Over the last couple of weeks, I've been catching up on season 3 of The Boys on Amazon Prime Video.
So here we go. This is my review of The Boys:
People 'SPLODE!
The end.
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OK, maybe I should elaborate a bit.
The Boys is set in a world where super heroes are real and that's not a good thing.
Supes are for the most part dysfunctional narcissists who are micro managed by the Vought Corporation. These super powered beings don't spend a lot of time doing hero stuff but mostly shooting movies and TV shows about themselves to serve as propaganda.
When super powers intersect with normal people, bad things happen. Do you know what happens when a super speeder hits people at super speed?
People 'SPLODE!
Guess what happens when a supe with heat vision zaps a normal person. Yep...
People 'SPLODE!
Then there's the woman whose power is to actually make people 'SPLODE!
Poor Hughie Campbell thought Victoria Neuman was one of the good guys, a congresswoman who publicly opposes Vought. Turns out she's secretly the adopted daughter of Vought CEO Stan Edgar and uses her power to assassinate Vought's enemies. And what is her super power?
She can make people 'SPLODE!
It's not a side effect of her power. It is her power.
Meanwhile Billy Butcher who hates supes more than anyone actually uses a Vought compound to temporarily give himself powers. Being bulletproof? Good.
Out of control heat vision?
Makes people 'SPLODE!
OK, this is a sick one. What happens when a guy with shrinking powers goes inside his gay lover's dick then the cocaine in his nose makes him sneeze and he suddenly expands?
People 'SPLODE!
Damn this is a sick show!
Meanwhile, Homelander, our Superman expy, is in a pyschotic spiral. Stan Edgar makes Starlight co-captain of the Seven because her poll numbers are better than Homelander's. Homelander's taken a hit with the revelation that his super powered girlfriend Stormfront was a Nazi.
No, not one of those polo shirt wearing Tiki torch toting wannabe Nazis who marched on Charlottesville. No, Stormfront was an actual fucking German fucking Nazi who was best buds with Adolf fucking Hitler.
Homelander's son flash fried Stormfront with his heat vision last season, leaving Stormfront with half of a deformed face like she's Two Face or Jonah Hex and a burned up torso with only 1 good arm.
Which she uses to give Homelander a hand job. Yuck!
Stormfront commits suicide by biting off her own tongue which is how Hillary Swank's character takes her own life in Million Dollar Baby and I've never seen Million Dollar Baby so I don't know how I know that but I wish I didn't because damn, that's depressing as fuck.
Stormfront's death is just one damn thing too many for Homelander and he goes on live national TV to tell us exactly what he thinks of everyone. Homelander is Jesus and only he can save everyone!
This is not quite the deal breaker you might think it would be with the American public.
What or who could possibly stop Homelander now? The answer lies with a hero from long ago, a patriotic themed super hero known as Soldier Boy.
Enter Jensen Ackles from Supernatural.
The Boys continues to entice with nuanced character work and a detail examination of the effects of fame and the impact of propaganda.
And it continues to disgust when people 'SPLODE!
Until next time, remember to be good to one another and try to keep it down in there, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here.
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