The Boys Season 2 || Review

The Boys Season 2: Ludicrous, thrilling and reality-dissenting

The Boys Season 2 premiered on 4 September

We are in an era where anything super sells. With comic books being adapted into movies and TV shows one after another. The Superhero genre has become more diverse than it ever was. There is a Superhero for everyone.

Amazon entered this genre last summer with its exclusive show 'The Boys'. And is now back with season 2 of the show, which premiered on 4 September.

This R-rated superhero show is now bigger and better than ever. In season 2 The Boys supercharge itself on the pops of gore, the absurd, and the unpleasant dimensions of its celebrity superheroes and takes the show to the even more extreme. 

The Boys gang in the show

The thrilling three-episode premiere of the show balances the more comical elements with deeper character and social studies and all these elements work together to make an even more compelling story than season 1.

Can organs exploding and blood spraying violence be a bit gratuitous? Yep, it can be. But The Boys' with their gray characters and anti-hero protagonist continues to be a refresher for those with a Marvel Fatigue.

'The Boys' relies on its audience's ability to perceive exploding heads and splattering blood as "fun". It is a kind of show that unrelentingly asks its audience to be down for whatever bananas nonsense it can think of.

Homelander and Starlight in The Boys

'The Boys' is most central and most effectively a show about superheroes, capitalism, and consumer culture. Homelander (Antony Starr) is a merge of Captain America and Superman. He is the leader of an Avenger-styled team called the Seven and he is most invested in maintaining a shining superhero image. And he is also the biggest, scariest sociopath on the show. I have to tell you, Antony Starr, as Homelander is terrifying. Whenever he is on the screen I get the feeling of something bad happening. The Seven are introduced with a new member Stormfront (Aya Cash). She undermines the popularity of The Homelander. She has a huge social media following and speaks her heart out and delivers a more authentic human-like performance in all of the superheroes' press appearances. The title for "whose the most sociopathic" has tough competition on 'The Boys' and thus by the end of the three-episode premiere of the show Stromfront's true motives and actions become surprising.

What's different for The Boys is that while superheroes have literal powers they are even more obsessed with "soft power". The supes (shows abbreviation for superheroes) are obsessed to make a better brand of themselves. The corporate overlords of the Supes Vought International are like any other company who wants to capitalize on anything and everything they can. As we see in season one when it is revealed to the world that Deep (Chace Crawford) sexually assaulted Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Vought comes up with a movie to capitalize on the situation.

In Season 2 Deep is dipressed and trying to make his way back in Thr Seven

'The Boys' is so good in contouring it's awful superheroes and their corporate overlords Vought International that its storytelling about the titular Boys feels like a tiny bit of a let-down. Don't get me wrong Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) with a sniper in season 1 was the most badass thing in a show with crazy people with superpowers. But you get the sense that the show's most nightmare giving fuel is devoted to the Supes.

But still, Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) are completely effective as the sort-of leaders of a group of nobodies with a mission to uncover the ugly truths of Vought and the Supes. The Boys do their best to pull off unusual and desperate attempts to uncover world-shattering information about the Supes that will change how everyone looks at superheroes. But it feels like all they do is show us, the viewers how fucked up the Supes and Vought are. Did I tell you about exploding heads? It is really fucked up.

Stormfront the newest member if the seven meeting Homelander and Queen Maeve

In the season 2 Boys are relegated to a basement or bunker of sorts, where they are hiding from the Seven and Vought after the events of season 1. Their isolation early on doesn't make for an engaging start but it does help in some serious character development especially for the Female (Karen Fukuhara). Though she does not utter a word the show reveals some interesting points about her past which I won't share here to keep this review spoiler-free. Her friendship with Frenchie (Tomer Kapon) continues to develop and it is one of the more tender-hearted relationships of the story.

One thing that might pull me out of the show is how Amazon has decided to deliver the show on a weekly base. The first three episodes were premiered on 4 September and the rest of them will be available to watch one by one on Fridays until October 9. With people's attention span decreasing it be difficult for many to wait for a whole week for another episode and also the episodes of The Boys are longer touching the upwards of 45-minutes each with some over 60-minutes.

The Female and Hughie

All in all the show is a great watch it is still early to give a final verdict about Season 2 after watching only three episodes. But from what I have watched, season 2 is up for a great start. Now I am interested to know what Jeff Bezos thinks of the show. As it is essentially about a powerful corporate and their ability to control.

This is the Review if The boys Season 2 Premier, which includes the first three episodes. The Full  Review will be published later.

    

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