Fucking great, finally, some real superheroes with emotions and personality
I loved the show and the ending had me LMAO!
The only issue I had with the season, was the fact that every male super was an asshole/dick-bag and every female super was a poor innocent victim.
The male supers did everything wrong/immoral and the female supers just had bad things happen to them.
Good first season. Rating-wise, every episode was a seven out of ten for me except for the finale. The season was certainly enjoyable, and I truly mean that, but rating any of the episodes higher than seven would've been an overstatement. I may look back on it differently and in a different light.
A little mediocre and predictable but still a fun show to watch. It definitely came out at the right time if we consider the popularity of both superhero franchises and dark/gruesome TV shows. The premise of corrupt superheroes manipulated by an evil corporation as if they were a K-Pop group is more than intriguing, even though it could have used more nuance in its development. Starlight is too pure and innocent, while the Vought heroes are just walking (or flying) piles of shit with no ambiguity or relatable traits whatsoever, almost like a cartoon villain. There is hardly anyone in between at this point.
MY THOUGHTS ON SEASON 1:
-WARNING: Spoilers Below-
This season can be summarised in one word... And that word is WOW!!! Seriously, this show was incredible! I was hooked the second I put the very first episode on, I don't actually think there was a single bad episode in the entire show!
Looking back on this season it was filled with: Comedy, Action (of course), Suspense and a lot of genuinely emotional scenes. One scene that stood out was Deeps scene in episode 7, I won't go into much detail but if you've watched the season you'll know what I'm on about. Everything about that scene made me feel extremely uncomfortable and for the first time in a TV Show I had to look away and couldn't watch the entire scene.
This show is 100% a favourite already and I can not wait for Season 2, Its been a good while since a TV Show has gripped me the way The Boys did, I really hope they continue the brilliant work in the next season. Definitely recommending this show!
HURRY UP SEASON 2!!!
i loved frenchie, Butcher was amazing, and Homelander is a whole f*cking MENACE.
most unhinged show i've watched in a minute, and there were a few incredibly funny and well delivered lines & moments
the ending's twist tho? holy fuck.
Leave the ugly dark-green fliter and some boring hardman sterotype alone, It's a good commerical TV series, the play is well-knitted and terse, attractive. Generally it's anti-hero but sometimes it also follows the common narrative of personal heroism. Wonder if the name can be also called lol, after watching this anti-hero TV series, I was totally disenchanted with the halo of these stars, and wow, the end is so unexpected.
literally this show is perfect and totally great, u will never get bored of any episode and u will really enjoying it, I don't how i didn't watch it all of this time but I'm glad!
What can I say about this? Other then it’s almost a complete masterpiece. Because it almost is. So unique and aware, the comedy is so grim, and the characters, wonderful. 9/10 season
:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:A Great Concept, Pretty Well Executed, Shame About The Profanities - 7 / 10:asterisk_symbol::asterisk_symbol:
This is a great idea for a fresh take on a superhero action show; real 3 dimensional characters that just happen to have super powers but are just as fallible as humans; selfish, greedy, callous and prone to using their powers for deeds on all spectrums of good and evil.
Two sticking points for me;
Karl Urban’s poor British accent. As the second to leading character in the series they really should have cast someone with a real British accent if it was going to be such a prominent feature. It has no bearing on the story, I’d have preferred he was just a Kiwi or cast an American and forget the foreigner thread all together.
The egregious use of the word CU:asterisk_symbol:T. Whoever was sat around that writing table and signed off on Karl Urban’s character calling everyone a cu:asterisk_symbol:t every 5 minutes needs to go read some books. It’s safe to assume that whoever it was that made the poor “British accent” choice was the same person; clearly us brits that use the C-word every two minutes and that’s the only way to communicate that characters brash humour right. I’m no prude but there are cleverer ways to write than that.
Otherwise solid entertainment.
7 / 10
It was fantastic but the final episode could have been better
There's a lot of intriguing ideas here, unfortunately it kind of feels like they've all been done before. It doesn't help that The Boys feels a little bit cheap due to a mix of budget constraints, production design and a few real misfires in casting. The storytelling is often scattershot and I even at the end of the season I feel like I haven't been properly introduced to quite a few characters and their development was extremely weak (notably A-Train, The Deep). There's an immaturity to it all that just prevents it going from good to great a little too often.
