Thanks Pentagon, Boots climbs for Netflix. | Television tonight

In its second week on Netflix, Boots has doubled its weekly viewership to 9.4 million, and risen to number 2 in Netflix’s UK TV rankings.

“I guess we have to give the Pentagon some credit there, don’t we?” creator Andy Parker told Vanity Fair.

Parker noted Boots is not the “queer fantasy of sexcapade and homoerotic fantasy” that some viewers expected, but it is also not “this polemical screed against the military – this truly devastating attack.”

Last week, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson hit the show in a statement shared with multiple media outlets. “Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the U.S. military is returning to restoring the warrior ethos. Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and gender neutral, because the weight of a backpack or a person doesn’t matter whether you are a man, a woman, gay or straight,” she said. “We will not compromise our standards to meet an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and fuels waste that wakes up their audience and children.”

But as they say, all publicity is supposedly good publicity… (that’s not really true).

“It was certainly never my intention to make anything that was propaganda and I really reject the idea that it is. The fact that we seem to be between these two different sides is a testament to how the show wants to approach these really thorny, interesting questions. [Boots] tries to navigate this in a nuanced way that isn’t as overtly strident in its attacks or in its politics. I think it’s something more subtle,” Parker said.

“I would be very surprised if the Pentagon actually watches the show. The premise itself provokes or encourages some kind of reaction or assumptions. What I would invite people to do is watch the show and see what they think about the questions that the show is trying to provoke.”

Boots is now showing on Netflix.

Source: Term