The Boys

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Season 3
Season #: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
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7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 152 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 114 out of 152
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 152
  3. Negative: 34 out of 152
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  1. Cutloso
    Jun 17, 2022
    0
    I was really looking forward to the third season. Then they decided to go full woke on the viewers and focus more on their boring agenda than the quality and development of the show. Very disappointing.
  2. Maleficento
    Jun 17, 2022
    0
    This show is good if you are an extreme left anarchist.

    Eric Kripke has proven that he has no idea what is going on in comics and is filming this show just to spread his extreme leftist agenda.

    Leave the Boys alone and make some of your original work without stealing someone else's work if you have no intention of respecting the original work.
  3. lukehimself
    Jun 18, 2022
    3
    Lots of cool moments and scenes in the show, interjected with a jarring slanderous "mirror world" portrayal of reality's political topics, media reporting, and historical events..

    The actors do a GREAT job! Jensen Ackles is awesome as Soldier Boy, and Karl Urban deserves this spotlight. The political takes, though, are kind of like "Fan Fiction: How I Wanted Politics to be", in    Lots of cool moments and scenes in the show, interjected with a jarring slanderous "mirror world" portrayal of reality's political topics, media reporting, and historical events..

    The actors do a GREAT job! Jensen Ackles is awesome as Soldier Boy, and Karl Urban deserves this spotlight.

    The political takes, though, are kind of like "Fan Fiction: How I Wanted Politics to be", in blatant stark contrast to the supposed "Politics: a satirical representation".    … Expand
  4. Midian00
    Jul 9, 2022
    1
    Cuckoldry put on a shiny pedestal. Writers share 1 brain cell for the whole room while simultaneously shoving as much propaganda **** in the scripts. Creepke should be hanged.
  5. EMLM
    Jun 27, 2022
    0
    Another show just ruined by leftist distorted reality view and woke agenda. A lot of explicit propaganda and explicit, unnecessary male nudity. The Boys: season 3 has become unwatchable.

    The show used to be almost political neutral, just a little leftist. There was no good political side, just the whole hipocrit system to be fought. Not anymore. Now, for the producers and authors, right    Another show just ruined by leftist distorted reality view and woke agenda. A lot of explicit propaganda and explicit, unnecessary male nudity. The Boys: season 3 has become unwatchable.

