The Boys Amazon REVIEW

I like this show so much and I’m so
excited to tell you about it and I’m
also so nervous that it’s not gonna do
well because the ad campaign does not do
the show justice and I’m a little bit
nervous for this review I am so many
things to discuss with you
we’re gonna do a spoiler review for sure
I think I think the show might blow up
and be really a big deal even though it
doesn’t seem that way now
in fact I tweeted it about it the other
day and many of you were like I totally
forgot this show even existed what the
hell
Amazon support this it deserves it but
anyway we’ve a lot to discuss here and I
look forward to hearing your own
thoughts about it down below
Lara lots of surprises on this show
though please don’t spoil anything in
the comments and if you can’t help
yourself at least mark it as a spoiler
comment alright here we go so where I
started my note says is that it would be
hard for me to like a piece of
entertainment movie or TV show more than
I like the boys although to be fair I am
the perfect audience for this show I
even wrote my own comic book
deconstructing superheroes so yeah I
think I really would say it’s a perfect

/> show so Amazon was kind enough to give
me the entire first season you know not
this halfsies stuff like netflix does
i’ve watched the whole thing eight
episodes in advance and i binge them as
fast as one possibly could
while also covering comic-con now again
this is a non-spoiler review but I will
say and again don’t worry this is non
spoiler but the show the season ends on
an incredible cliffhanger like it
actually made me a little upset and
that’s why I’m telling you about it up
front I was like what the hell I love
the show so much I was like am I ever
gonna find out what happens next and
then I found out they are filming the
second season right now which also has
not been I think well enough publicize
they should have gotten right out there
this is definite to season er so you
know cuz so often we’ve seen shows or
movies set up this amazing next chapter
that we never get to see
I’m looking at you a leader battle angel
but that we’re gonna get to see the
story continue so I just want you to
know that so you’re not as infuriated as
I was when I saw the end of episode 8 oh
my god it’s so good I can’t wait for you
to see it all right so I would say that
the boys is the Avengers meets Breaking
Bad how’s that for a logline
I love it and I think that’s again I’m
not overselling it I think it’s totally
accurate you might be like really grace
isn’t really that good it is and if
there’s an entertainment god it’ll be a
huge hit you know Amazon to Jack Ryan I
thought was pretty darn good but I never
totally caught on they swear they’re
making more of it I think this should be
like mrs. Maisel big although even that
doesn’t seem to be as big as it should
be odd this should be like stranger
things again if there’s an entertainment
god but again the reason I’m worried is
that the ad campaign for this show does
not do it justice it totally focuses on
the boys where is the actual show is
perfectly balanced focusing equally on
the boys but also the 7 the 7 is the
magic sauce I’m like why aren’t you
playing this up more and the show
structure is actually pretty brilliant
with all due respect to the comic it’s
far more sophisticated and wider in
scope
I read the comic at least like the first
trade uh and I thought it was solid but
it’s nowhere near as good as this show
basically you have two newbies joining
each group so you have Jack Quaid’s
Hughie joining a group of people whose
law whose lives have been ruined by
superheroes and then there’s Erin
Moriarty starlight who is joining said
group of superheroes right and there’s a
lot of enter and I don’t wanna give
anything away I oh my god again so
well-written incredibly well-crafted and
I’d like to point out that there are
also shades here obviously of Justice
League not just from the 7 which is you
know there’s a little bit of you know
obviously homeland er is Superman meets
Captain America but for the most part it
is a take of a Justice League but that
that a mix indie comics the Justice
League is the motor the years has been
the most iconic so it’s been the most
again deconstructed by other writers but
not only is that
the seven like the Justice League and
membership but also the boys are a bit
like Batman a group of Batman right with
it without the money vigilantes trying
to figure out how to take down people
with superpowers right and as I said
it’s all incredibly sophisticated Eric
Kripke
and if supernatural is this good I can
see why some of you love it so much and
why it’s been around for so long it’s
been a life too long I can’t get into it
it’s too late but I’m on here day one
pre day one because I got the episodes
in advance but Kripke has crafted a show
that organically cover I love Kripke you
know officer Kripke that’s a great name
but anyway it organically covers so much
ground in a very tight eight episodes
there’s no lag there’s no episode where
you’re like you could have cut this one
instead I’m like give me more episodes
from it covers the business side of
superheroes how the government would
actually feel about them
celebrity religion and how hard it is to
actually save people oh my god oh my god
can’t wait to discuss it with you also
there’s a really interesting mystery
really interesting mystery which makes
the whole thing so compelling and again
to see the whole thing from both sides
from the top of the seventh hour to the
people down below on the ground well
that’s not only interesting but it’s
also a lot of fun also Amazon and Sony
the two big companies behind this show
have spent the money also kudos to Seth
Rogen this is a real home run here he
has a quick cameo which I thought was
very funny talking about the VC you
thought is the name of the company that
runs the seven so they make movies too
about the seven and so obviously that’s
a take on the MCU I thought that was
really clever but anyway they spent like
a lot of money not a movie level of
money but the show is smartly written so
there’s never a reason for there to be
any huge battles right but there are key
sequences with a surprising amount of
VFX and a wide variety of locations that
all brings this superhero world vividly
and convincingly to life also they spent
the money on the 7 to make them seem
real from their costumes to their
headquarters to their ad
I love that I never once had the magic
of the show broken I was never like oh
