THE BOYS SEASON 4 | Film Threat Reviews
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- Chris Gore and Alan Ng review season 4 of “The Boys,” now playing on Amazon Prime.
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Resemblance to real events are "unintentional" - they "unintentionally" wrote in Jan 6th references and "make America super again"
@@VespoLiveGaming the major plot lines are form the comics. And you don’t expect them to use current events when fascism is on the rise in America? They should just ignore that? What are you smoking.
@@mrcat3493 without getting into political value judgements - regardless of where the plot points came from, they are clearly intentionally placed there, and the show runners/writers/producers certainly intended to lean into the similarities to current day politics. Good, bad, or otherwise- there was obvious intent.
Fascism on the rise? Lol, you're the one smoking something@@mrcat3493
@@mrcat3493 Fyi fascism is a left leaning ideology, that give more power to the goverment. Ladst time i check the DNC is about more government control.
@VespoLiveGaming they had a character unironcally say womp womp womp. Like it's a Twitter argument. These writers need to go outside and interact with actual people😭🤦♂️
Making Frenchie gay was super gay
He always struck me as being bisexual. But I feel like the overdid the gay story in here just for pandering purposes.
@@nicholascowling7052 I didn't even see it as pandering, just a poor attempt at artificially creating drama with Kimiko. The whole Colin thing was totally pointless and uninspired.
@@thisisfyne The entirety of the show they were playing the "will they get together? won't they?". Then you get your intelligence insulted: "Frenchie, I love you, but we're never going to be a thing". All so he can go pak fudj-e with a guy we have never seen before, and was strickly introduced solely to be a g -a-ey love interest for Frenchie.
wtf wasn’t he in love with kimiko ? Now he likes kawk ? I didn’t even watch season four because I knew where it was headed after three lol
@@nicholascowling7052Really ? I never thought that. He was in love with Kamiko or whatever and he was a playboy in first season. I never got the hint he would like dudes.
You can’t make up for bad writing, ideological bias, political bias and hating the traditional American population with shitty violence
You didn’t even watch the show, Jonathan 😀
@@laverdadescatolica5 u cant even read....
@@kingvejita8827 😀 the things we say to one another 😀
@@JH-ks9oi have you ever even watched the show?
The actor that plays Homelander actually has superpowers in real life...
He's carrying that show all by himself!
So true. Watch a match between a brilliant character and an actor’s performance and inherent personality.
Must be that White privilege I've heard so much about.
Antony Starr
He's great in Banshee too.
He deserves an Emmy. The show would be extremely mid without him.
The show has become a parody about itself.
The Boys are not alright, and I think someone touched them in their bad place. Such sad days.
The forced Frenchie sexuality mini-arc bothered me as well. This show is increasingly too on the nose. Eric Kripke needs to take a page from Matt Stone and Trey Parker: Good Satire skewers both sides.
That's the thing though.......Kripke has TDS and can't help himself. He's a hater.
Hollywood don’t respect the South Park guys. Gina carano mention this, egos are too strong
Its wild that season 1 has a higher audience score than critics score, but then season 4 has a critics score twice that of the audience score.
Its almost like critics are really just political activists in cosplay
What I've found USUALLY, like on Rotten Tomatoes, if the critics vs audience gap is HUGE, if it leans Critics it means one thing FORM OVER FUNCTION, and vice versa. Form being, it's either political, pretentious, and or artsy for the sake of being artsy. Where the other is usually, just silly fun, no in your face messaging, just fun. That's my trick to reading Rotten Tomato scores. Majority of the time it pans out that way. Rarely will I find a critics high audience low movie good. Unless I'm going into a movie for "pretentiousness" like a Wes Andersen flick, then I'll usually side with the Audience. Sometimes I want to feel like a fancy boy and other times a silly boy.
Season 1 was so good. The writing was superb. But with every season the writing has gotten worse with season 4 being garbage. I'm with Chris, I still watched because I'm a fan of the characters, especially Homelander. I know season 5 will most likely be trash because now the show is violence, gore, and over the top sexual stuff for shock value and they keep trying to one up the previous. My expectations are so low now and I just hope the series finale has a good ending.
