The Boys ( 2019) TV SHow.

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Star – Karl Urban My Rating **** Channel - Prime Video Genre – Crime/Caper Run Time 4 Seasons Certificate – 18 Country – U.S Awards – 22 wins & 87 nominations EMMYS - 1 It’s probably fair to say this is Amazons most outrageous big budget adult TV streamer to date as the superhero genre is quite literally ripped apart in front of your eyes. This is not suitable for kids a righteous comedy that has just about anything sadistic you can think of. If Marvel was X-Rated and the directors on crack then they wouldn’t even get close. You name the superheroes can do it, exploding heads, incestuous shape-shitfers, tentacles galore! ===The Plot=== It’s the present day on planet Earth. The Vought Corporation‘s prime product is ‘The Seven’, an elite team of superheroes, headed by the gloriously camp Homelander (Anthony Starr), the dude with the most superpowers and seemingly indestructible. With a slick marketing operation the money is pouring in. Alongside Homelander he has an ever changing crew as superheroes come and go with a wide array of powers. Starlight (Erin Moriarty) the latest to be enrolled, a hometown girl from the Midwest. Together they carry out standard crime busting and super villain killing stuff as they protect the world’s innocent, or so it seems. It’s not revealed how they got their super powers until later on so I won’t be spoiling that for you. When local Joe Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) sees his girlfriend splattered in front of him by one of them, A-Train (Jessie T Usher), who can run at 3000 mph, he sets out to sue Vought. But a man called Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) turns up. He hates ‘supes’, as he calls them, and slowly recruits Hughie to the gang of superhero fighters the cockney Englishman is gathering around him. They tell Hughie of all the crime and killing the supers commit and cover up, terrible atrocities and living an opulent life off the back of it. And so the team set out to bring down The ‘Supes’ over the four seasons of this entertaining anti superhero Dromedy. ---The Result---- It’s hard not to get hooked on this righteously entertaining show as you can’t wait for the next outrageous act from our debauched superheroes. You can imagine the pitch to Amazon producers. All the superheroes go bad and use their powers to be very naughty and even badder. The glorious Karl Urban as the gruff and rough Billy Butcher steals the show, his quotes the star of The Boys by far. If you see a T-Shirt with C*NT on it, it’s probably from The Boys. The cast reflects the worldwide audience it’s pitched at with just about every nationality and religion present. Some scenes were cut for some markets for sensitive regions but America and the west get the whole shebang. The female characters tend to be two-dimensional with the guys getting the best lines but this show is aimed more at the lads. As I say it’s pretty outrageous and very little is off limits, some scenes unforgettable, and much gratuitously violent and joyously silly fun for the sake of it. I would say its un-miss able TV if you can get Amazon. Guys, you need to see this. It’s TV for grownups and who wouldn’t want to send up the now tired Marvel Universe? ===RATINGS=== Imdb.com – 7.1/10.0 (40,200votes) Rottentomatos.com 91% critic’s approval Metacritic – 78% ===Trailer=== https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14044212/