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. All_ButTrU4
    Jun 4, 2022
    7
    a fascinating TV series that makes your what if's into horrifying realities. It's a refreshing oasis from the never ending marvel fatigue introducing strong performances ,gore and dark humor. I hope it can continue to develop into the cult classic it's bound to be with few hiccups.
  2. ObsoleteGhoul
    Jul 12, 2022
    9
    Season 3 is the best season yet of The Boys. For me it's this season then 1 then 2. I like season 2 but I think season 3 is a major step up from 2, soldier boy is an awesome character, hope to see more of him in future seasons.
  3. SimboTheKing
    Jul 16, 2022
    7
    I was really quite enjoying this season of the boys until probably the last 2 episodes. Prior to this, it felt like it was really building somewhere but its like the creators did a 180 on Soldier Boy and just decided to turn everyone against him. Look I get he's a bad guy but I can't help but feel nothing has fundamentally changed the story from S2. It feels like a bit of a waste. I didI was really quite enjoying this season of the boys until probably the last 2 episodes. Prior to this, it felt like it was really building somewhere but its like the creators did a 180 on Soldier Boy and just decided to turn everyone against him. Look I get he's a bad guy but I can't help but feel nothing has fundamentally changed the story from S2. It feels like a bit of a waste. I did like the recurring theme of this season with childhood trauma/parenting issues bring highlighted but I just feel that to ONLY have that be the entire driving force behind the season feels like stretching one theme way too thin.

    Outside of this it still contains a lot of the elements that elevates the boys and made it such a popular show. The production on this show is always top-notch and the gore is off-the-scale. There's no doubt that lots of effort goes into the show. I just don't want it to end up as one of those shows were the story just never really progresses as they get distracted by a different side mission every season.    … Expand
  4. GI_Biochip
    Jun 3, 2022
    10
    I find this show hilarious, I think it's brilliant! Looking forward to seeing what disasters unfold.
  5. bertobellamy
    Jun 10, 2022
    7
    Still very funny and graphic, but I have some concerns about it getting stuck. Hope the rest of the season proves me wrong.
  6. brockcheese
    Jun 8, 2022
    8
    Of course this season starts with one of the goriest and sexual scenes in the entire show. Very much in the same spirit as the rest of the show. Watching Homelander's slow descent into madness is great.
  7. snm6666
    Jul 26, 2022
    10
    best show i have seen in long time, its controversial, no woke crap and overall I love it that it metaphorically represents our society and how dumb we are.
  8. CoolBR
    Jul 31, 2022
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This season features Soldier Boys awakening trying to get revenge and Temporary Compound V that can give power to someone for 24h but many doses are fatal.

    The begging of this season is terrible. Too much blablabla and nonsense like Homelander visiting Butcher and saying they will fight in the future but don't kill him while Homelander humiliates everyone in the Vought's Tower and even kill some heroes. So the Boys try to find a way to kill him searching for the weapon that killed Soldier Boy but in reality he is alive and he unites with Butcher and Huhgie to revenge for what they did to him.

    Then the 2nd half is a lot better, it shows Soldier Boy killing all his former partners and Homelander that took Vought's control going to hell and scared of Soldier Boy. But after some intense fight scenes and emotional conflicts among all the characters in the show, Homelander won.    … Expand
  9. fwam
    Jul 21, 2022
    9
    Pretty good season sticking with close story of the comic. Good acting and builds up. A bit slower but spending more time on the characters helps.
  10. AndySandy
    Jun 3, 2022
    10
    Perfect cinematography. Amazing gore. Perfect series!!!
    One of the best tv-show i have watched the latest years. I can't wait for the saga to continue!!
  11. Morgrain
    Jun 27, 2022
    10
    In a world full of people that get constantly triggered, this show is a breath of fresh air. It's not afraid to deal with tabo topic, no, it thunders over them. And all this in excellent craftsmanship: good dialogues, great costumes, real humor, reflection of the zeitgeist - a masterpiece.
  12. LILDETERMINATIO
    Jun 7, 2022
    10
    the season 3 is better than the 2 previous seasons. It's darker and more gore and let's not forget the fun that comes with it. So far so good. The seaon has a lot of action and it keeps going up.
  13. Dupreeturtle
    Jun 5, 2022
    9
    Great character development with Starlight, Homelander, Deep and Butcher. Cant't wait to see Soldier boy in action.
  14. drlowdon
    Apr 27, 2023
    8
    A year after the events of the previous season, the Boys now working for the Bureau of Superhero Affairs to apprehend problematic Supes. However, the conflict is resumed once Butcher begins to investigate the truth about the apparent death of Soldier Boy, one of Vought's first American superheroes, with the hope of killing Homelander for good.

