Part of the joke seems to be that he’s not an anormous asshole, just a bit of a prick.The whiff of permanent adolescence under a performance of adulthood. Beating up teenage vandals, MRA-ish pep talk for kids, humiliating an old foe in public – the trailer doesn’t quite give you enough context to know if they’re really being jerks, and the trailer knows it. It’s a good trailer!
A lot of this show’s appeal will depend on whether they get the level of asshole right. If Johnny is genuinely bigoted or abusive, or Daniel genuinely hypocritical or gross, it will be a bad show because only bad people will truly sympathize with them. If they stay behind the lines or even carefully manage character arcs that dip across them, maybe it’ll be a good one.
