The Boys

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Season 1
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 347 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 283 out of 347
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 347
  3. Negative: 44 out of 347
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Awards & Rankings

65
#65 Best TV Season of 2019
6
#6 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019
87
#87 Most Shared TV Season of 2019

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Jan 3, 2020
    80
    The gore factor is significantly reduced for the screen. Nonetheless it is still frequently over the top. Heads explode, eye-balls fry, a beloved sea-going mammal smashes through a windscreen. You may feel queasy at least once per episode. ... Beyond the yuck factor, The Boys offers an astute commentary on popular culture’s obsession with superheroes.
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  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Graeme Virtue
    Dec 4, 2019
    80
    It is gleeful, violent and blackly comic, a raucous rocket full of Kryptonite.
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  3. Slate
    Reviewed by: Matthew Dessem
    Aug 16, 2019
    80
    The premise is pretty familiar “who watches the watchmen” stuff—a ragtag team of normal humans, each with their own reasons, take on the superhero-industrial complex—but the execution is unusually strong.
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