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- 2022
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The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Season 1 Premiere: Jan 27, 2022
70
5.6
All Seasons
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
70
71% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
29% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
You may be tempted to watch this ambitious package of shorts in a single sitting, though these animated appetizers are worth savoring for how rich with creativity they are.
Whether you’re a fan of The Boys or not, you’ll enjoy the animated shorts in The Boys Presents: Diabolical, mainly because they tell good stories with funny character-driven gags.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 37 User Ratings
5.6
54% Positive
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
24% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
22% Negative
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8 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 37 User Ratings
5.6
54% Positive
20 Ratings
20 Ratings
24% Mixed
9 Ratings
9 Ratings
22% Negative
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
Bardzo fajna antologia, zabawa różnymi stylami oraz formatami, humor znany z The Boys oraz pokręcone pomysły twórców - to nie mogło się nie udać. Miły dodatek
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Given the fact that Seth Rogen admittedly is high practically 24/7, it's astounding how much he has on his plate. Must be the sativa. Not only does he have the current excellent Pam and Tommy, but the next seasons of The Boys, Invincible, and about ten other upcoming projects. Diabolical is the melding of The Boys and Invincible, an animated hyper violent look at superheroes. The first episode is like an old Warner Brothers cartoon (even with scratches on the frame) with the plot of the'90s family comedy Baby's Day Out, with lasers and ultra gore. As in, at one point, viscera splatters the entire screen. But it's presented with such joyful abandon and glee, it defuses the violence. It is a cartoon after all. Much better than the Matrix or Star Wars animated shorts.
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Fans of “The Boys” will certainly be entertained by the easily bingeable series, but the most sterling episodes are the ones that abandon the genre completely and tell a fascinating, human-centered story — albeit with a gory, superhero twist.
While the standard isn’t uniform across all eight episodes, there are no calamitous “misses” in the mix. Each entry lands a couple of solid jokes and is successfully animated in its own distinct style.
Some of the shorts are absolutely fantastic, playing with the trappings of the show’s world to create funny or heartbreaking stories that stand on their own. Others? Well, let’s just say 12 minutes is often not enough time to tell a story.
It’s far from diabolical, but this is probably best enjoyed as an amuse-bouche before the main series eventually returns.
The show always looks phenomenal, but the storytelling in the mid-section of the season is just lackluster when compared to the creative plotting of the show itself and the best of these shorts. One could easily watch the first and seventh episodes and move on to reading the source material instead. If this animated experiment sags in the middle, it bounces back in the final trio of episodes.
This is a series of mostly good BOYS spinoffs. With the final episode being a great prequel to Homelander. While there are some misses this is overall a solid project.
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Mostly just a series of uninspired knockoff episodes, which doubles down on the original's excessive violence, but contains zero of its soul. None of the featured new characters are likable, and the stories serve no purpose other than to spill guts, gore and profanities onto the screen.
Compared to recent excellent animated shows like Invincible this is just utter garbage. The only mildly entertaining episode is the one with the Homelander, and even that one is painfully derivative compared to both the original series/comics and to deconstructionist superhero subgenre in general.
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Production Company:
- Amazon Studios
- Kripke Enterprises
- Original Film
- Point Grey Pictures
- Sony Pictures Television Studios
- Sony Pictures Television
- Titmouse
Initial Release Date: Jan 27, 2022
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Hollywood Critics Association Television Awards
• 1 Nomination
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