There's a lot of strong stuff, though. Jack Quaid as Hughie is fantastic and credibly portrays someone really out of his depth who's getting swept away. Karl Urban is definitely playing a very exaggerated character (with a dodgy attempt at an accent), but he makes it work and the character is great fun. The dark humour works more often than not, even when it's unexpected. Erin Moriarty as Annie/Starlight is a real bright spot in an otherwise grim show. The show presents a gloriously America-centric point of view and makes no apologies for it, presenting issues that feel unique to its set up and location and can certainly inspire a lot of debate (which did indeed happen among my housemates and I).
The show is often gratuitous to the point of absurdity, but it's not a massive issue with only a few moments that felt genuinely unnecessary, just put in there to satisfy gore hounds. This applies to the characters too, many of whom are unbelievably shitty people. This super cynical viewpoint was often a turn off for me.
I still found more to like than dislike here, but this could be a lot better. The show takes 8 episodes to tell very little story and there isn't much to really get invested in. And has Simon Pegg ever been more miscast than here?
Really awesome. Very well done.
I thought episode 1 was the best, and when I saw who directed it, I reeeally wanted to see the rest. And I wasn't disappointed.
This season has just the right amount of humor, action, drama... very well mixed. Some jokes are really bad, some are pretty good; but no episode isn't fun almost every single second. So there's really nothing negative I can say about it.
I remember it being pretty good except episodes 4 and 5 which were super woke.
77%
The Boys Season 1 is a nice begin. this show has been on my watchlist for a long time, but I still never got around to it.
It's fun to see the dark side of superheroes. It's all a bit rougher. That makes the first season a success.
the deep was the funniest character this season. sure, its fucked up what he did but so many things he was involved in was so funny (the dolphin, the lobster, the shave scene)
A dark and twisted look at the world of superheroes.
Mildly enjoyable despite itself. The storytelling is a like a weird throwback blend of both post-Breaking Bad, gritty prestige TV and Kick-Ass/Wanted edginess. Each can be effective on its own but doesn’t mix so well, because the former’s taking itself (too) seriously lessens the fun of the latter, and the latter is too surface pleasure to support the former’s bloat and unhurried pace. (For comparison, HBO’s Watchmen has much heavier and complex material, but its storytelling is much, much snappier) Also very less interested in The Boys than The Supes, because the satire is legitimately fresh fun than the revenge storyline’s morose predictability. MVP: Elisabeth Shue and Anthony Starr, who relish digging deep into their satire of corporate-meets-superhero culture most uproariously, and whose fascinating, twisted chemistry of their scenes together truly transcend the whole show.
I have to admit it took me two or three episodes to get into it but in the end I loved it. The choice to tone down the more absurd elements of the comicbook and make it more grounded, in a way, really worked for me. There's still a lot to laugh about but when the supes do their crazy shit it's much more effective (the airplane scene is really great). Overall it's a good adaptation and a smart TV show.
Captivating and leverages the current overabundance of superhero related media to make an interesting take on genre. The characters are fun, the story is interesting, and everyone involved does a phenomenal job. My only issue so far is some loose plot-threads, a weak season ending episode, and a traditional seasonal cliffhanger to hook you for season two.
Definitely not a perfect show, but really damn good and definitely worth the buzz its receiving in some regard.
Shout by Storm1672BlockedParent2019-07-29T21:54:47Z
This is one of THE BEST TV productions ever to grace the small screen. Top tier stuff. Every scene is important and every episode is better than the last. The dark humor, the gory scenery and the incredible picture quality are just toppings on an excellent character drama, while the world building is totally immersive. You will not be able to see other superhero productions and not think how "fake" they are, after this.
Top points:
- Best villain I've seen in a long long time
- It avoids cliches with ease
- Helluva production
- Incredible characters and spot-on dialogue
- The concept itself is a great idea creating huge potential
- Casting is awesome
Minor cons:
- Has great potential for action sequences but never takes off
- Some of the secondary characters although extremely likeable could be explored much more
This is by far the most fresh TV series I've watched in a long time. I really hope the second season comes quick and can live up to this.