I watched the Boys S1...and I feel like I'm the only one on earth who doesn't like it.
The show has some really awesome ideas. The hyper-capitalist workplace hell idea is cool. And it's framing for sexual misconduct and stuff is really unflinching and commendable.
But man, I just didn't find it fun to watch. At all.
Some scenes are better than others, but basically every single scene in the show is a tense, awkward conversation, with the camera panning back and forth between characters. Like Jesus, every single scene. I just did not find it enjoyable, or captivating, or anything. For a superhero show, even one attempting to be deconstructionist, it has the least superhero action possible. Like, in 2 or 3 early episodes, there is no superhero action at all. I get that the show aims to make you uneasy, but every single conversation was so tense and uncomfortable I wished I was doing something else, especially when I knew it would just be that for the rest of the episode. Starlight, Hughie and Butcher are the only likable characters (except for Stewie, who is just poorly written). But Hughie is annoying at times and Butcher is unjustifiably self-destructive and poorly written too, imo. Annie is easily the only character I truly liked.
I think the cinematography is lazy and boring, especially since there's no fucking action until the last couple episodes.
Who knows, maybe I was just spoiled because I saw HBO's Watchmen a couple weeks before, which I would give a 10/10 to. Maybe The Boys' humor isn't for me, but other people somehow found it's trying-too-hard jokes and nothing characters funny. Maybe making Karl Urban wear cool outfits and spit one-liners in an overly accentuated accent just wore off much more quickly for me than anyone else. If I just wanted to see hour-long annoying, stressful conversations every night, I don't have to watch a fucking superhero TV show, I can just look at my family. Sorry guys, it really wasn't for me. Won't be watching S2.
Anyway, a couple episodes in on Lovecraft County. Decent so far.