So the octopus can be in bed for a while, but the tank breaks and dies within minutes???
I was wondering about that as well... glad I'm not the only one that noticed that. It was strange.
i think there was a tarp with water on it on the bed. i would have to go back and double check
@@bloodlinefilms and the floor/bottom of the tank would have also been all wet
An octopus can typically survive out of water for 20 to 30 minutes
@@debestcanadian listen i was toasted when i saw that episode but im pretty sure the implication was he busted the tank and closed the door behind him so she would eventually die.
They need to not focus on "modern politics" and instead focus on timeless issues/values. This is going to date the show hard in the future, especially with name dropping modern politicians and events. Plus I watch this stuff for escapism, not to be hit over the head with liberal preaching. BRING BACK SOLDIER BOY!!! MAKE THE BOYS GREAT AGAIN!!!
Seems like Soldier Boy is coming back for S5, per mid credits scene.
This
That's what I wrote in my IMDB review. Like the Vought politics was great, the "we're creating super villains, so we can sell our heroes to fight them" was actually really interesting. The whole "Cops target minorities" story line in season 3 was annoying. The neutering of Starlight was annoying. And I'm just either getting too old, but the crass without substance is annoying. Really episode one, starts with "Antman" going inside another man's meatus, then being tricked to expand while halfway down? COOL, not. This is why I didn't like that Cartoon superhero show they had. I don't mind trash, but sell it as trash, don't sell trash as high art. I like a good Troma flick every once in a while, but it's not pretending to be Sophie's Choice. AND YES, I would watch a Troma version of Sophie's Choice.
I loved season one and two, season three felt like a chore and by the time season four came around I just didn’t care anymore. And the more I hear about it the less I wanna even finish the series off.
I love that they took a great strong female character like Annie, and decided in Season 3 to just handicap her and make her irrelevant when Huey started to take the super hero juice. Wow, how progressive and ultra feminist of you guys.
No show no matter how good can produce more than 3 seasons of quality tv these days
The Bear is doing pretty well.
Game of thrones seasons 1-5 are good, that's somewhat recent
That's because the guy that creates the shows initially gets pushed out after the show gets popular because he isn't of the same mind politically as the rest of Hollywood.
Stranger things put 2 seasons in the bullpen ahead of time by making 2 garbage seasons in a row(2/3)
@@jeffn4836he said MORE than 3, and The Bear season three was trash.
After enduring Mando season 3, I wait for reviews on seasons for all shows to avoid wasting my time
It's a real shame the series managed to go so far downhill this season.
This season? It's been going downhill since season 2.
THIS SEASON? Where were you for Season 2 and 3? 2 showed signs of it, 3 CEMENTED its demise.
@@tdata545 S3 had its issues. But the strongest story part of it was Frenchie and Kemiko. They were building up a great love story between them. They were so in love they were about to leave The Boys.
And then to open up S4 with Kemiko saying I DON'T care for you, is AWFUL.
Regarding Erin's nudity, they had a cut between seeing her face and her nude.
Why did they have a cut from her getting up to her being naked?
A body double would be a really good reason why.
So if it's not a body double, bad editing on the producers part there. Because I will forever wonder about it.
I appreciate your POV Chris. I will not give money, nor attention/views to folks who hate me & wish me nothing but harm & ill-will.
See that's why I pirate. Even ultra mid and preachy The Boys is still more worth my curiosity than 70% of TV these days.
Exactly it wasn't made for us apparently people with moral values
All I'm going to remember from this season is how much the people making this show hate conservatives, which is obviously a LOT.
Their hatred makes us stronger. Makes me like Trump even more.
Mothers Milk looked so different in the 4th season I had to look up on IMDb if they actually replaced him. He looked so so different.
I heard on CLIP of an interview that it was planned for mothers milk to loose weight due to stress of being head of the boys.
