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- 2019
- TV-MA
- Prime Video
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Prime Video
Summary Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg's superhero series, based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson focuses on a group of vigilantes that include Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Female (Karen Fukuhara), and Frenchie (Tomer Capon).
Created By: Eric Kripke
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Prime Video
- 2019
- TV-MA
- Prime Video
The Boys
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: Jul 26, 2019
76
6.9
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Summary Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg's superhero series, based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson focuses on a group of vigilantes that include Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Female (Karen Fukuhara), and Frenchie (Tomer Capon).
Created By: Eric Kripke
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Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 75 Critic Reviews
76
84% Positive
63 Reviews
63 Reviews
16% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 75 Critic Reviews
76
84% Positive
63 Reviews
63 Reviews
16% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
It’s heady, heavy stuff. And yet The Boys never stops being fun. It’s Marvel with a script by Noam Chomsky. Batman v Superman where the real villain is unchecked capitalism. And – provided you can stomach the gore and the orgies – it’s the smartest, bravest show on television right now.
The Boys quickly became Amazon's signature series, and the second season of this beyond-dark show outdoes the first -- offering a searing take on modern-day America that might be TV's most subversive program, camouflaged in superhero garb.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 2,047 User Ratings
6.9
71% Positive
1444 Ratings
1444 Ratings
7% Mixed
146 Ratings
146 Ratings
22% Negative
457 Ratings
457 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 2,047 User Ratings
6.9
71% Positive
1444 Ratings
1444 Ratings
7% Mixed
146 Ratings
146 Ratings
22% Negative
457 Ratings
457 Ratings
It's still a great show that puts the idiocy of hero-worshippers in the spotlight.
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Beyond the gross-out moments and fun fight scenes, it feels like the series is finally growing up, without losing its urgency or build-up to a phenomenal season finale. If anything, the languid pace aids in multiple points of no return, and it’s clear that once this season is over, the universe “The Boys” exists in will forever be changed.
The Boys isn’t nearly as subversive at it fancies itself. The idea that superheroes have a dark side has been part of the conversation about the medium for decades. Indeed it is the basis for many of Marvel and DC Comics’s most compelling storylines (Captain America: Civil War, for starters). But The Boys takes a cleaver to the cult of the caped crusader with genuine glee. If the gore feels non-stop – watch out for an exploding whale early on – so, too, does the show’s wicked sense of fun.
Since its 2019 debut, the show has unabashedly poked fun at everything while still being gory and inventive. But as seen in “Department Of Dirty Tricks,” it’s inching dangerously close to reality in a way that threatens to dampen its unique, most welcome commentary.
The Boys’s skewering of superheroism is often clever, but as the series progresses, the more hands-off approach of Butcher’s crew can leave them with little to do, to the point where the messy, circular plotting of the finale all but leaves them sitting on their hands.
“The Boys” has too little emotional momentum, and trouble with its construction throughout—it’s too obviously taped together by conversations where one person tells another of a past incident solely so that we can learn about it, a cheap way to push the plot forward and cover exposition.
Una serie con un guión que se repite temporada tras temporada, que no se anima a avanzar y que más allá de una premisa inicial, divertida e interesante, después no ofrece nada más que monotonia y algunas risas.
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The Boys take a very different, darker and more realistic spin on superheroes - how they might look like in real life compared to how they are portrayed in comics. Although one might argue that the things were tuned up a bit too far here, making it equally unrealistic. While the premise is interesting, the stories that are surrounding it are not so much. I've been wondering numerous times throughout the season "just where is this going?" And more often than not, I didn't get my answer by the season's end. I've also been wondering why characters took some eyebrow-raising decisions, similarly I didn't get my answer by the end. The biggest strength of this TV series are actors - they got their roles extremely well, particularly Antony Starr. Nevertheless, it is not enough for me to continue watching a potentially dragged out plot in the second season just to be left with a feeling of emptiness again
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Every posible good plot this show had during the first season was repolished, rewritten, reinvented or just destroyed now in season 2, to fix a generic-vanilla-moralistic-hollywoodistic mold of "good guys vs. bad guys" (with the good guys always winning a little bit more than the others all the time). Really. I wont go any further cuz I dont want to spoil you, but suffice to say: All the good excuses the protagonists had to seek for revenge against the superheros were extremely diluted, readjusted or supressed by now. Besides that, the miracle solutions the director and writters came up to fix imaginary problems that tend to last less than an episode, are ridicoulous and a real proof of laziness.
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Production Company:
- Amazon Studios
- Kickstart Entertainment
- Kripke Enterprises
- NightSky Productions
- Original Film
- Point Grey Pictures
- Sony Pictures Television
Initial Release Date: Jul 26, 2019
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 14 Nominations
Astra Television Awards
• 5 Wins & 13 Nominations
Critics Choice Super Awards
• 7 Wins & 9 Nominations