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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jun 18, 2019 2:05:15 GMT
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Post by stephen on Jul 30, 2019 17:40:50 GMT
So this was a brilliant first series, and Antony Starr deserves to sweep next year's TV awards for Supporting Actor.
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Post by Martin Stett on Jul 30, 2019 17:54:45 GMT
It just looks like a lot of swearing and edginess masquerading as satire. The idea is fun, but I don't think I want to watch this one.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Jul 31, 2019 0:53:49 GMT
I watched the pilot and can’t wait to keep watching. Super dark with some great humor sprinkled in.
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Post by Mattsby on Jul 31, 2019 1:48:27 GMT
Ep1 hooked me with its surprising violence and dark satire. Superheroes as pompous, cruel celebrities—and there's much expressed and suggested in terms of the behavior of these pseudo movie stars, politicians, athletes, spokesmen, and yeah, now and again, heroes. They are essentially merchandise of a major conglomerate facade. But more than that, with the most esteemed “Supes” and those who pull the strings, they're seedy, callous, and very manipulative. So with ideas of the questioning of our idols, baleful ambition, the kind of fib that sells, and the machine that sells it… I was hooked, okay!
But I wouldn't recommend it to those who don't somewhat dig DC, Marvel, Watchmen etc. It's mostly entertaining across the 8 eps, but the satire isn't sustained, the humor is hit or miss, at times as if the writer googled “jokes” and went with the first link. It gets too sappy, wonky, exposition heavy around Ep5, tho it snaps back with wit in Ep6 and those behind-the-scenes bits. I just didn't really buy that main motley unit and their end goal, what exactly was motivating them besides Butcher's revenge..... and Hughie had lame taste in music dammit! And some of the MeToo stuff felt shoehorned (besides that first scene, The Deep is actually a likable dope).
Technical quality is on par (or close enough) with Marvel/DC, but I also wanna note how the digital sharpness and all those facial pores in the close-ups are distracting and for the actors humiliating! which is a nit-pick I know. And last thing, the casting for this show isn't great - from principal to side characters, it takes getting used to, I thought, otherwise Shue is pretty good, Starr (sub-Fassbender) has his moments, and prob the best perf I’ve seen from Karl Urban….
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Post by LaraQ on Aug 12, 2019 17:34:19 GMT
Absolutely loved this,it is easily one of the best shows of the year.The second season can't come soon enough.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 12, 2019 22:51:28 GMT
Thru episode 5 and this is definitely one the most entertaining things I’ve seen in a while.
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Post by pupdurcs on Aug 17, 2019 17:25:33 GMT
Magnificent show.
Amazon Prime have really entered into the big leagues with this one. The production values, the writing, the performances...it's proper Event Television....the type of thing that you'll be feeling left out of the cultural conversation if you miss. If the Streaming Wars are bringing us shows of this level and quality, then who are we to complain. I think by Season 2, this show feels like it should be a legit cultural phenomenon ( in the Game Of Thrones, Stranger Things sense of the word).
My only complaint (and it might feel like a nitpick) is for a show that seems to pride itself of showing how superheroes might exist in the real world....it felt exceptionally unrealistic that they just relied upon corporate loyalty to keep someone as insanely powerful as Homelander under control. One would assume a company like Vought would also have the means to kill all their "Supes", which would be a much more believable deterrent to keep the likes of Homelander and The Seven in line.
Anyway, good luck to HBO's Watchmen, because this show may have well and truly stolen it's thunder. They deal with very similar territory, but I can't see The Boys being bettered . As it is, this show just seriously one-upped Netflixs' Umbrella Academy, which was their big intro into doing original (non-Marvel) material of their own in the genre.
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Post by pupdurcs on Aug 17, 2019 17:34:01 GMT
It just looks like a lot of swearing and edginess masquerading as satire. The idea is fun, but I don't think I want to watch this one. It's much, much better than that. Honestly, it's the best made show I've seen on television this year.
None of the swearing or edginess crosses the line into gratuitous either. Feels like a perfect fit for the material and the world it's supposed to inhabit
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Post by AKenjiB on Aug 20, 2019 18:47:44 GMT
Really interesting show. The trailers made it look like a dark comedy with the main focus being lots of cursing and gore, but it’s a lot more complicated. That is a part of the show but I wouldn’t really call it a comedy, just a show that has some dark humor in it. Plenty of scenes are played very seriously and have a LOT of disturbing undertones and implications. Most of the characters have certain complexities but they do some really horrible things to each other. I never thought a superhero show would have such a realistic portrayal of workplace sexual assault.