Me too!!
shaving the beard was a big part of it
Saw a panel interview where he and A Train actor were on the panel, and I didn't recognize him as Mothers Milk
Yeah ditto. His size was critical to his character. The fact it looked like he could beat Butcher up played a HUGE role in the story. No writing was necessary. I could feel it.
But now his small size...he isn't intimidating at all.
But it wasn't just him who shrank. It was like everybody. Black Noir too.
When it gets to a point where I see an a character on screen who I have no idea who they are because they look SOOO different from how they did the prior episode season, that's bad.
Had to look away everytime I saw Starlight of MM's face
MM is what happens with Ozempic. He lost muscle and fat. He had a real bad case of OZempic face. Starlight is straight up plastic surgery gone wrong. She's even had more done.
@@Martyisrulingah.. that explains it .
Right! They literally look like different people
Does anyone remember when politics weren't part of every single part of life? I member.
The story doesn't progress at all. every season is just the same story beats.
Sounds like The Walking Dead.
I got out after season 3 when everyone all the sudden decided Soldier Boy was the villain and everyone turned on him. Even after he was still ride or die to take out Homelander. It was so stupid.
I feel the same way as Chris. The characters are still pretty goid, and the show is leagues above others in terms of writing and acting. The part that kept knocking me out of the story was how on the nose the political references were.
It made things too specific so it felt like it wasn't just characters dealing with the dangers of certain types of political ideologies or wrestling with political questions, but instead felt like the writers were saying, "This EXACT GROUP of people who exist right now are responsible for the fall of the country in this story."
I'm not a conservative or a 45 supporter but the references were TOO specific. Also, overlaying modern political figures or sensibilities onto preexisting characters (like Homelander) were sometimes at ODDS with the character's personality and gave confusing messages.
Exactly
Stop supporting things where the creators tell you straight up that they hate you. You are just giving them money and power
Exactly we don't hate you back but we would not support this or the new season. So good luck douche
💯
Always listen to your Guts!
S5 gonna be a flop 🤣
Hollywood hasn't had a sense of balance in a long time!
MM and Starlight actors look like coke fiends when Frenchie was supposed to be the junkie
There's so much competition and choice when it comes to entertainment that Hollywood doesn't have the same near monopoly it once did. Which means that shows/films that have disdain for me or want to lecture me don't get my attention any longer. On a related note, according to a recent report by FilmLA, productions are WAY down and unemployment in Hollywood is now up to 16%, or as one guy put it, only 8% lower than the unemployment rate during the Great Depression. These ideologues have cost working class people jobs instead of doing theirs - entertaining.
They’d just accuse you of all sorts of dreaded istophobias tho with their dying breath before they’d acknowledge damage they’ve enabled
It's too bad the young people in Hollywood don't know much about US history. This is what happened to the auto industry in America.
The auto ind. grew exponentially in the 60s and 70s. By the time the 80s rolled around, the auto workers unions were wielding a lot of power. They managed to negotiate some pretty generous contracts over the years and went on strike a few times to demonstrate how much leverage they had. Until eventually, the auto companies started out sourcing and automating away jobs.
Hollywood can't even comprehend the possibility that they could turn into the next Detroit. The Writers and Actors Guild overplayed their hand. Now, they are starting to feel the consequences of that decision. Eventually, people who want to produce good movies and TV are going to setup shop in a different part of the country.
@@RustCole01right, I can only look back at film history and knowledge new Hollywood back in the day
If the next season wasn't the last AND the cliffhanger wasn't so good I'd be out.
Season 1: Great. Season 4: Horrible. The beauty of season 1 was the hero's were flawed, not necessarily evil, and I could relate to them. Also, in season 1, all the violence, horror, obscenity and under-lining humor flowed within and added to the plot. Now, it is just there for shock value.
Dude. Read the comic. It ridicules the right wing. It’s entertaining. The Right is becoming softer than an 8-year old trans boy 😀
@@laverdadescatolica5 lil bro everyone knows the source material is cringier, the show had potential to be better now it's on par with the comics, so sad.
