Amazon’s The Tick does a great job deconstructing the superhero genre

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“This new version of The Tick feels like the freest one yet,” says Evan Narcisse. “It can be what it wants to be without having to worry about kid-marketing angles or Nielsen ratings. And what it is is a surprisingly heartfelt satire of stuff we’ve seen a whole dang lot of, lately.” PLUS: The Tick often feels thin and awkwardly stretched out, it feels too much like every other streaming show, this is the most mature distillation of The Tick vision, and the 2001 Tick was a Super Friends for a pre-Defenders age.