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| Prime Video | AMAZON | Release Date: July 26, 2019 |
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).
Creator:
Garth Ennis
Genre(s):
Drama, Action & Adventure
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Positive:
30
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
Collider
Jul 22, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The Boys operates on a few different levels, all of which the creative team nails on one level or another. ... But where the writing staff really excels is in the world-building. They’ve kept large chunks of the comic book story intact while also stripping away a bit of the X-Treme Edginess. ... And setting it firmly in a setting that’s both comic-book elevated and so perfectly 2019.
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Sep 3, 2020
Season 2 Review:
A sharp, entertaining, eviscerating satire of superhero franchises and the culture that aggrandizes them. ... If Season 1 was great, Season 2 is even better, thanks to the expansion of the main characters’ back stories — which in turn throws the good-versus-evil, perfect folks-versus-regular slobs plot into even sharper relief. New twists and members of the ensemble are added judiciously, which is probably a strange word for a show that’s so wonderfully reckless.
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Sep 4, 2020
Jul 24, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The premise of the Amazon black comedy is never not fun, and the more we learn about this bizarro world, as the supes go on the late-night talk shows and stage team-up photo ops on various crimes, the better. ... The cast is fine, particularly Shue, who is icily effective; Quaid, whose neurotic but brave fumblings are endearing; and Urban, who is Hughie’s gonzo guide. But the real star of “The Boys” is the situation itself.
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Aug 16, 2019
IndieWire
Apr 30, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It is nagging to see a show so devoted to criticizing the delusional nature of superhero culture also ignore one of its more persistent sins: diminishing women to props (not to mention using rape as a motivating tool for someone else). ... Given the top-notch special effects and sharp writing at the core of “The Boys,” there are still loads of potential within this well-realized universe.
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RogerEbert.com
Jul 25, 2019
Season 1 Review:
“The Boys” has too little emotional momentum, and trouble with its construction throughout—it’s too obviously taped together by conversations where one person tells another of a past incident solely so that we can learn about it, a cheap way to push the plot forward and cover exposition.
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Oct 15, 2020
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Dec 3, 2019
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Jul 27, 2019
Pretty entertaining, well written please watch it if you are into comics and superheros.
The whole superheros ideology is written and executed very well after the marvel fever it's a very fresh experience
The whole superheros ideology is written and executed very well after the marvel fever it's a very fresh experience
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Sep 6, 2019
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Sep 30, 2020
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Oct 28, 2020
I don't know what to say about this. This is just mad awful. The worst schizophrenic insane garbage of fantasies in one. Is that what americans watch on their tv nowadays? This explains everything.
2 of 6 users found this helpful24
Jan 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.
0 of 11 users found this helpful011
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