Fr like Ezekiel being a gay freaky pastor added to the story. No one cares about characters being gay but when that's their entire personality (who they're attracted to with nothing else to add) it's just cringe. You never see straight people make being straight their entire personality b/c it's just cringe and ridiculous
DAMN RIGHT ALAN!! From one Asian American dude to another!!!
Frenchie going to the gay was an intrusive insert (pun) in the storyline.
Awesome season!
Seriously, how did people NOT see this direction from the last few seasons?
Season 5 will be an all out bloodbath…
I loved Season 3. Soldier Boy was a great character. Being Homelander's dad was a great plot point.
At least he will be back for season 5.
@@TKinfinity01 Looking forward to it.
He will depower EVERYONE and get killed off with the virus 😀
The pisstake of Hollywood’s ‘I’m sorry’ vids was hilarious.
Season 1 was very good and it's been a steep decline after that
This is the only season out of many seasons where no major plot progression happened
Justify that…..
Um, what?
the only major plot progression was the V tumour killing the VP. pretty much everything else could be left out. the whole season could have been condensed into one episode.
@@ge2719 yeah sure, if you wanted absolutely zero character development for quite a few characters. The only sub-plot that wasn’t well executed this season was Frenchies.
@@mrcat3493 character development?
frenchie is tortured by his past.
mm is the stressed out leader of the group,
starlight is conflicted about her identity as a superhero and good person...
homelander is crazy and grew up in a prison lab.
i could go on, but their character "development" was all just repeating what we already knew.
Such a shame they didn't keep it fair! I stopped after a couple of seasons!
I watched the first three episodes of this season and lost all the will to watch the rest
It gets better after the 4th. I also almost gave up.
Watching this season was like hanging out with someone with myopic terminal Trump Derangement Syndrome. Thankfully Antony Starr and Karl Urban continue to be amazing. Homelander is a Breaking Bad level epic character.
U should see Starr in the show Banshee. Fantastic show. Violent, engaging... plenty of hot naked chicks
Nah, they have made homelander into a buffoon. He was supposed to be an unhinged superman. Now is only unhinged when the script want him to be, rest of the time a bumbling idiot. Now you know he will never kill Hughie or Butcher because plot armor.
TDS isn’t contagious; I know. It just gives you over enlarged kidney stones 😀
Homelander gets more unhinged with every season and with season 5 being the last season I think it's safe to say he's going to snap in season 5 .
It will be interesting to see what Ashley's powers will be from taking the V in the finale.
Modern shows only show lots of pps. Sopranos shows lots of T&A. Probably why Sopranos is still one of the most popular shows on streaming. That and the superior writing.
I’m kinda annoyed with it
Just watch the Venture bros if you want the 'human' side of superheroes, you will be a much better person after
S1 to 3 spend 70% of it's time mocking the raeight, and 30% mocking the laeft. S4 just became hampered by its own tds.
From what I remember, tek knight was one of the few decent supes in the comics. Enough to where he wasn't on the boys' list. I also recall him making efforts to hold those urges back, not hurting his sidekick, but venting them to his butler, who later leaked them.
And, in his final moments, he died saving someone. Plus, it's revealed his urges were brought on by an enourmous toumor, not being a horrid person.
Thank you for watching and reviewing so I don't have to.
Things are done for a reason. The political parties want us divided because it benefits their big donors. The big corporate donors are the problem. Polling shows that Americans are not divided. We don't get what we want because both parties are beholden to the big donors.
They're beholden to the masters of the big donors actually. they're papal knights. Papal knights are knighted for service to the papacy.
Season 4 was pure crap. Couldnt even watch all of the show had to speed forward.
@@DrGonzo57 Same
Soooo… your opinion is not valid?? You didn’t EVEN watch it, dawg??
@@laverdadescatolica5 You're being silly.
Thank you! It wasn't enjoyable at all.
@@laverdadescatolica5 I watched enough of it to form an opinion. Thats called critical thiking
I could tell from the very beginning. That's why I never got past the first episode.