you couldn’t afford that or oh I know
why you did that I was it was like it
was exactly like reading a really good
indie comic and I think that’s fantastic
because I’ve described the best Avengers
movies like what it’s like to read a
really good mainstream comic and on that
note it’s very exciting to me that
mainstream audiences who sadly don’t
read comics although they’re a little
weak these days some of them are still
very good but to see mainstream
audiences who have fallen in love with
superhero movies get to discover this
side of comics that the rest of us know
where mainstream superheroes are again
deconstructed that’s just really
exciting and special to me I love that
in addition to the writing a huge part
of what makes this show work is the cast
here are my faves right and we’ll go
into more detail for the spoiler review
we I can’t talk about everybody here but
in the spoiler review we’ll talk about
everybody alright so number one antony
star is homeland ER Wow star turn I
can’t believe this guy it doesn’t hurt
that he looks eerily like Chris Evans is
Captain America Plus a lot of what he
says here echoes the conversations in
civil war even if you’re on Team cap I
might be a little more inclined to see
evil Captain America but I think anyone
would love this performance because star
creates his own amazing character from
the way he moves his cape to sit down I
love that little quirk it’s fantastic –
what through the way he just looks at
people I mean Wow still waters run deep
indeed I love I love evil Superman
stories as many of you know and stars
home Lander is the perfect evil Superman
it’s everything I’ve ever wanted and
unlike a live-action evil Superman story
it’s just amazing also so much neat
vision as some of you also know I love
Superman’s heat vision and they use it
incredibly well and often here wow again
wow wow wow I was like people kind of
watch this show please watch this show
next up Elizabeth Shue is Madeline
Stillwell Stillwell manages the seven
and that’s all I’ll say here but
Stillwell is given some of
the best corporate dialogue I have ever
seen in a movie or TV show this is
actually the way that suits speak and as
you can see it’s a weapon as sharp and
as deadly as any tangible one shoe
delivers each line perfectly as well as
a complex layered performance I think I
really liked and respected I can’t say
too much about it but I really respected
her character I thought it was great I
understood where she was coming from the
next up Jack Wade as Huey what a summer
for the children of famous couples and
while Jack looks mostly like the male
version of meg Ryan in so shots when he
smiles
it’s like Dennis Quaid is trying to get
out it’s a little unnerving actually I
was like whoa like Dennis Quaid just
kind of like pushed through his sons
face I was like ah but overall not
counting that Quaid does a fantastic job
here as someone walking the very thin
line between good guy and bad guy I
really liked his work here and of course
Karl Urban and delightfully mischievious
which is when he’s at his best right
he takes a little bit of a backseat
sometimes but as the show progresses
especially in the season finale you
start to realize that he’s the yang to
home Landers yang don’t worry there are
no spoilers here some of you guys try to
infer things from my spoiler from my
comments and say oh you spoiled it trust
me if you are inferring anything from
that you’re inferring the wrong thing
but anyway you know it’s not so
clear-cut
who’s the good one and who’s the evil
one right I love that and there is much
alike in some ways as they are different
that’s fascinating to me and it really
came together again in the final episode
of this season and so I hope to see more
of that in season 2 chase Crawford also
has a surprisingly interesting role and
I’m surprised at how far he’s willing to
go here throughout the season like his
character is ridiculous and I think the
performance could have come across that
way if Crawford hadn’t committed as
strongly as he does there’s some me to
stuff with his character and again a lot
of Grey’s here they do a really good job
of making situations not seem just
clear-cut black and white then there is
Israeli actor Tomer Capone and Karin
Fuqua Hara katana right who both make
very strong impression
and their supporting roles again I don’t
want to give anything away but
everyone’s good the entire cast is good
I loved every single character and I
also I loved every single actor playing
them I think they’re all amazingly cast
but if I had to be totally honest
Moriarty a starlight and Jesse usher is
a train a train are a bit weak and bland
they just didn’t pop at the level of the
rest of the cast also a Haley Joel
Osment he’s in the trailer so it’s not a
spoiler he has really fun role as well
but those two they just they just
weren’t at the level as everyone else so
sometimes I’d be like I wish this was a
different actor but their roles are both
so well written their power sets so
visually interesting and both are
integral parts of the story and both are
good actors they’re not bad actors it
still works I just if I had if I had
like if I kind wishes to grant I’d
probably tweak them just a little bit
but also shout out to the always fun
Simon Pegg who cameos is Huey’s dad it’s
basically a cameo he’s in a couple of
episodes but the 2006 comic drew Huey to
look like Pegg and if the show had come
out then Pegg would be playing that role
so this was a nice way to still include
him finally warning the show is very
adult okay
full frontal male nudity lots of
actually but no no female frontal nudity
sure that was interesting but full
frontal male nudity lots of extreme
swearing like the top layers of swearing
top levels graphic gore and violence and
some sex scenes towards the end like you
you watch the show and you’re like god
it’s weird the one thing they don’t have
here sex scenes and they kind of make up
for at the end but still not at the
level of the other stuff but I have to
say I never felt that it did any of
those things for shock value they were
always in service of the story plus I
never felt not once they crossed the
line and it’s not anything you wouldn’t
find on HBO but I’m just letting you
know particularly when you decide who to
watch it with so watch the boys I’m
pretty sure it’s gonna be your new
favorite show and then be sure to come
back here for the spoiler review so much
to talk about
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