    The show used to be almost political neutral, just a little leftist. There was no good political side, just the whole hipocrit system to be fought. Not anymore. Now, for the producers and authors, right wing is the enemy.    … Expand
  6. TwiTu
    Jun 23, 2022
    0
    WTF is going on with all the extremists in Hollywood?
    This show was really good and pretty much neutral on politics or made fun of all sides. And then in season 3 it suddenly decided to go full blown wokeism, so that you could think Stalin is back and the producers of this show needed to appease him with this, in fear of their life. Just like they depict the people around Homelander.
    If    WTF is going on with all the extremists in Hollywood?
    This show was really good and pretty much neutral on politics or made fun of all sides. And then in season 3 it suddenly decided to go full blown wokeism, so that you could think Stalin is back and the producers of this show needed to appease him with this, in fear of their life. Just like they depict the people around Homelander.
    If anything this show is perfect projection of the mind of the producers. It seems like they get wet when they look at Homelander and the people groveling to him. They depict the people in this series as stupid for believing Homelander and the other corrupt Supes, but in reality they now are doing to their audience what Homelander and Vought is doing to the stupid people in their series and what wokeists do to other people.
    The projection and lack of self reflection is amazing.
    These kinds of series, especially those that flipped suddenly to wokeism after a few seasons, will be case studies for psychologists in a few years. It will be a glorious era for psychology, almost as good as it was after WW2, when they tried to analyze why people did something like that.    … Expand
  7. getsmelifted
    Jun 5, 2022
    3
    The Boys wants you to believe it's a satire of modern culture. The problem is that it happily partakes in the same thing it claims to satirize. Couple this with scenes of little value other than shock with lazy and predictable writing and you get The Boys. The very definition of mediocre. Why people are falling over themselves to praise this show is baffling, assuming that the praise is genuine.
  8. Cuquer
    Aug 6, 2022
    0
    Please don't believe all the fake reviews for this show. The writing is awful, and the acting is poor, I wasted a part of my life viewing this garbage.
  9. Clutcher
    Aug 11, 2022
    0
    Season 1 great. Season 2 ok. Season 3 is running on fumes. Please stop before you ruin this franchise. If you like The Boys please read the graphic Novel. It is so much better than this.
  10. Madremia
    Aug 8, 2022
    0
    Sorry but I don't feel any excitement watching this show. I know this is remake of a comic series but according to me this show is very overrated. These are my opinions only and it may vary with others. So, I don't mind it.
  11. SoManySaltySJW2
    Sep 15, 2022
    0
    Season 1 = AMAZING! Season 3 = MEH!!
    I have watched Season 1 three times all the way through and I enjoyed it every single time. So I was obviously excited that they were doing a Season 3!
    But I am at episode 5 and it is a total disappointment. Nothing like Season 1. Its just plain boring!
    So can only give 0 stars sorry
  12. KamenRiderDark
    Aug 6, 2022
    0
    Just like Hanna, a promising first season has lead to a dreadful second season. I made it five episodes into season 2 and I've had it. I was very excited for season 2, but once again we get an agenda shoved down our throats, and certain aspects of social society have to invade entertainment. Sorry, season 1 was not a vehicle for social injustice, but season 2 sure is. I'm done and will notJust like Hanna, a promising first season has lead to a dreadful second season. I made it five episodes into season 2 and I've had it. I was very excited for season 2, but once again we get an agenda shoved down our throats, and certain aspects of social society have to invade entertainment. Sorry, season 1 was not a vehicle for social injustice, but season 2 sure is. I'm done and will not finish the season.… Expand
  13. Somuchsalty
    Aug 7, 2022
    0
    Politics aside, there is a steep drop in writing quality from seasons 1, and 2, and it shows. Now the show has become the epitome of the soulless corporate cash grab that it parodies
  14. chikiponmex
    Aug 11, 2022
    0
    I was hoping for something a bit more original in terms of the superheroes being not so heroic, but it was just a mashup of "Hancock" and "American Gods" neither of which I was a fan of. This just isn't for me. Then again, I'm not a huge DC/Marvel fan, so I'm just not the demographic. I went to the show seeking some good villains or antiheroes, but the definition of this on the show areI was hoping for something a bit more original in terms of the superheroes being not so heroic, but it was just a mashup of "Hancock" and "American Gods" neither of which I was a fan of. This just isn't for me. Then again, I'm not a huge DC/Marvel fan, so I'm just not the demographic. I went to the show seeking some good villains or antiheroes, but the definition of this on the show are male actors who act like any human creep: sexual perverts, no accountability, thinking they are hotshots. Once you remove the high concept (which is brilliant, by the way), the actual content is just a show about superpowered guys acting.… Expand
  15. Trunkis
    Jul 9, 2022
    0
    To many fillers its like they are trying milk the franchise . Season 3 content should have shown with a decent paced 4 episodes instead they streched it to 8 episodes with unnecessary fillers which barely add anything to the story. Amazon and sony should put more budget to this franchise because they need to step up the fight scenes. But I love the cast they did an amazing job as always❤.To many fillers its like they are trying milk the franchise . Season 3 content should have shown with a decent paced 4 episodes instead they streched it to 8 episodes with unnecessary fillers which barely add anything to the story. Amazon and sony should put more budget to this franchise because they need to step up the fight scenes. But I love the cast they did an amazing job as always❤. And NO, season 3 stopped being satire and turned into a parody of itself (before the woke flowers tell me that I don't undestand satire)… Expand
  16. CaseyJones
    Jul 11, 2022
    0
    Nothing but woke garbage. Every bad guy is white and a caricature of a conservative. Every message is a real world analog that is painfully one sided. The irony is that the show is boring now, has terrible writing, and yet even with the political messaging, it's based on myths and lies.
  17. ScienceAdvisor
    Jul 13, 2022
    0