    The Boys continues to do a great job of    A year after the events of the previous season, the Boys now working for the Bureau of Superhero Affairs to apprehend problematic Supes. However, the conflict is resumed once Butcher begins to investigate the truth about the apparent death of Soldier Boy, one of Vought's first American superheroes, with the hope of killing Homelander for good.

    The Boys continues to do a great job of translating and updating the comic books, and whilst the violence may put some people off, the mix of satire and action continues to entertain.    … Expand
  15. TooHigh2Die
    Jun 5, 2022
    10
    This is the best Super Hero show out there and it's not even close. Makes fun of everything and has excellent acting, story, and special effects.

    The first 3 episodes of this new season are some the best of the show as we all get to see Homelander slowly losing his mind leading to some great scenes. Kudos to Amazon for making each episode 60+ min as Disney has been getting away with    This is the best Super Hero show out there and it's not even close. Makes fun of everything and has excellent acting, story, and special effects.

    The first 3 episodes of this new season are some the best of the show as we all get to see Homelander slowly losing his mind leading to some great scenes. Kudos to Amazon for making each episode 60+ min as Disney has been getting away with this 40 min episode crap for too long.    … Expand
  16. ParsaGamer
    Jun 12, 2022
    10
    ............................................................................................Great..........................................................................................
  17. Angel_Sigh
    Jul 12, 2022
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I wrote an earlier review of this season, giving it an 8 out of 10 and calling it the most entertaining thing on television, bar none. I said the same thing about season one and two(although two was easily the weakest). I hugely enjoyed the first few episodes I watched.
    But I've come back change that review and raise that score to 9 out of 10 because of how the episodes have somehow become more and more absurdly entertaining and slap-your-knee funny/outrageous as the season has worn on. I'm watching the seventh episode out of eight and at this point I am being quite honest in saying this season has been one of the most brilliantly enjoyable seasons of television I have ever seen. It has riveted me at every stage, and crucially, with the entry of Soldier Boy onto the scene, it has a focus and momentum that reminds me, at least as I near the season finale, of Breaking Bad as that show neared its end. S3 of The Boys has the same kind of momentum to it, like a runaway train screaming towards a cliff-edge, and I get the same sense of anticipation I felt watching Walter White escalate and escalate and escalate throughout the back end of BB towards the chaos of Ozymandias and Felina.
    I also feel a kind of attachment to the characters that I didn't before, particularly to Frenchie and Kimiko, They have all been deepened, their backstories fleshed out. I almost like Butcher although I think Karl Urban's performance is still seriously flawed, basically because he relies on that cheeky smile and absolutely horrific cockney accent to do a lot of the acting leg work. The truth is Butcher is much more charismatic and interesting when he's not winking at the camera. He's interesting enough as a nasty, messed up c***, so the chimchimcheree mockney geezer mugging and head rolls are just distracting. Oh, and Hughie's just as annoying as ever, with that permanent 'concerned' frown on his face. But really that's nitpicking - they're still interesting characters, they're just not as interesting as the others.
    And yes, people have said it many times before but Anthony Starr's performance as Homelander is truly spellbinding. To portray such a combination of strength and insecurity, to truly get across how broken and empty and meaningless his life is, to do all this without ever trying to force the viewer to like the character he's playing - it's an amazing, amazing performance. Every time he enters a room there is an instant tension that never lets up for a single second. you know that he is a single perceived slight away from turning every organism in range into chunky salsa. Terrifying.
    The budget feels like it's been increased massively too and there are frequent wonderful injections of surrealism, meta- breaks with convention, characters conversing with Disney cartoons, dance numbers where Frenchie and Kimi waltz through a hospital. And I'm not sure why but it's explosively funny now, the jokes seem to hit harder than they did in the first and seconds seasons. Some of the comic writing is sublime, reminding me of the best of Taika Waititi's films - Soldier Boy waking up from his coma and accusing Hughie of making up the words 'internet' and 'GPS' made me laugh for about a full minute. I honestly can't go into what a fantastic character Soldier Boy is in this constrained space, just know that he is. A kind of douchebag Wolverine with no PC filter and nuclear-PTSD, he is magnetic and, as I said, serves as the central focus for the show's gravitational pull as it nears the finale. We get a short teaser of a conflict between him and Homelander which ends with the latter doing a Neo and scarpering through the roof, but apart from that it's the anticipation and suspense of all these characters finally meeting up and combusting that really underlies everything.

