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ILikeEyeBallsAug 30, 2019

Absolute garbage. This show is the worst piece of trash I've ever seen. I am so sick of every other Amazon and Netflix orignal show being filled with over the top gratuitous violence and sexploitation. How anyone other than a closetAbsolute garbage. This show is the worst piece of trash I've ever seen. I am so sick of every other Amazon and Netflix orignal show being filled with over the top gratuitous violence and sexploitation. How anyone other than a closet psychopath would find this entertaining boggles my mind. Please stop making trash and give us shows and stories with characters and people with at least a shred of human dignity.… Expand

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empoweredsistaSep 24, 2020

I find it absolutely repulsing that this series depicts the forceable workplace rape of an innocent womyn. Stop me if you heard this one before --- Beautiful Womyn is lured by an evil sick sexually depraved man in a position of authority ANDI find it absolutely repulsing that this series depicts the forceable workplace rape of an innocent womyn. Stop me if you heard this one before --- Beautiful Womyn is lured by an evil sick sexually depraved man in a position of authority AND in order to keep this career that she worked sooooo hard for she is compelled to betray her every instinct and live with shame and regret. Right out of the Weinstein playbook. The Boys writers must be Harvey disciples. #MeToo… Expand

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marcus10643Jan 5, 2020

This show is made by psychopaths for psychopaths. I won't say that everyone who likes this show is a psychopath but there are certainly quite a few among them. This show is utterly contemptible in almost every regard.

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PaulystanAug 18, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It starts off quite strong. The basic premise being a dark underbelly of the fake media of super heroes. It has some good acting, interesting script and random comic book style fight scenes. It's entertaining and has massive amounts of potential. However like most current times series and films, it is socially scripted regardless of how socially unscripted its premise is... we are so unscripted that superheroes and their world is dark and ruck and all the norms are sheep for the killing or using. However we are totally scripted in that everything is so sickly dark, Christianity is bubblegum pop sickness, everyone sexually weird or corrupt or broken by guilt EXCEPT the people who are gay or lesbian in which case they are oppressed and they need to be liberated by evil conservative Christian history which needs to be ridiculed and turned into idol worshipping mad people. This show, once again, makes it clear that regardless of the point of the show, if you don't love everything about gays and woke narrative, you're a disgusting, ducked up evil turd that needs to never have an opinion or be allowed to breathe. It is desperate to force peoples thinking down that narrative that it makes it oppressive from season one. I long for the day when shows stop being oppressive with narrative and forcing subliminal putrage on something simple like waking past a post that says marriage is 1 man and 1 woman for life. It's actually a very normal and reasonable opinion about marriage. It's not shocking or weird. So, why make it seem evil and out of left field. For that matter, why even bring it up in this show at all? Why once again do we have to do fake Christian worship scenes which do nothing but take the piss out of a global religion? It's the same stuff in every show. It's oppressive, is bullish and it's incorrect. You're using fiction to rewrite people's brains and it's corrupt.… Expand

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BroyaxAug 19, 2021

La première saison est dans l’ensemble une adaptation correcte du comics, même si ça reste assez édulcoré par rapport à la Bd… il faut dire qu’il se passe des ‘trucs’ là-dedans que l’on ne pouvait pas restranscrire stricto sensu ! maisLa première saison est dans l’ensemble une adaptation correcte du comics, même si ça reste assez édulcoré par rapport à la Bd… il faut dire qu’il se passe des ‘trucs’ là-dedans que l’on ne pouvait pas restranscrire stricto sensu ! mais l’humour noir est de temps en temps bien présent et relativement efficace, ma foi…

Evidemment, la série suit son propre chemin, sa propre interprétation de cette drôle d’histoire de super tarés, ce qui n’est pas forcément plus mal, car rien n’est plus barbant qu’un copié-collé trop servile… Cependant, la révélation de la fin de cette première saison saborde ce pourquoi le gars Butcher se bat et embarque la suite de la série dans une impasse…

La seconde saison, loin de capitaliser ou de s’améliorer, s’égare malheureusement à fond dans le me too, le SJW de merde (pléonasme) ainsi que dans les atermoiements des bisounours du vivre ensemble inclusif alors que de toute façon, on voit bien que cette série pousse à fond tous ses agendas de diversité, des minorités et comme dit plus haut de justice sociale revendicatrice et pleurnicharde.

Comme dans le comics, le personnage principal est une tête à claques et un ravi de la crèche très énervant mais inversement, le Protecteur se révèle ici encore plus intéressant que dans la Bd ; il faut dire que l’acteur qui l’incarne, Antony Starr, est particulièrement subtil et brillant dans le rôle du super psychopathe ! Butcher est pour sa part bien campé par un Karl Urban barbu et assez charismatique pour convaincre.

