The Boys Review

Lets Talk about ‘The Boys’. Streaming now on Amazon Prime, the Boys is a look at superheroes who have a dark side to them. It’s like they took popular DC Superheroes and showed how they would if they were real people.

But this is NOT a superhero show, it’s a show about people who have a grudge against them and want to take them down.

The production values for this show is really good and doesn’t look or feel cheap at the least. The supes in the show feel like DC hero's alternate versions . There is a version of Superman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman (who is butt of all jokes for being pretty much useless).

Be warned this is definitely a show for kids. The rating is clearly 18+ and with good reason. People die in the messiest way possible; there is shocking amounts of gore all throughout the eight episodes. Not to mention there is a lot of swearing and rough language.

PLOT/Story

Coming to the plot and story, this show is abased off a comic book and the plot flows really well, but there are times when the pace is REALLY slow. Sometimes it takes an entire episode for things to happen and its clear that the showrunners are looking for a multi season format. Having said that, despite it slowness, by the end of the first season they definitely do not keep the audience hanging in the air. The show ends on a sort of cliffhanger but brilliantly does so by resolving the season’s primary conflict. That’s EXCELLENT story writing. Something the makers of LOST should have done.

The end provides all the answers to this season’s plot but establishes so many more new plot lines to be resolved in the future season.

Acting

TV shows have hit or miss sort of acting, this show thankfully is a HIT. Every actor embodies their role to perfection. This show has a version of Superman going by the name ‘Homelander’. The actor who plays him does an excellent job of playing up the goody two shoes who is actually totally ruthless and nasty. But the real stand out here is Karl Urban. This is an actor who hasn’t yet gotten that famous despite being in Thor Ragnarok and Star Trek. He plays the main character of ‘Billy Butcher’ to perfection. Snarky, nasty, rude and slightly unhinged, Butcher is the perfect foil to these superheroes.

Overall

I binged this show within 2 days. I rarely binge, I didn’t even see Stranger Things season 3 that fast. So this show is definitely worth a watch if you are bored of Superheroes being the good guys in the DC shows. This is the perfect time to release this show actually. Due to the MCU superheroes are a worldwide phenomenon and that is the premise of this show. But in it the superheroes are also real people, who are flawed and have their own agenda other than doing good for the society.

So post an Avengers Endgame world, enjoy this dark take on supers.

Rating : 8/10. Thoroughly entertaining and VERY WELL made.