Despite Da Amazon saying it was on my watch list, it wasn't. Nor could I find
it. I stumbled around blindly for a while until I hit another ad for it, and
got in that way.
All 8 eps seemed available yesterday. I watched the first two. I found no way
to not have it skip over the end and start the next ep prematurely.
The Boys is based on a 13 year old comic book series I'd never heard of. It's
a very very very VERY thinly disguised JUSTICE LEAGUE riff in a world where
superheroes are corporatized and privatized and commercialized. The JL are
called The Seven. Superman, Batman, Da Flash, Wonder Woman and Aquaman are
immediately obvious. The other two are an invisible guy and a new replacement
cute naive blonde girl with light powers, neither of whom have strong JL
counterparts.
The Boys starts with the biggest advisory I've ever seen:
The following program is intended for mature
audiences and contains Adult Content, Graphic
Language, Graphic Violence, Nudity, Strong Sexual
Content and Rape. Viewer discretion is advised.
TV-MA
AC Adult Content
GL Graphic Language
GV Graphic Violence
N Nudity
SSL Strong Sexual Content
RP Rape
Yikes!
The nudity is of course Politically Correct nudity - male only - and the rape
is more what Dante would would called coercion by deception. The violence is
there, but it's played more for laughs.
There are superheroes all over the place, apparently occurring naturally. The
corporation signs up the ones it deems most marketable. The corporate
handlers are amazingly incompetent, just tossing the newbies into situations
where they're expected to say or do a specific thing, without bothering to
tell them what that specific thing *is*
None of those are 'The Boys' (I only found out who is considered 'The Boys'
via outside reading).
'The Boys' are a group against the corrupt superhero culture. One is Trek's
Dr. McCoy 2009, Karl Urban. Another is the Simon Pegg character, except Pegg
aged out, so he plays his original character's father. The guy playing his
son reminds me of Harry Potter from Sanctuary.
And that's as much as I'm going to say at this point, because I think that if
you think you might be interested in this, you should watch if, and you'll
almost certainly enjoy it.
It looks great. What Ubi would call fabulous sets, costumes, FX work.
Elizabeth Shue as a corporate toady rounds out the people I recognize, but
everybody *feels* familiar and does a good job. It's not a comedy, but it got
me to laugh out loud several times.
It's still not on my watch list, BTW. Sheesh.
SuperFred-Bob sez "check it out!"
Excelsior!
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