Les moyens et les effets spéciaux sont bel et bien là en tout cas et tout à fait satisfaisants mais l’action (souvent très brutale) reste bien trop rare, hélas. La série se perd de plus en plus en parlotes inutiles et chiantes, ce qui fait qu’on décroche de plus en plus souvent. Las, on arrête les frais à mi-saison (de la seconde) certainement pas désireux de poursuivre plus avant ce gâchis de série.… Expand

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Dragos02Aug 1, 2022

Best AAA tv series in ages. Didn't feel this crazy rush from breaking bad. The script is brilliant and you will not see one like this too soon, in this PC year's.
Even if you buy the Amazon subscription just for this tv show, like me, itBest AAA tv series in ages. Didn't feel this crazy rush from breaking bad. The script is brilliant and you will not see one like this too soon, in this PC year's.
Even if you buy the Amazon subscription just for this tv show, like me, it still worth it.… Expand

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MindurbidnissJun 21, 2021

I tried to like this show but it's absolutely awful. It tries way to hard too be edgy and funny (which the comic did successfully) and it just doesn't come off. I'm not even sure who the target audience would be for this show, definitely not me.

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Mauro_LanariJul 29, 2022

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The first feature film about mutants was "X-Men" directed in 2000 by Bryan Singer: each character had a complex and deep personality and, from the scene of Wolverine in the Statue of Liberty onwards, the memory of the movie(Mauro Lanari)
The first feature film about mutants was "X-Men" directed in 2000 by Bryan Singer: each character had a complex and deep personality and, from the scene of Wolverine in the Statue of Liberty onwards, the memory of the movie still excites me. What happened in these 2 decades? Superheroes have been desecrated, vulgarized, bastardized, drowned in the bad taste of the extremization of their own problems, lìmits or defects. "Deadpool", "The Suicide Squad" and now this TV series. The trend has been decided and there is no going back: too bad, since the comic book is excellent both in the narrative plot and in the graphic rendering and the audiovisual transposition preserves these qualities, but also the derisive and scurrilous contamination with a "Breaking Bad" 2.0.
Ps: or the Nirvana T-shirt or that of AC/DC, the incompatibility is absolute.… Expand

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Caedyn_KhanMar 12, 2021

I kept waiting for the show to get good, but it never happened. Promising storylines fizzled out, and basic storytelling took a back seat to shock value. Felt like a cynical emo teenager obsessed with blood and gore and being edgy wrote thisI kept waiting for the show to get good, but it never happened. Promising storylines fizzled out, and basic storytelling took a back seat to shock value. Felt like a cynical emo teenager obsessed with blood and gore and being edgy wrote this tv show and tried his hardest to make the audience feel as uncomfortable as possible. Most of the characters arent believable as human beings. Half the cast are psychotic villains. Absolute trash tv show that's pilot never should have seen the light of day. Not sure what I expected from an Amazon Original'. They should stick to 2 day delivery and leave motion pictures to people with actual talent.… Expand

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BonzoluvMay 11, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The show is barely based off the comic at all, it's all just doom and gloom depressing everything is bad waaaah. Lazy, and the heros being bad was a missed opportunity for a plot twist, they just revealed it all in the first episode. Also like half the characters are gender/race swapped which just pisses on the comics even more for stupid diversity. And they really couldn't make at least 5 of the characters likable? Only likable ones are the French guy, Milk guy, Homelander for his great acting, and sort of the Deep since he just turns into a joke character. But the fact he's a joke character is also a missed opportunity. And I should have took the red flag as soon as a saw it but the defilement of Christianity is also disgusting in episode 5… Expand

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kenedy11Aug 28, 2022

I couldn't like it, watching the first few episodes I found it pretty boring, then I ended up watching random episodes on television and it got worse, it's hard to find something that isn't made for these diversity people.

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KodiakBJan 3, 2022

The Boys take a very different, darker and more realistic spin on superheroes - how they might look like in real life compared to how they are portrayed in comics. Although one might argue that the things were tuned up a bit too far here,The Boys take a very different, darker and more realistic spin on superheroes - how they might look like in real life compared to how they are portrayed in comics. Although one might argue that the things were tuned up a bit too far here, making it equally unrealistic. While the premise is interesting, the stories that are surrounding it are not so much. I've been wondering numerous times throughout the season "just where is this going?" And more often than not, I didn't get my answer by the season's end. I've also been wondering why characters took some eyebrow-raising decisions, similarly I didn't get my answer by the end. The biggest strength of this TV series are actors - they got their roles extremely well, particularly Antony Starr. Nevertheless, it is not enough for me to continue watching a potentially dragged out plot in the second season just to be left with a feeling of emptiness again… Expand

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Sparda_84Aug 7, 2022

Ignore the "what if super heroes were bad" premise they promote the show with, this isnt that, this is satire, pretty damn good satire, its basically "Robocop with capes".

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theirrelephantsSep 5, 2022

Season 1 was good, Season 2 was overt political trash by someone with TDS.

Not surprising considering the producer Eric Kripke is openly racist against White people (I'm not joking, someone asked him about anti-white bigotry and hisSeason 1 was good, Season 2 was overt political trash by someone with TDS.

Not surprising considering the producer Eric Kripke is openly racist against White people (I'm not joking, someone asked him about anti-white bigotry and his immediate reply was comparing people complaining about racism against Whites to nazis).… Expand