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The Boys Prime Original |OT| are back in town (Renewed for Season 3) | Aired episode spoilers! [Comic Spoilers will be thread-banned]
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This. I was already hyped for this because I'm a fan of the original comic book, but goddamn, Anthony Starr as Homelander takes my hype to a whole new level. He was incredible in Banshee.
I think because they showed the birth in flashback, I didn't really question it that much, so finding out they were alive was a bit of a surprise. Did Mesmer say that his wife had been seen before Butcher killed him? I feel like he might have.
I was fairly sure there where something about the kid... but then the wife as well...
This post sort of points out something that I'm not seeing enough talk of. All the antagonists in The Boys are horrible pieces of shit but you still want to see their story progress. I've always disliked action films because the villain is almost always someone you want to punch in the face every time they're on screen and I'm sat there waiting to get back to the likable hero. I could watch The Deep, Homelander, Stillwell, Mauve etc all day though. It takes some damn fine acting/writing to pull that off.
I just heard about The Boys yesterday, and I binged it all in 12 hours, well, I'm about to do the last episode now.
Excellent show, I did not expect to love it this much. Maybe because I hate superhero films and never watch them, so this Supes as villains story tickles my fancy.
Also, excellent casting, all the characters are so well matched to actors.
And I love the soundtrack as well, whoever is picking the music is a genius.
Excellent show, I did not expect to love it this much. Maybe because I hate superhero films and never watch them, so this Supes as villains story tickles my fancy.
Also, excellent casting, all the characters are so well matched to actors.
And I love the soundtrack as well, whoever is picking the music is a genius.
Just finished and this is my main takeaway from this all. What a scary fucking villain.
I wanted to watch a couple episodes a day...yeah right, binged the whole thing already. Now I can't wait until season 2.
Holy fuck, I did not recognize him. I was going to google the actor because his face was somewhat familiar, but I couldn't make the connection. I think that the beard threw me off.
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This is essentially dark humor and satire. I think it's very different from Umbrella Academy.
I'm almost done with episode 6 and this show keeps getting better and better. I mean it's one thing to give us a super hero show that actually villianizes them, that's a nice change but I wasn't expecting what seems to be a critique of Capitalism and insulated institutions as well.
Holy shit he really is!! Man that is some insanely good acting on his part. Like the dude is AMAZING in it, and was built for that role.
Sleeper show of the year, can't wait for season 2.
I finished the season. God damn, what a final episode. The last ten minutes leave the story in a truly interesting place. I'm glad this series has been renewed.
The cast is top notch. All of the characters and actors are so good. I like how this show hasn't done the dumb thing of throwing characters away for cheap drama. Any number of them could have been killed off by hacky writing, but no, the story respects what they bring to the mix, and follows more sophisticated impulses.
I expected to be entertained by a crass and schlocky, kinda bro-ish show. Superheroes who swear and fuck and kill, haha! These aren't your daddy's Marvel heroes! But the Boys earnestly takes on the grave implications of amoral, deeply damaged superbeings: what they might do, the broken people they leave in their wake, and how people of conscience deal with their shit -- all without sacrificing any of the entertainment value of the high concept premise.
The Boys seriously digs into these ethical themes at the same time we get to witness a team pep talk about the Spice Girls, see some truly badass and brutal bursts of action, and watch rapey fishboy's tragicomic meathead misadventures.
This show is something special. I binged it in two days and now I can't wait for more.
The cast is top notch. All of the characters and actors are so good. I like how this show hasn't done the dumb thing of throwing characters away for cheap drama. Any number of them could have been killed off by hacky writing, but no, the story respects what they bring to the mix, and follows more sophisticated impulses.
I expected to be entertained by a crass and schlocky, kinda bro-ish show. Superheroes who swear and fuck and kill, haha! These aren't your daddy's Marvel heroes! But the Boys earnestly takes on the grave implications of amoral, deeply damaged superbeings: what they might do, the broken people they leave in their wake, and how people of conscience deal with their shit -- all without sacrificing any of the entertainment value of the high concept premise.
The Boys seriously digs into these ethical themes at the same time we get to witness a team pep talk about the Spice Girls, see some truly badass and brutal bursts of action, and watch rapey fishboy's tragicomic meathead misadventures.
This show is something special. I binged it in two days and now I can't wait for more.
Even the spice girl pep talk ultimately has a poignant payoff.
Yeah, I definitely didn't expect that to be brought up again. Nice touch.
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Binged this in less than 24 hours, did not expect that. When i watched the trailer a while back i thought it looked too OTT for the hell of it and didn't like Urban doing a British accent
Show was fantastic. Storyline that was interesting and had a great finale and a Really strong cast to, Starr as Homelander was as good as he was terrifying!
Glad to hear a second season is a certainty.
Show was fantastic. Storyline that was interesting and had a great finale and a Really strong cast to, Starr as Homelander was as good as he was terrifying!
Glad to hear a second season is a certainty.
I hope having a Superman doesn't write itself into a corner. It's definitely a great show, it's Amazon's Stranger Things.
I binged it all last night. Wow. It's really elevated over the source material. Maybe the best show of 2019 so far?
Never read the book, but I did not find the show to be juvenile at all
They fixed majority of the issues I had with the comic and most of the over the top stuff the show does do is justified.
Good to hear. I'm not against disturbing content in a story like this. The book seemed to revel in it too much. Not a huge fan of Ennis' harder-edged stuff.
I mean there is a lot of gore, but it always seems meant to underscore the horrificness of their powers, and isn't reveled in at all.
Black Noir reminded me of Overkill and makes me sad The Tick was cancelled. Season 2 started to get a bit into similar territory and looked to maybe do more so if it continued, I wonder if that had a bit to do with them cancelling it.
