Max’s chaotic superhero satire ‘The Franchise’ has landed — and I love it

Aside from maybe “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “The Penguin,” I’ve mostly been out of the loop on the whole superhero front for some time. That is, until, I saw the trailer for “The Franchise,” HBO’s new satire from showrunner Jon Brown, Sam Mendes, and Armando Iannucci.

Now, having streamed “The Thick of It” countless times, I was absolutely on board with a satire poking fun at the content machines churning out release after release, especially one that does so with the same kind of barbed sense of humor of shows like Iannucci’s foul-mouthed political comedy or the kind of scandalous script found in Thea Sharrock’s “Wicked Little Letters”.