- Network: Prime Video , AMAZON
- Series Premiere Date: Jul 26, 2019
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We mostly watch The Boys for gnarly violence and otherwise graphic material. While the show still leans too hard on that aspect—there are so many floutings of taboo that it all begins to feel curiously banal—much of its excess is guiltily appreciated. One watches the series eagerly awaiting the next gruesome thing. Such anticipation goes a considerable distance in covering up season four’s erratic plotting. There are myriad story threads tangled together, longer arcs and shorter digressions that, in their abundance, try patience.
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Varied threads, which don’t even include various team members of the namesake crew struggling with guilt from their traumatic pasts, already make the season feel less focused than its immediate predecessor. .... Season 4 starts to show the strain of that effort, both on the viewer’s tolerance for despair and the series itself.
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Alas, the multitude of storylines fail to cohere in a satisfying way.
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It takes real skill to take what is essentially the same story and disguise it as a fresh idea. That gambit has served The Boys well before, but Season 4 may be the weakest so far. Jagged stakes have been softened from season after season of repetition; the series has now been completely overwhelmed by its nihilist themes.
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