- Network: Prime Video , AMAZON
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 26, 2019
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There’s a lot happening around The Boys‘ core concept, from a human-supe romance and a plan to sell superheroes to the U.S. military via Trumpian fear-stoking. There’s some serious Freudian baggage around Homelander and his handler and a number of gleefully absurd side vignettes. But none of it adds up to much, and there’s a constant sense that the show is treading over too-familiar ground when it’s not simply treading water.
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Tthe tone it struck in its first outing was a dully familiar one — the sense that to transgress, alone, is enough. If this show is to actually satirize the wide-open target of superhero entertainments, it’ll need to find a second gear, and quickly.
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“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.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 283 out of 347
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Mixed: 20 out of 347
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Negative: 44 out of 347
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Jul 27, 2019
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Jul 26, 2019Prudish and unfaithfull adaptation. Once more, USA's puritanism and adaptations to please the mass waste the show.
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Jul 28, 2019