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

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  1. Positive: 114 out of 152
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 152
  3. Negative: 34 out of 152
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  1. 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
  2. AgentLvi
    Jul 21, 2023
    7
    Decent movie. The story is so --so, scoring is great, visual is decent, and the voice is also great
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. KHODESOHEIL
    Dec 26, 2022
    9
    This season was awesome
    In episode 2 we saw fantastic moments
    And i cant believe ep6
  6. 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.
  7. ForbiddenFruit
    Sep 30, 2022
    10
    Such a fun show to watch, looking forward to the next season. Actors are really great
  8. 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!!!
  9. 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
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. 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.
  18. 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...
  19. 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
  20. 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.
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. 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.
  24. 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.
  25. Onlyclassicvg1
    Jul 17, 2022
    5
    er two good seasons The X-Files really kicked things up a notch in terms of consistency in its third year. The episodes focusing on the shows mythology were a lot more generally a lot more cohesive and episodes such as "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose" and "Jose Chungs from Outer Space" are great pieces of television and rank amongst the best the show ever produced.
  26. 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
  27. 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
  28. 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.
  29. 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
  30. WFM
    Jul 12, 2022
    9
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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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