Anthony Starr is probably the MVP. Looking a bit like Chris Evans doesn’t hurt either. The way he portrays his public persona vs. his private persona is especially intriguing to watch.
I’m not going to spoil it but the airplane scene isn’t gonna leave my mind anytime soon.
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Post by pupdurcs on Aug 21, 2019 14:12:02 GMT
Really interesting show. The trailers made it look like a dark comedy with the main focus being lots of cursing and gore, but it’s a lot more complicated. That is a part of the show but I wouldn’t really call it a comedy, just a show that has some dark humor in it. Plenty of scenes are played very seriously and have a LOT of disturbing undertones and implications. Most of the characters have certain complexities but they do some really horrible things to each other. I never thought a superhero show would have such a realistic portrayal of workplace sexual assault. Anthony Starr is probably the MVP. Looking a bit like Chris Evans doesn’t hurt either. The way he portrays his public persona vs. his private persona is especially intriguing to watch. I’m not going to spoil it but the airplane scene isn’t gonna leave my mind anytime soon. Starr is great and deserves all the praise that comes his way, but for me the MVP is Karl Urban. I feel he almost carries the show, and elevates other actors in the process.I feel he makes those he acts with better.Starr has a great arc as a hero who is secretly a villain, but Urban is threading a lot of different layers. He's comedy relief and heavy drama at the same time. You have no idea what his moral compass is (or if he has one), even though you want to believe he's a good guy because he's funny and charismatic and didn't let a plane full of people die. But you feel he's willing to commit serious atrocities to achieve his goals. A very complex part to pull off as essentially the show's leading man. New Zealand should be proud though. With both Urban and Starr giving the standout performances here, Kiwis are really having a moment in acting.
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Post by stephen on Aug 21, 2019 14:33:42 GMT
I feel like we need to be talking more about Jack Quaid. Hughie is the heart and soul of the series, in both the comics and the TV show, and while I had my doubts about casting the spawn of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan for this role, I must say, he has absolutely nailed it. The “You played my butt like jazz” scene is one of the best moments of 2019 TV.
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Post by pupdurcs on Aug 21, 2019 15:02:40 GMT
I feel like we need to be talking more about Jack Quaid. Hughie is the heart and soul of the series, in both the comics and the TV show, and while I had my doubts about casting the spawn of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan for this role, I must say, he has absolutely nailed it. The “You played my butt like jazz” scene is one of the best moments of 2019 TV. Quaid is great. I actually do really like it when Hollywood legacies like Quaid (and John David Washington as another recent example) prove to be the real deal in terms of ability. Nepotism offspring will always get chances, but as long as they are very good or great, It's a lot less offensive. Anyway, I'm of the opinion that the whole ensemble is strong. Even Chace Crawford, whom I considered a pretty weak actor based on the work he did on Gossip Girl. But he's well cast as a somewhat pathetic Deep. The actresses who play Starlight and Queen Meave bring it. Elisabeth Shue is fantastic. The guy who plays Frenchy...we could go on. A-Train is good.Kimiko is good. It's a strong cast. Quaid is your relatable entry point character....as good as he is in the role, I don't think his performance requires anything near the degree of difficulty that Urban and Starr need to realise their parts, so that's why I'd place them above him. But Quaid is definitely one of several actors on this show who have announced themselves as a talent.
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Post by DeepArcher on Oct 17, 2019 17:49:58 GMT
Just got around to finishing the first season, and I really dug it. It's such a great concept and the universe it creates for itself is just so on-point and colorful. The ensemble is uniformly excellent, standouts for me are Quaid, Urban, Shue -- and especially Anthony Starr who gives one of the most genuinely chilling villain performances I've seen in awhile and is always such a compellingly watchable presence whenever he's on screen. It's an incredibly ambitious show that also has the potential to expand further in future seasons, which I love, and it manages its many moving parts quite well ... some weak spots for me, I think "The Female" has been kind of lame so far, The Deep is borrrrring when he's on his own ... but for the most part the characters are all great and I enjoy watching the balancing act of showcasing them all. It definitely walks a tonal tightrope that can sometimes be a bit whiplash-inducing, and I think this is one of the very few times I'll ever say it should stick more with being straight and gritty than being absurd, as it generally works much better as the former than the latter ... but that said it does even have "dark" moments that go too far, the airplane scene in ep. 4 which is one of the most memorable set-pieces of the season (maybe *the* moment of the season) and is incredibly compelling but also the sequence gets milked so long that it just kinda gets sadistic ... misery porn thrown into a show that otherwise has a nice comical, comic book-y edge and it's sort of jarring. Also, the Hughie/Annie stuff got unbearably cliche in the last couple episodes and just kinda had me rolling my eyes ... but I think that's about where my negatives end ... it's a great show that capitalizes upon such a creative concept & almost always brings a great level of intensity and intrigue to every episode. Looking forward to seeing where it goes next.
