I never read The Boys, and I honestly don't care to after watching Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg's adaptation of the comic.
It's not that I wasn't a fan; quite the opposite, in fact. But The Boys, the one that's now streaming on Amazon, is such a modern and aggressively human take on superhero stories that I'm worried about getting to know these characters in some other medium and spoiling everything.
The eight-hour first season — I pray there are more, because wow what an ending — introduces a world that actually gives a shit when superheroes screw up. The heroes themselves are untouchable corporate entities, but The Boys fixates on the collateral damage that tends to trail superhuman hijinks. Read more...
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