1. Frenchie suddenly gay was the most stupidest side plot ever, it went nowhere.
2. Black Noir speaking should be a crime, it destroyed the menacing character he was before.
Frenchie was in a thruple when he was introduced in season one, so not exactly sudden? Black Noir is a different person.
@@michaelwelch9123and the subplot went where exactly? Nowhere, back to Kimiko which was obvious from when she appeared. So what if Noir is a different guy? He’s a strong silent type which worked perfectly, switching with a blabber mouth didn’t bring anything to the table.
@@krimtim3 I didn't say the subplot went anywhere. It was agonizingly dull, just not out of character. I think if Noir didn't talk, people would have been confused. I watched season 3, so I know Noir is dead, but I can't even remember if they showed who replaced him.
Once Seth Rogan got involved you knew where it was going
The fight between Deep, Black Noir and the Boys was awesome. A-Train to the rescue was a great moment. His arc was the best part of the season.
I LOVED A-Train's arc this season, literally the only good thing about it.
That fight was dumb.
Noir sometimes is bulletproof and sometimes can get knocked by guns.
There was no reason to leave the deep alive. They could have twisted his neck and that would have taken Starlight like 10 more seconds.
The whole season characters had room temprerature IQ because the plot demanded so
@ericknunez8069 I don't remember any other fights this season. sheep and butt munching duplicate dudes I guess
@logicplague yeah wasn't it nice to see someone be a GOOD GUY for once? He literally risked his life so many times to try to stop Vought. It brought great tension and suspense
Homelander isn't patriotic. He's a RINO.
100% Uniparty Corporate Globalist, he'd just as quickly act as a democrat if he needed/wanted to.
True
Yeesh. Cringe.
Lol. There are no RINO’s anymore. They have all gone all maga all the time trying to out-Trump each other. There’s a reason why the show goes hard on the right. Because they have gone so far off the rails. You can make an argument a segment of the left has too….but not nearly as berserk and not in any real numbers.
It took me until the end of the season to remember Sister Sage, Susan Heyward also played Deena Pilgrim in 2015/16's Powers.
I'm pretty sure the MM actor was taking Ozempic for type 2 diabetes and that explained his weight-loss. It's jarring to see on screen the way we do, but it's hard to hold it against anyone in this case.
Really??? The stuff you have to continually take🤦
NO FWKING WAY !!! They were making fun of only 1 side the whole time !? WHAT???
So is there any TH-camr that tears up the boys for being trash ? all i see is shills and '''ehh it wasn't the greatest season'' type of soy
2 episodes worth of story stretched over an entire season...Big Meh Season.
Exactly!
The only good thing about the finale was that it set things up for final season, and most of all, they didn't try to pull an Jan6, with homelanders invading the capitol, I was sure they'd do it
In comics he kills the president in the White House .. sooooo… be prepared for him to do that next season and for you to go …
.. “hey they hate us so much they time travelled to 2012 and wrote the comic to reflect what would happen in 2021??” Right? 😀
The show and the comic are not even similar. I've read the comic and it is not going in that direction at all. Stop gaslighting people.@@laverdadescatolica5
@@laverdadescatolica5 I read the comics. And I'm talking about if they had done an "parody" of January 6, with homelanders...
@@ironkza they probably will. Who cares? What, we CAN’T have art make fun of the real world? Are we that soft now?? Right wing people now are as soft as black/liberals when Obama was President ….
Homelander kills president and then his “followers” rush to White House to “defend” him against THE BOYS or whatever.
Karen Fukuhara has deserved an Emmy nod the last two years. Incredible acting with just her eyes and gestures.
The Boys is still on?
🎵 The Boys are back in town 🎵 😀
Regarding Erin's nudity, they had a cut between seeing her face and her nude.
Why did they have a cut from her getting up to her being naked?
A body double would be a really good reason why.
So if it's not a body double, bad editing on the producers part there. Because I will forever wonder about it.
It's obvious this season was just an interlude
Didnt watch. And have zero feeling that im missing anything. I watch reviews from trusted sources. Im not missing anything.