    This is Left Wing self-pleasuring, pretending to be balanced when it is anything but. This is as bad, if not worse than Season 2 and the ending of Season 3 really screws up what came before. Those claiming otherwise think there are heroes/heroines in this show. They have massacred every character to the point where no one is redeemable. Just another adaptation by sociopathic that thinkThis is Left Wing self-pleasuring, pretending to be balanced when it is anything but. This is as bad, if not worse than Season 2 and the ending of Season 3 really screws up what came before. Those claiming otherwise think there are heroes/heroines in this show. They have massacred every character to the point where no one is redeemable. Just another adaptation by sociopathic that think psychopathy tendencies is not necessarily a bad thing in the good characters. These types of writers and show runners need therapy.… Expand
  18. Trunker
    Aug 7, 2022
    0
    As someone from outside the US can attest, now I know the meaning of trump derangement syndrome after watching this season. It is a fascinating peek into the mind of the writers... and what a USA extreme leftist worldview looks like. As at show it fails in the third season, the showrunners were so busy with the propaganda than writing a good show.
    I'm angry I wasted my time watching this.
  19. SoManySaltySJWS
    Aug 6, 2022
    0
    I was hoping for something a bit more original in terms of the superheroes being not so heroic, but it was just a mashup of "Hancock" and "American Gods" neither of which I was a fan of. This just isn't for me. Then again, I'm not a huge DC/Marvel fan, so I'm just not the demographic. I went to the show seeking some good villains or antiheroes, but the definition of this on the show areI was hoping for something a bit more original in terms of the superheroes being not so heroic, but it was just a mashup of "Hancock" and "American Gods" neither of which I was a fan of. This just isn't for me. Then again, I'm not a huge DC/Marvel fan, so I'm just not the demographic. I went to the show seeking some good villains or antiheroes, but the definition of this on the show are male actors who act like any human creep: sexual perverts, no accountability, thinking they are hotshots. Once you remove the high concept (which is brilliant, by the way), the actual content is just a show about superpowered guys acting.… Expand
  20. Cryariversjws
    Aug 6, 2022
    0
    Not true to the comics AT ALL. Why does Hollywood need to push its leftish agenda constantly and dump all over the source material!!! Next...
  21. drewezbreezee
    Aug 25, 2022
    2
    I watched 5 episodes last night and tonight I just don't feel in the mood for more obvious liberal agenda, gay stuff, butt jokes, female empowerment speeches with the occasional superhero stunt thrown in and a bunch of plot twists that don't make a bit of logical sense. Going to watch reruns of something else. And when I rather write a review than watch your show. You know you've doneI watched 5 episodes last night and tonight I just don't feel in the mood for more obvious liberal agenda, gay stuff, butt jokes, female empowerment speeches with the occasional superhero stunt thrown in and a bunch of plot twists that don't make a bit of logical sense. Going to watch reruns of something else. And when I rather write a review than watch your show. You know you've done something wrong… Expand
  22. Psitivebomthis1
    Sep 15, 2022
    0
    Meh
    Can't get over the buzz around this one. Karl Urban is cool, I would watch him in anything. But this show is mostly very very average. Tedious and the ridiculous interspersed with the occasional entertaining moment. It just does not grab you at all. What is up with this site and the glowing "reviews" for mediocre stuff.
  23. GojoItadori
    Jul 23, 2023
    0
    Wow. Holy politics, Batman. This show has great potential but loves to force their narrative down everyones throat. I don’t mind the politics, but it’s not even done cleverly and simply says “agree with me bigot”. Next, the show doesn’t even explain why their politics are correct while demanding you follow what is said, even though it’s been debunked. I’ll give the show credit with theWow. Holy politics, Batman. This show has great potential but loves to force their narrative down everyones throat. I don’t mind the politics, but it’s not even done cleverly and simply says “agree with me bigot”. Next, the show doesn’t even explain why their politics are correct while demanding you follow what is said, even though it’s been debunked. I’ll give the show credit with the gore, storytelling, attachable characters(especially Homelander). Other than that, it’ll lose its audience if it continues to dilute the show with this nonsense. The show insists that black people are held down and can’t do anything in this nightmare called America. That woman are underpaid and don’t belong in entrepreneurship. That all Trump supporters are Nazis. I can go on and on, because that’s how much the show can’t shut up with the politics. Unlike the show, I’ll explain why this logic is flawed. In the episode with Blue Hawk who brutalizes the black community, it gets into “police brutality”. The problem with that is it simply isn’t true, that the police are just hunting down black people. They also made Blue Hawk a Mexican fella and this says that anyone who disagrees is the enemy. The show does mention black-on-black crime but immediately turns back to police brutality. I’d advise anyone to look up these numbers and do their own research. The show always tells us that woman and minorities can’t work their way up in business, when again this simply isn’t true. It feels like a slap in the face to minorities who actually made it. Did they make it by sheer luck, and not hard work? But no matter, the show will digress and won’t give you an answer. I feel Seth Rogen may have too much influence and why the show is rolling downhill. Which I’m not sure how he’s allowed in a studio after his atrocious Christmas show on Hulu. To go on that note, the show claims cancel culture isn’t real, at the same time Rogen condemned his old movies such as Superbad, claiming they weren’t even funny. The show offers zero solutions to any problems they claim are happening, along with no evidence to back up these claims. Making it part of the main plot of the show. I’m highly disappointed as the first season had serious momentum. If this continues, I don’t think many people will enjoy it as we can see from the ratings going down on Amazon.… Expand

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 20 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Ed Power
    Jul 8, 2022
    100
    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.
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  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alison Foreman
    Jun 3, 2022
    91
    Packed with fun-as-ever action, surprise cameos, and searingly salient commentary, The Boys season three ticks nearly all the boxes for those seeking on-screen catharsis amid real-world frustration, impatience, and grief.
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  3. Sioux City Journal
    Reviewed by: Bruce Miller
    Jun 3, 2022
    70
    What gets lost, though, is the camaraderie of the dissidents. It’s still around, but so much time is spent showing Homelander railing at everyone, it doesn’t give them their due – at least not in the early episodes. ... But the beauty of “The Boys” is you just never know where it’s headed.
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