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The all female beat down was leagues better than the horrendous all female fight scene in endgame....

Stupidest part for me was when frenchie shouted “quick we need to get the rocket launcher in the car” like maybe don’t say that in front of storefront or else she would immediately blow it up like she did.

That moment when Queen Maeve, Starlight, and Kimiko beat the shit out of Stormfront is kind of purposefully in your face. It is meant to parody those girl power moments they never get right in superhero cinema. Hell, they even have Frenchy say the "Girls get it done." line from that cringey ad the one lady had made earlier in the show. At least that's how I interpreted it.

I'm a little late, but the trio beating down Stormfront made total sense. They were the only ones who could fight her because they were the only ones with superpowers.

The guy who plays Homelander is perfect.

I'm just mad that Starlight, who's ONLY power is absorbing and using energy, got hit and damaged by Stormfront's plasma blasts. Like come on, I was waiting a whole season for Stormfront to accidently supercharge Starlight much like Thor did to Ironman in the first Avengers.... I mean like that is her ONLY ability... "absorbs energy"... Are her powers actually useless just like Butcher said? lol

Now to be fair, AOC being a vilain in the end was an unexpected plot twist.

The Homelander is so well presented in this show that he actually terrifies me whenever he's on screen. (Apart from the fact he can be tamed by a simple blackmail.) And I really hope they don't mess him up.

I think the main problem with the show is that they're kinda getting into a corner, because in the comic the boys had a way to actually fight, and kill, the supes, meanwhile in the show they kill translucent early, and then... nobody, for a long time. I mean shit, Butcher's name was so fitting because that was also what he did - he had zero mercy for anyone superhuman.

Forgot about how the Lamplighter storyline was getting interesting... And then he... Kills himself?

I like the on-running joke that whatever sea creature the deep talks to they almost immediately die in the next scene. I was wondering how they were gonna kill the whale when it first appeared and I was laughing my ass off when it died

The "girls get it done" scene didn't feel forced to me at all It made sense since the female characters in the scene were the ones with super powers

I did sort of enjoy the anti-marketing going on: -Nobody drinks Fresca except cult members -Protagonist hates Almond Joys; later used to nearly kill someone

Season 1: high audience rating | decent critics rating. Season 2: high critics rating | decent audience rating. Hmmmm... where have I seen this before?

The all female fight at the end doesn’t seem forced at all, they built the characters properly not around their gender or their ideology but on their actual development and the payoff made me audibly excited

I'm going to have to disagree about Maeve's arc. She's traumatized, beat down, depressed and still terrified. Her arc is about a survivor who can barely cope, trying to reclaim her dignity by the end of it all, and has some solid celebrity parallels besides. I think that character story was actually quite well handled, though I agree on most other points about the season's failings.

I thought the female beat down was a parody of endgame.

The level the plot armor the human characters have is absolutely ridiculous

This show has more balls then a formulaic Marvel/DC movie ever could have

The "girls get it done" scene came so nautrally and made so much sense compared to something like the "she's got help" scene. I didn't notice at all that it was all girls fighting until Frenchie pointed it out.

If you think about it though, The Deep is the secret hero of the entire season. Without his dumbass, Maeve wouldn’t have been able to save Billy with that crash footage. And A-train wouldn’t have been able to steal the documents on Stormfront. None of the main characters would have been able to really do much without the few little things he unknowingly did for them lol

Season 2 basically boiled down to "I'm blackmailing you so do as I say" - the plot device

I actually appreciate the Deep’s character… his story arc goes completely differently than the rest of the show… he’s the “Better call Saul” to The Boys’ “Breaking Bad”. It’s small stuff but I enjoy the emotional exploration he goes through and how pathetic he sees himself. It’s so weird and interesting to me.

Them crashing into the whale was the most hilarious thing I've seen in years. The look and reaction of the deep during it was the cherry on top.

The 'girls really do get it done' scene was taking a shot at Marvel and their female power scene in End Game and how ridiculous it was.