The Boys season 4 is trying to be like Succession Season 4. The difference with succession is that the writers knew what they were doing with the more political plot of season 4. The Boys writers needed to stick to their guns.
I could barely finish season 3..
Too many sexy women, right? More gay, less women, right? 😀
I mean they’ve stated many times who Homelander is supposed to be an analog for - but wow I never expected it to be SOO on the nose
The last episode should have been the 2nd episode. Nothing happened all season.
I counted like 2-3 episodes this episode. Most of 4, Some of 5, and Most of 8. There's like 5-6 episodes of content missing and it shows
Honestly even though some aspects feel a bit overexaggerated in terms of what the show parodies, I think it hits home for me. The one thing that I was confused about is the fact that they’re still for some reason having Vaught be like Disney when it should’ve immediately flipped over to being a Daily Wire parody once Homelander took over. It was in many aspects by the way with a good example being the forced unhealthy obsession of including Christianity into everything. I feel like the fourth season really picks up halfway with the first half being an absolute bore to get through.
Correct about the latest season of this show being too overtly "on the nose" about its politics.
I wanted to finish this show, but I couldn't make it past episode 2 this time around. R.I.P The Boyz
Jokes on them! I quit watching after season 1!
Yeah the show peaked in season 1. Its all down hill from there.
Like a REAL soft right winger, right? 😀
How the last season ended, I knew we were in for a classic Hollywood political lecture going forward. Can’t make myself even start the new season.
Yeah I agree with Chris, it still had a few good moments and I’m too invested to dump it, the politics make it really tough though.
Moriarty butt that is a body double I assumed
Was lackluster imo
No that was actually her. She’s done topless in 2019
they should have got her a stunt face double.
Man I am so pissed now. I had a feeling that they would go this way but I had a little bit of hope they wouldn't.
That was 100% my thought. The political tone is very lopsided. The writers throw haymakers at the right while doing friendly jabs (Barely) at the left.
It just feels very distracting from a good plot and it feels like the writers are all on some kind of inside joke that the audience isn't involed in.
It got a little heavy-handed for sure. Lampooning the Right is funny. This isn't that.
When watching the show and hearing the term "Starlighters" I checked out lol. No sutbley whatsoever
“Taking shots” is an expression that fails to distinguish satirical ridicule (as typified historically by the court jester) from odious vilification.
I agree with Chris on this. I'm staying with this series because I love all the characters and I'm invested in them too. The Boys started going off the cliff on season 3, but now because of it's heavy-handed critique of the right, has thrown the show off balance and down a cliff.
I would agree that if you lost interest in the show after 2nd or 3rd season then it no point in watching it. I like it still and look forward to see where they take the last season and how it effect Gen V.
It’ll b interesting to see how the cultural shift currently unfolding will effect the boys season 5..
I hope they get away from the allegory a bit.. at this point I kinda just wanna see a more adult mcu in its prime.
This season got carried away on the shock value and often crossed line into truly distasteful
I ended up enjoying the finale more than I expected
@@IstariAzul777 When 45 returns to office the writers TDS will "go to Plaid!"
I'm just disappointed we didn't get to see Firecracker's nipples. Why would that be so much worse than anything else in a show which is already a hard R? That's pretty much the only thing motivating me to continue on to Season 5. I'm afraid, however, that they're going to do something really gory like making her breasts explode as a side effect of her medications.
This show has quickly gone from having a good/funny premise (and providing an interesting social-critique) while subvert-exploring the superhero mythos (like the original Watchmen) to quickly becoming its own worst (and unintentionally-ironic) self-serving (and then ideo-devolved) enemy as it increasingly appears to lack a better understanding of the NUANCE of social-criticism, which should revolve around including a critique of ALL/EVERYTHING.
......where to NOT do so (and increasingly picking a side instead) ironically just results in something more akin to shameless (and biased while self-serving) propaganda (even if simply due to cluelessness while lacking much self-awareness) like SO MANY other badly (or cluelessly?) ideo-subverted (and then devolved) properties nowadays unfortunately.
