to turn a superhero into a villain has also appeared, that is, "Black Robe Pickets".
"Black Robe Pickets" is adapted from the adult comics of the same name by cartoonists Garth Ennis and Darrick Robertson. It is a maverick super British drama series. In this comic universe, all heroes are controlled by capital and are the assets of Water Company. The company helps heroes package, public relations, assign tasks, develop derivatives, and become a complete capital system, making Water the world's most powerful consortium, which can almost cover the world and control government decisions.
The first season of "Black Pickets"
Here, superheroes headed by the "cottage superman" of the motherland, regard themselves as gods, despise the lives of mortals, superficially benevolent and moral, and kill cruelly behind their backs. No one dares to punish them. On the other side, a group of mortals headed by William Butcher, claiming to be black pickets, are secretly looking for the weaknesses of these superheroes and vowing to bring them down. A contest between humans and gods has begun...
's "Black Robe Picket"'s anti-superiority is not just talking, but an all-round reaction without dead ends. Since the first episode of Xiu Yi’s girlfriend was hit by a superhero locomotive into meat sauce, it completely broke the inherent values of Super British works, and in a bloody shocking super-scale way, it smashed other Super British works into full screen Blood paste.
The first season of "Black Pickets"
surpassed "Spartacus" on a violent scale, with broken limbs and headshots appearing endlessly, making Batman who doesn't kill people feel inferior; the scale of bed scenes does not lose "Quanyou", Starlight The sentence "I shine when I climax" is enough to make a defender like Captain America face red. The inside story of a large number of Water companies operating the "Group of Seven"The details fully demonstrate what it would be like if there were really superheroes in the Internet era. Excessive exposure, extreme squeeze and commercial development have turned each hero into a hypocritical giant baby. They only care about public opinion and traffic. Even for the sake of exposure and greater power, the people of the motherland have created super terrorists all over the world. .
In the first season, we witnessed the corruption and brutality of the superhero group "Sevens" of the DC Justice League, witnessed the love of two different camp characters, Xiuyi and Starlight, and the black picket killing the invisible Man’s initial victory. In the mid-season, it was revealed that all superheroes are not born, but are a shocking scam created by the water company injecting compounds when they were babies. In the end, Billy Butcher, who was intent on revenge, discovered that his wife was not dead, and gave birth to a son in the motherland. The next season ends.
The first season of "Black Pickets"
in the first three episodes of the second season, everything has a new beginning. The black robe picket was wanted. Billy Butcher escaped from his death by relying on the agreement reached between his wife and the motherland. He also determined to fight the "seven" to the end and find his wife. Xingguang became Xiu Yi's internal response in the "seven", helping him steal the superhero compound and exposing it to the media.
People from the motherland have discovered the existence of their own son and tried to make up for the relationship between father and son, but they still have difficulty changing the nature of the cruel giant infant. In order to stimulate his son's superpowers, he even pushed him off the roof. The other members of the seven-member group, such as Maeve and Deep Sea, are trying to find the remaining bits of self and humanity, and discover the true definition of heroes.
The appearance of the new character
in the second season of "Black Pickets" is the turning point of the whole plot. Yumiko’s brother came to the United States as a super terrorist and became a rather interesting point of view. The American superhero is in the world. Other places are considered demons. Superheroes are a symbol of the United States. Just like the people of the motherland wearing the national flag, they changed the slogan of "Sevens" from "Save the World" to "Save America." They know who is paying for this myth. Super Heroic culture is an American lie from head to toe. The lie of
is packaged as the American dream and becomes another hegemony. In the super-English movie "Watchmen", which is very similar to this show, the two "heroes", Ye Xiao and Liaojiang, after attacking the protesting civilians, have a dialogue:
"What about the American dream?"
" American dream? You are looking at it."
"Black Picket" season 2
Ye Xiao, traditional heroes, once believed in American justice, but reality made him doubt. The anti-heroes such as the natives of the country and the laughter are better at letting this justice work for themselves. Heroes who possess prestige, wealth, power, and privileges will indulge in them and replace universal values with their own principles. This is a true portrayal of the corruption of the American dream.
At the end of the third episode, the new female "hero" Storm Girl who joined the "seven" group launched a massacre. In order to hunt down terrorists, destroy the entire black community, and finally murdered Yumiko's brother cruelly, showing herself Not to lose the superpowers and even greater hypocrisy of the people of the motherland. She usually disguised herself as an independent modern woman, but in the battle, she did not hide her brutality and racial discrimination. She will undoubtedly become an important super villain this season, who can fight against the motherland. The opposite of
is the starlight who has become the audience's favorite character. What she really moved us was not her superpower, but her kindness, bravery and wit.
The second season of "Black Pickets"
In the last season, she was troubled by her inability to control her abilities. By this season, she has learned not to use her own abilities, but with wisdom to deal with the "seven". between. Threatening the locomotive, exposing the compound, and even the kindness and help to Xiu Yi, her growth is obvious to all.
Xiuyi quoted the lyrics of the opening song "You're Only Human (Second Wind)" in the message to her, said the line "You&39;re my second wind", and compared it to a ratio. Play as the angel who saves the boy’s soul.
This is undoubtedly the highest praise and admiration for this young hero, and it is also a praise for superhero culture. However, Starlight does not understand XiuyiOf heart.
The second season of "Black Pickets"
But at least this romanticism still exists between the screenwriter and the audience. It also exists in the hearts of those who still believe in superhero culture.