Thought the middle was a bore, thought it had lost its edge. Brought it back near the end, but next series needs a bit more focus and the stuff we loved about series 1. Homelander was fucking brilliant though.

I think the show knew what it was doing with the female trio fight scene, it was clear with frenchies insanely cheesy line that the show was both making fun of the stereotype and helping drive the plot as these women have been badly affected by stormfront and also the only people there in the fight range that have powers. Starlight was threatened and silenced by stormfront and exposed her, kumiko had the worst from her as stormfront killed her brother and maeve just hated her guts and felt like SF was fueling homelanders rampage

I can't believe they made Love Sausage such a minor character in the show, feelsbadman.

No one talks about how Starlight outright murdered a innocent man who pulled a gun in self-defence when he was in the process of being carjacked.

Considering the reveal at the end of the last episode of who the ultra woke congresswoman really is, I don't think your assessment regarding messaging over story is entirely fair

The all females beat down was funny and on purposely in the face, with Ashley saying “girls get it done” earlier in the season, and the show already calling the media out and making fun of it. I found it really funny

Homelander's arc in S2 is great. After killing Stillwell, you get the impression he can do whatever he wants now and he doesn't need anyone. But reality sets in and he actually can't. After facing Stan Edgar and his public image crisis - he learns that he's actually quite needy of being worshiped by the public and doesn't actually have any control over Vought. His whole schtick seems to be about him trying to control everything and failing at it, not a type of arc we see often in villains. On the note with Hughie, the first season was very centered around him, it's understandable why they want to spend the second one on other characters lives, this time mostly focusing on Billy and Homelander - we got to see their similarities, parallels but also what sets them apart ultimately.

Drinker: "I'm going to avoid spoilers" Also Drinker: "Storm Front is the first super jerk and also a Nazi and also hooks up with Homelander""

Hope we see Drinkers opinion on season 3. After season 1 things started to appeared to be far more poorly written than season 1. Season 3 seems to be similar to season 2 in its approach towards storytelling and adapting from the comics. The more I read the comics, the more I think why the hell would you opt for anything other than the original source material. I have a strong feeling that Mr Hurr Hurr Weed Lmao has far more of an influence since season 2, hence the decline in quality across the board. At times season 3 feels like it’s written by a child, or more likely purely for Seth’s cameo, which does depict him correctly as a disgusting wanker.

I dont think you got the "girls get it done". I saw it as mocking marvel's version and pointing out how ridiculous it was

I'm pretty sure Reddit thinks Stormfront is a real person.

that sick burn on the partially shaved head on women, so true.

Well, season 3 is now over, and was preachier than a very special episode of Glee. Time to take back that recommendation !

Well after watching season 3 halfway now, safe to say the boys is still an amazing series. Might be my favorite season so far

This season suffers from the same problem many TV Shows do. They have about 3 hours of story but they stretch it out into 10 hours.

FFS, her name was literally "Storm Front." It couldn't have been more obvious.

I just noticed The Drinker did not make a review about Season 3. Looks like The Boys did lose its way.

Thing that anoyed me the most about this season was that most of the conficts were resolved with blackmails, which didn't make any sense

It took me several episodes to realize Antony Starr was the actor who played the lead in Banshee. He embodies Homelander so well that I didn’t recognize him. Great actor.

The original comics creator Garth Ennis is not listed as a producer for season 2. Now it’s all Hollywood types. Hence more wokeness and less character depth. It can only go downhill from here.

Came here to make a judgement call on whether to give season 3 a go. After reading many comments, I was thinking about sticking it on but then I read a comment that Seth Rogan was involved in this, I think I'll give it a miss.

After watching season three and going back and re-watching seasons one and two things they all seem to fit together pretty well. Yes there are times where I feel like there’s some plot weakness but being able to see it as the middle part between season one and three now in retrospect I like it a lot more.

A-Train still has his heart problems, they're definitely not gone.