    I love this show but the last slightly aimless season made me a lot less excited about this one, and I began to wonder if the first season's quality was a fluke. It was not. This season raises the bar enormously, hugely, and I can't think of any TV show since Game Of Thrones at its absolute peak that has been as thrilling and purely entertaining as The Boys in season three. I could rabbit on for three times this long and not cover even a third of my favourite moments from the show. Let me just say, if you haven't seen a man getting pleasured by an octopus then you haven't really experienced everything TV has to offer. That is just a tiny, outrageous slice of The Boys. It is tasteless, hilarious, ridiculously and comically gory, ruthlessly satirical and contemporary, clever, stupid, sad, happy, terrifying, riveting, but above all entertaining, constantly entertaining, like it cannot afford to let your mind wander for a single second. It wants you to have the best time you can possibly have watching a TV screen and, well, it pretty much manages it.    … Expand
  18. Imperius147
    Jun 11, 2022
    8
    + actors
    + storytelling
    + action
    + blood

    - ignore comics story
    - gender swap

    One of the best tv-show i have watched the latest years.I love it.
  19. WFM
    Jul 12, 2022
    9
    Herogasm! ✨ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
  20. Bluto1941
    Jun 6, 2022
    9
    So far as great as past seasons. Eager for more. Grear fun and great action.
  21. popocho
    Jun 5, 2022
    10
    One of the best shows currently available to watch. Perfect satire, perfect pacing, spot on acting, great characters. It's a blast.
  22. Bruterake
    Jul 11, 2022
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Eu achei muito bom, tirando as parte cringe de musical nada haver colocar elas slc e atuação odo butcher com as careta dele. O Homelander é top demais rendendo meme pa caralho e até que pra uma série as lutas dele não ficaram ruins. Sem contar o sucesso da música do soldier boy ave maria todo lugar do tik tok tocando mandaram bem demais na caracterização do personagem.… Expand
  23. Jarbushi
    Jun 4, 2022
    10
    Great show, characters well developed and story so interesting. Keep it up.
  24. Hansello
    Jun 6, 2022
    10
    Fantastic show. I 've just started the 3rd season and the quality has continued. Very violent and gory in places, but a fantastic alternate story of a world of superheroes. Great watch.
  25. geewah
    Sep 15, 2022
    8
    In this season they somehow have pushed this too even further limits without taking too much away from the story's integrity. This show is in danger of jumping the shark if not careful, but still has another season or two left in it.
  26. MetacriticOnur
    Jul 8, 2022
    8
    excellent
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  27. KJ_20
    Nov 12, 2022
    8
    It's gruesome, shocking and engaging. Season 3 is far from perfect, it does have many issues and questions raised. But like with the whole series, there aren't any characters which really have inspiring attributes. Yet, S3 remains a strong and powerful addition to the Boys storyline.
  28. Crownmont
    Jun 9, 2022
    9
    Raw and uncompromising, but somehow still funny. Love the Boys (and girls) of this show.
  29. Heart_Idealism
    Jul 9, 2022
    7
    I kinda worried that they're gonna go full diabolical and straight up became unpalatable. But surprisingly enough, this season has enough self-restraint to hold on the blood fest and build up their tension nicely

    Only the aftermath is slightly bothering me, because they're kinda playing safe. Too safe to be honest. This season has so little consequences dan development compare to the    I kinda worried that they're gonna go full diabolical and straight up became unpalatable. But surprisingly enough, this season has enough self-restraint to hold on the blood fest and build up their tension nicely

    Only the aftermath is slightly bothering me, because they're kinda playing safe. Too safe to be honest. This season has so little consequences dan development compare to the other. After all that conflict is ended, we kinda went back again to the square one. Only with a more loose and screwed in the head Homelander on the run.

    Honestly the plot for the next season is what i imagine this season's gonna be. And that makes me a little disappointed at the finale    … Expand
  30. B4ugh
    Sep 17, 2022
    9
    Another amazing season of the boys. Absolutely loved Frenchie and Kamikos storyline this season. Hughie and Butchers dynamic was as good as ever. Loved the backstory we got on butcher and noir. Actor that plays homelander deserves an Emmy. Mother's milk got to portray a lot more emotional range with his acting chips. Overall fantastic, can't wait for season 4!!!
  31. ForbiddenFruit
    Sep 30, 2022
    10
    Such a fun show to watch, looking forward to the next season. Actors are really great
  32. KHODESOHEIL
    Dec 26, 2022
    9
    This season was awesome
    In episode 2 we saw fantastic moments
    And i cant believe ep6
  33. chong
    Mar 21, 2023
    9
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I just watched a scene where ant-man shrunk down into a guys cock and blew him after he sneezed from doing coke… Expand
  34. AgentLvi
    Jul 21, 2023
    7
    Decent movie. The story is so --so, scoring is great, visual is decent, and the voice is also great

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#74 Best TV Season of 2022
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#12 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

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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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