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Post by LaraQ on Sept 11, 2020 11:49:34 GMT
Anyone else watching the second season?.I'm loving it so far.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Sept 11, 2020 12:48:59 GMT
Anyone else watching the second season?.I'm loving it so far. First 3 eps were really great. I have to adjust to the weekly drops now. Otherwise easily would have finished it last weekend.
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Post by pupdurcs on Sept 11, 2020 13:13:43 GMT
Anyone else watching the second season?.I'm loving it so far. Yep. This show is incredible, and it's easily maintaining the standard of the first season so far. The Boys is easily on track to becoming that kind of cultural phenom show I talked about, like Game Of Thrones. Staggering the release of episodes will help it as well. Do wonder if it'll finally come to the attention of awards bodies with this season?
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Post by Allenism on Sept 18, 2020 17:29:51 GMT
Wasn't even on my radar, but I gave the pilot a go and now I'm almost finished S1. This show really has no business being this good.
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 25, 2020 0:47:51 GMT
Spin-off announced: deadline.com/2020/09/the-boys-spinoff-fast-track-development-amazon-record-season-2-launch-ratings-1234584256/ Set at America’s only college exclusively for young adult superheroes (and run by Vought International), the Untitled Boys Spinoff is described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive Supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. Part college show, part Hunger Games — with all the heart, satire and raunch of The Boys.
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Post by Allenism on Sept 26, 2020 23:20:17 GMT
This just might be the funniest line I've heard all year.
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Post by pupdurcs on Oct 2, 2020 21:24:36 GMT
Called it that this show would start becoming a cultural phenomenon as a show by it's second season, and it seems to be doing just that. Now it's outpacing top Netflix content in ratings, a streaming service with a far bigger subscriber base than Amazon. The Boys is Event TV.
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Post by mhynson27 on Oct 5, 2020 3:34:34 GMT
This just might be the funniest line I've heard all year. Colby actually improvised that line.
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Post by pupdurcs on Oct 11, 2020 2:07:09 GMT
Damn, that season finale was nuts!!! The head popper reveal was What a show! Pretty level with the first season for me. I feel like Antony Starr was running away with the MVP award after the first few episodes, and it wasn't even close. His performance was dominating the show in the first half of the season. But they gave so much juicy and emotional material to Karl Urban on the back stretch of the season and he nailed it so well, that once again it became hard to seperate Urban and Starr. Fuck it, they can be co-MVP's and it'd be lovely if both of them could be nominated for Emmys and all the TV awards going. This isn't to undersell the rest of the cast, who are uniformly excellent. Karen Fukahara, Erin Moriarty, Aya Cash, Laz Alonso, Jack Quaid, Dominique McEglliot, Jesse T Usher, Chace Crawford, Nate Mitchell, Tomer Capone all without exception delivered terrific performances as the remaining members of The Boys and The Seven. Actors outside the main groups like Giancarlo Esposito, Shantel Van Santen, Colby Minifie, Shawn Ashmore, Claudia Doumit and many more I'm probably forgetting do strong work as well. Such a huge sprawling cast with no real weak links, and it would fully deserve to win the SAG ensemble drama cast award.
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Post by therealcomicman117 on Oct 13, 2020 14:17:29 GMT
Just finished up the series, I agree with the general opinion that it's great. What most impressed me is how it manages to tackle its various story threads in a competent and surefire way, without ever getting into confusing or muddling territory. Some great satire throughout too, and the show feels well equipped to address superhero culture in general in a much different light. The second season finale in particular went in a direction I didn't expect it to.
In regards to the cast I think most of the lead actors are good, but Anthony Starr and Jesse T. Usher probably impressed me the most, especially the later, since I've only seen him in bland roles prior to this, so seeing him play a more complex character then usual was a treat. The writing and direction certainly helps too.
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Oct 13, 2020 14:45:05 GMT
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