Uh.. you can make Homelander do anything with blackmail. Blackmail is the deus ex machina in both seasons.

Also an honorable mention to the actress that plays Becca. Her emotion and despair was portrayed so heartwrenchingly good, mad probz.

Well if he was on the line with S2, The Drinker likely will retract the recommendation with S3. Not that it was terrible but it still suffers from the same ailments increasingly becoming an issue. And it has set up S4 for ruination

I disagree about Hughie. He definitely wasn’t as critical as last time, but he is responsible for a good deal of the Boys’ success this season. His decision to save A-Train results in their ultimate victory, his plotting with Starlight causes Vought to go into damage control, he was the reason Annie escaped and so on.

Good thing homelander is the strongest man on the planet; because he's holding up the series by himself.

Oh man! The "message" is even louder in the third season. I have a feeling the "recommends" retraction is coming real soon.

The short answer to your question is FUCK NO!

Yah know what I enjoy most about The Boys? It doesn't drag its feet. It doesn't take an entire season to reveal Compound V, 2 episodes & bam, done, the World knows & voilá the World doesn't care.

I think having Homelander act almost human towards his son gave some levity to what was a so-so story overall. It was sad to see him almost find his humanity only to lose it irrevocably

Just finished season 2 and you hit the nail on the head. Definitely had "The Message" scattered about way too often. Couldn't help but cringe when the guy shot the convenient store guy cause he watched too much cable "news" and thought he was a sup-terrorist.

I liked both seasons and am waiting to see what happens for season 3.

There were so many conveniences in this season as well. They would often present obstacles to heighten the stakes, only to have it solved rather easily by something convenient or blackmail. And I believe blackmail was so overly used this season. The cycle of "obstacle solved by blackmail" even got predictable and boring. Would have preferred to have the issues resolved on the first try instead of adding an artificial obstacle that would be resolved easily. Felt like time wasted... Apparently, Maeve can teleport too. The whole Church of Collective storyline felt like a waste of time too, although the themes it was trying to explore were appropriate for the overall world-building of the show. Unfortunately, it simply served as a tool for comedy, to make fun of The Deep's dumbass character. It was still a really enjoyable show, though. Had some strong character moments and interesting twists. They still managed to grab my attention and have me excited for the next season.

I had a good laugh at teleporting Queen Maeve in the final episode of season 2 lmao

You are going to have to retract your drinker recommends after season 3.

I had hoped that this review was unnecessarily cynical and some of these things were coincidental and self-referencial, but after seeing the first few episodes of season 3 I think, this was a lot more accurate than I had hoped it would be.

I like how they showed you don't become a Nazi after one Alex Jones broadcast. It takes SEVERAL broadcasts, over a week or more.

"Hughie didn't evolve at all." Stands up to Butchers bullshit. (im talking about him punching him back by the way if anyone was confused, which is something he would have never done in the first season.) Goes to save Starlight. Legit realizes hes a clingy weirdo and leaves the group cus of it. Ya, he didn't change at all...

8:07 Actually, when you think about it, Homelander is Titan in Megamind. Both receiving superpowers due to a scientific chemical, feeling a big sense of entitlement for love and attention they believe they deserve, just because they're powerful enough to get away with anything they want. If fact, both are best described with this quote: "All your gifts, all your powers, and you squander them for your own personal gain?"

The show really went downhill imo. Unimportant characters are disposed of in a matter of milliseconds for gory bullshit , while characters that the writers decided are important are kept in , while they should've faced the same faith. It makes my blood boil how characters like A-train and Lamplighter are not killed on the spot by the people who hate their guts.. You mean to tell me that Starlight (a sweet girl that wants to save people) kills a normal guy , who thought was just being scammed makes sense ,while M.M. And Frenchie (two homicidal professionals, who hate this guy) let Lamplighter live long enough to redeem himself.. Same with Hughie , in s1 he kills Translucent and even tells M.M. it felt good , later on he spares A-train TWICE ,before he is even redeemed at all. How does that make any sense at all?

