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- Prime Video
- Jun 2, 2022
- Prime Video
- Jun 2, 2022
Summary Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg's superhero series, based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson focuses on a group of vigilantes that include Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Female (Karen Fukuhara), and Frenchie (Tomer Capon).
- Prime Video
- Jun 2, 2022
- Prime Video
- Jun 2, 2022
Summary Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg's superhero series, based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson focuses on a group of vigilantes that include Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Female (Karen Fukuhara), and Frenchie (Tomer Capon).
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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20% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
77
80% Positive
16 Reviews
16 Reviews
20% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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It’s heady, heavy stuff. And yet The Boys never stops being fun. It’s Marvel with a script by Noam Chomsky. Batman v Superman where the real villain is unchecked capitalism. And – provided you can stomach the gore and the orgies – it’s the smartest, bravest show on television right now.
It’s heavily populated, extremely well cast — whoever found the chiseled Antony Starr deserves either a raise or an Emmy — and never boring. The third season has a lot of moving parts but the show wisely keeps its focus on Homelander. There are a lot of jerks here, but it’s the jerk at the top, the jerk with the most apocalyptic power (like that jerk in Russia), who’s scariest.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 163 User Ratings
7.1
77% Positive
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
2% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
21% Negative
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 163 User Ratings
7.1
77% Positive
126 Ratings
126 Ratings
2% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
21% Negative
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
A howling satire of our real world and the superhero fictions we create, The Boys also features a ripping mean streak all its own. It’s brash. It’s bloody. And if the boys wanna fight, you better let ‘em.
The show manages—save for the occasional lull, usually having to do with Frenchie and Kimiko’s relationship—to keep things wild and ridiculous.
The acting and characterization is top-notch, and the gory fight scenes remain thrilling. While the satire is a downgrade in sharpness from Season 2, the story remains worth watching. For all the attempts at topicality, this season’s most effective capturing of the zeitgeist is in the narrative’s celebration of standing by your friends when the world at large is unfathomably awful.
No season has fully cohered, including the third outing that debuted Friday, which feels a tad too earnest for its own good.
These eight episodes are easy to watch but easy to forget, and the satirical identity The Boys once had gets lost under the viscera, semen, radioactive waste, and neon-green vomit coating this season’s uneven subplots.
The show painted itself into a corner. If they get rid of the main threat, they no longer have a show because there would be nothing left besides gore.
If they don't get rid of the main threat, the show will just keep running in circles for yet another season.
The excessive gore and sex only serves to try and distract people from the fact that it should have lasted a single season only.
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SEASON 3
Lots of cool moments and scenes in the show, interjected with a jarring slanderous "mirror world" portrayal of reality's political topics, media reporting, and historical events..
The actors do a GREAT job! Jensen Ackles is awesome as Soldier Boy, and Karl Urban deserves this spotlight.
The political takes, though, are kind of like "Fan Fiction: How I Wanted Politics to be", in blatant stark contrast to the supposed "Politics: a satirical representation".
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SEASON 3
The Boys wants you to believe it's a satire of modern culture. The problem is that it happily partakes in the same thing it claims to satirize. Couple this with scenes of little value other than shock with lazy and predictable writing and you get The Boys. The very definition of mediocre. Why people are falling over themselves to praise this show is baffling, assuming that the praise is genuine.
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SEASON 3
I watched 5 episodes last night and tonight I just don't feel in the mood for more obvious liberal agenda, **** stuff, butt jokes, female empowerment speeches with the occasional superhero stunt thrown in and a bunch of plot twists that don't make a bit of logical sense. Going to watch reruns of something else. And when I rather write a review than watch your show. You know you've done something wrong
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SEASON 3