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 alright so of course as always share
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