It also appears to be coasting on easy (and desperate) edge-lordery while it now so over-tries to out gross and debach itself every week.
.....and it strays further from its source like a LOT of 're-imagined' or co-opted properties nowadays while shamelessly stretching itself out for a longer 'quantity over quality' ongoing-rental subscription.
It's still far better than Star Wars : Communist Space Witch Lesbian Victims in Cos-play though but not as good as House of the Dragon (which has its own problems.....like a lack of noble/moral Starks to empathise with ......and/or to counteract all the self-serving victims.....of themselves mostly).
While it had its inconsistencies I thought the season landed really well, and I looked forward to each episode coming out. And yes, they swung at the right, but they shit on Disney and its woke shows hard as well. Also keep in mind the original comic series ends at the Whitehouse so it is setting up an ending that reflects the original.
I agree, it's political satire is clearly unbalanced. I literately cringed at the "Happy January 6th, yall" BS.
Social criticism works best and as it should when you're willing to critique ALL equally, like South Park laughing from the outside at BOTH ends of the absurd (and mental) spectrum....When it becomes selective it just ends up feeling like desperate (or self-awareness-lacking) bad-manipulation ......and then more akin to shameless ideo-devolved propaganda......with that nauseating supposed 'sass' now so sadly common.
I feel like anyone with a brain saw this obvious narrative since season 2.
This is why I don't give anything modern a chance!
I felt that the season finale was anticlimactic! Everything didn’t come together.
Where’s A-Train?
Butcher just shows up and kills Vanessa and can just walk away?
That whole Hughie/Starlight situation wasn’t really resolved.
Just my thoughts…✌️
This whole season there was zero reason to have a Hughie/Starlight situation, nor a Frenchie/Kimiko situation.
Artificially created drama that made no sense whatsoever and contributed nothing to the overall story or characterization.
The difference is this: comics have a villain of the week, and this has a villain that although can kill any opponent in an instance, we have to sit through an infinite with them?
No thanks. Either finish the story and move onto another villain, or, just let me know when you have concluded their story.
I just want to see the ending. It had some fun parts. Love Karl Urban in most everything he is in.
Keep up the great work guys, you do more reviews then any other channel.
It’s fine the Right still makes the memes
I watched Supernatural for years and had no idea Kripke was such a perverted dude. Yes, the comic is over the top, but damn it seems the shows creators are into some real perverted stuff. And to top it off, this "season" was particularly gay!
I completely checked out after halfway through season 3.. Season 1 was amazing, #2 was ok but I REFUSE TO WATCH SEASON 4
Strong tea partier, this one 😀
They took shots at the left, but it's clear in this season that Starlight and her friends are left supporters while those that support Homelander are right, so they went easy on the left. They also had people on the right calling out the left, vs a more neutral standpoint, so it didn't really have the effectiveness it previously had and looked more like right wing anti-left propaganda. There were some hits and misses in the season, and I agree with Chris that the actors/actresses did great, but I look forward to the conclusion of everything in the next season. Especially if they are bringing back Soldier Boy, I think it will be great. Also nice to see A-Train slowly making a redemption arc. I hope they continue with that next season... he seems smart enough to realize things but whether he will continue to have the conviction to follow through with things will be interesting to find out.
You know the show runner was upset that trump survived. That dude is such a slime ball. They gotta stop putting these people in charge of shows.
The abundant charisma of Anthony Starr and Karl Urban is what made all the heavy handed political messaging tolerable. If it were not for how entertaining these two men were in their roles, The Boys would have quickly devolved into Disney level cringe, just with more violence and gore.
I feel the same way, I was a big fan of the comics but that final episode felt very insulting
With all the topical commentary, this show is going to be pretty dated quickly. They should have avoided that so you could watch the show in like 10 years and it still be fresh.
1st season was the best and now it's just way too cringe to enjoy. I'm just not into the Eric's vision of what he thinks is entertainment/ propaganda I'm gonna miss the 5th season. Way too gross on many levels for me.