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The Boys

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Generally favorable reviews based on 54 Critic Reviews

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Generally favorable reviews based on 513 Ratings

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The Boys

Series Details & Credits

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

Recent Episodes

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S3:E8. The Instant White-Hot Wild
Air Date: July 8, 2022
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S3:E7. Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed
Air Date: July 1, 2022
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S3:E6. Herogasm
Air Date: June 24, 2022

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Metascore

77

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Critic Reviews

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The Telegraph Ed Power

Jul 8, 2022

Season 3 Review: 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. Read full review

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Los Angeles Times

Lorraine Ali

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. Read full review

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Collider Maggie Lovitt

Jun 2, 2022

Season 3 Review: Of the plotlines this season, Kimiko and Frenchie (Tomer Capon) are the most compelling to watch. ... There is a lot to love about this season of The Boys, but there is also a lot left to be desired. Most of the characters have reached a point where they need new motivations and outside influence to propel them forward. Read full review

80

New York Magazine (Vulture)

Kathryn VanArendonk

Jul 26, 2019

Season 1 Review: The best part of the series is not that we recognize Homelander as a twisted, perverted Captain America knockoff. The best part is that we also immediately recognize the real-world corollary for Madelyn Stillwell, with her corporate greed, her desperation to keep this organization within her control, and her laser focus on public image. Read full review

80

Vanity Fair

Sonia Saraiya

Sep 2, 2020

Season 2 Review: The second season is even more shockingly ruthless than the first, demonstrating just how puny the Boys are in comparison to the flying, ultra-strong superheroes they’re up against. It might be more bloody to compensate for a season that is a little less sharp than the first, though it continues to unravel the central themes that make the show so compelling. Read full review

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The Playlist Andrew Crump

Oct 5, 2020

Season 2 Review: Amazing that “The Boys” juggles each of its storylines without fumbling most of them. Conceptually, the season’s a jumble. Practically, it works remarkably well, juvenile in the way everything producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg touch should be but smart enough to know when not to be dumb as rocks (or, at least, to know when to take itself seriously and when to burst heads like grapes). Read full review

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RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

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. Read full review

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KadokaPL

Feb 24, 2023

Zajebiste. Nie bądź pizdą i to obejrz. Wszystko tutaj się zgadza a flaki bryzgają. 10/10

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pur__0_0__

Apr 19, 2021

A few years back I was starting to gain some interest in superheroes. I had just begun to watch Marvel and DC movies. Then one of my friends suggested me aboutThe Boys back when season 1 had just begun. I wasn't very much interested in in Amazon Prime so I thought should give it a try when IA few years back I was starting to gain some interest in superheroes. I had just begun to watch Marvel and DC movies. Then one of my friends suggested me aboutThe Boys back when season 1 had just begun. I wasn't very much interested in in Amazon Prime so I thought should give it a try when I get time to do so. And when I got the subscription this was the very first thing I saw.

The Boys is set in a dystopian society where superheroes a something of a cultural identity. Unlike Watchmen where people were shown to have lost their interest and superheroes because of their existence in the real world, people in The Boys absolutely adore the superheroes. They watch the movies, buy their toys, read their books, and do everything with way more passion than we do for superheroes. Homelander is given the same reputation as Superman, and is worshipped like a demigod. The truth, however, is completely different.

Nowadays it has become a trend to show that superheroes are flawed people. They also have many wrong habits and tend to make mistakes. But this show takes it on a completely different level. Superheroes are not interested in in doing their job of serving humanity at all. Rather they are owned by corporations like Vought, who use them for marketing purposes and for selling the dream of becoming a superhero by injecting children with Compound V as kids. And the gullible people do not question this as it has become something of a taboo to speak against these gods who live among us. The only people who dare to speak against them are The Boys, a team of misfits led by Billy Butcher. In the beginning of the show they are able to take out Translucent and use his dead body to taunt Homelander.

Starlight is is one of the members of the seven who actually wants to serve humanity but is tried to be bullied into submission by The Deep, A-Train and Homelander. I really like how all of them get their comeuppance, do I feel a little bad for The Deep. In season 2 he was shown to have been bullied as a kid and that is word changed his personality. This is something which clearly states how false Vought's propaganda about having the happy life of being a superhero is. Homelander is also shown to hate faking his origin story just for the entertainment of the people. A-Train was also a bad guy but helps out in season 2 and can also be excused for being a drug addict.

Season 2 introduced Stormfront, and I really like how they showed her to be the forward thinking member of the The Seven and ultimately her true personality was slowly revealed. Finally she also got what she deserved and everything went back to normal. I am really hoping that season 3 also turns out to be as good as the other two and the series doesn't drag on for no reason other than cash grabbing, because in that case they would just become what they are fighting against.… Expand

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Amanmavi_

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

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wayrez

May 16, 2020

I recommend this series not only to fans of the genre, but also in general to all fans of cinema and TV series. Beautiful picture pleases the eye, gorgeous, chic soundtrack caresses the ear, the speaker is, the story keeps in suspense.

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KodiakB

Jan 3, 2022

The Boys take a very different, darker and more realistic spin on superheroes - how they might look like in real life compared to how they are portrayed in comics. Although one might argue that the things were tuned up a bit too far here, making it equally unrealistic. While the premise isThe Boys take a very different, darker and more realistic spin on superheroes - how they might look like in real life compared to how they are portrayed in comics. Although one might argue that the things were tuned up a bit too far here, making it equally unrealistic. While the premise is interesting, the stories that are surrounding it are not so much. I've been wondering numerous times throughout the season "just where is this going?" And more often than not, I didn't get my answer by the season's end. I've also been wondering why characters took some eyebrow-raising decisions, similarly I didn't get my answer by the end. The biggest strength of this TV series are actors - they got their roles extremely well, particularly Antony Starr. Nevertheless, it is not enough for me to continue watching a potentially dragged out plot in the second season just to be left with a feeling of emptiness again… Expand

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Caedyn_Khan

Mar 12, 2021

I kept waiting for the show to get good, but it never happened. Promising storylines fizzled out, and basic storytelling took a back seat to shock value. Felt like a cynical emo teenager obsessed with blood and gore and being edgy wrote this tv show and tried his hardest to make the audienceI kept waiting for the show to get good, but it never happened. Promising storylines fizzled out, and basic storytelling took a back seat to shock value. Felt like a cynical emo teenager obsessed with blood and gore and being edgy wrote this tv show and tried his hardest to make the audience feel as uncomfortable as possible. Most of the characters arent believable as human beings. Half the cast are psychotic villains. Absolute trash tv show that's pilot never should have seen the light of day. Not sure what I expected from an Amazon Original'. They should stick to 2 day delivery and leave motion pictures to people with actual talent.… Expand

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kenedy11

Aug 28, 2022

I couldn't like it, watching the first few episodes I found it pretty boring, then I ended up watching random episodes on television and it got worse, it's hard to find something that isn't made for these diversity people.

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

77
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: June 3, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E8. The Instant White-Hot Wild
  Air Date: July 8, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E7. Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed
  Air Date: July 1, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E6. Herogasm
  Air Date: June 24, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E5. The Last Time To Look On This World of Lies
  Air Date: June 17, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E4. Glorious Five Year Plan
  Air Date: June 10, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E3. Barbary Coast
  Air Date: June 3, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E2. The Only Man In The Sky
  Air Date: June 3, 2022
- tbd
  S3:E1. Payback
  Air Date: June 3, 2022
Season 2

80
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 4, 2020
Season 1

74
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 26, 2019