Homelander and bonding with his son, as well as the problems between them like Homelander coming to realize that his son isn’t him and his son warming up to him some were the highlight of the season in my opinion. I wish it was more of the focus this season, since Anthony played an amazing role as a narcissistic father somewhat realizing that his son shouldn’t have to have a traumatic past like him. I feel like every other character this season was just... meh. Not terrible, but just average. To me, the Boys characters in general felt off, like they weren’t the same people from season 1.

the huey of the first season would never take a emotional unstable guy and go head on in vought to save someone.maybe he didn't evolve that much as a character but he has changed for sure . Also i would get the ''cringy'' scene where all girls are hitting stormfront any day compered to scenes like female group shot in avengers endgame.

definitely from season 2 you start getting shitty vibes with feminism, and identity politics creeping in, in season 3 they are common, and I guess in season four they will be the main narrative.. Typical when something is good, and successful, the leaches must come in to spoil the goods for a share of the pie

The Boys season 2 could have been an amazing second season, with about 2-3 episodes of material cut, and everything tightened up. The major plot lines (Stormfront, creepy religion, Homelander parenting, Starlight infiltration, Headpopper) were strong and engaging. There were some absolutely brilliant scenes, bookended by content you could have made a sandwich during, and never noticed you missed the plot point, because it had plot, but no point.

1st half of the season was okay but nothing like season 1. Even the pilot of season 1 was better than all of season 2. 2nd half of season 2 looks like it was written by someone who has TDS.

it reminds me of deadwood, where they would add a character at the start of the season to kill them off, because they didn't want to harm the main roster. This time we had scientology, and a nazi too scared to say the N word (something the comic did not). Compared to Season 1, this went nowhere, and was very tame.

I actually liked S2 better than the first....it's a brilliant show

11:38 nah that shit was kinda awesome and way better than the all female fight scene in Endgame

I didn't feel like this season was a wrong turn at all imo. The heavy-handedness of the political/LGBT stuff was all still satirical and it was used to show the irony of how forced representation creates tokenism and how feminism is treated in media. From what I understand the Stormfront scene was originally the boys doing the beat down but in a way it felt like a mockery of the scene from Endgame and in that context it just makes sense

I disagree, the boys went after both sides, they girls get done scene was a piss at marvel. and spoiler alert the AOC character turned out to be a villain.

Is there going to be a video on season 3? Da message got real blunt in that one.

Season 3 vid when? I love your input.

I like how they said "girls do get it done" however a young boy has to finish the job lol

Seth Rogen is involved, it’ll be unwatchable by season four. Mark my words.

Their mistake was making Stormfront by far the most sympathetic character.

Not losing it's way so much as it was trying to flesh out all the characters while still trying to keep the same tone and energy as the first season. There were understandable fluctuations in quality through s2 but the series is still great, I'd just like to see more of the Seven since the whole plot is basically about superheroes and how they'd be in the flawed, prejudiced and morally grey world we actually live in.

You really didn't think Hughie didn't have character growth? His arc was realizing that he can't trust butcher, and needs to stand on his own. It terminates him taking initiative in a situation where he would have been paralyzed with fear and/or helpless last season. And finally at the end he decides he wants to move on from the Boys, because he's gained the confidence to get away from Butcher.

The one thing I find interesting about this season that I don't think a lot of people bring up is that Stormfront is a hero from Portland and portrayed as as a feminist and anti-corporate, And the second villain of the show is a staunch liberal and is based off of a liberal woman in Congress now. They show almost sells the message that a lot of the people who claim to be part of certain movements are all just self-serving assholes. It's hidden underneath layers of "beat up Nazis" and "xenophobia bad" but I feel like there is almost something interesting that can be pulled from the final villain reveal.

its a good show for the most part, but each season has gotten more hamfisted with "the message." the final scene in season 3 feels like a lame snl skit. the left is ripe with contradictions and hypocrisy and projection, but apparently no one has the balls to actually make fun of them, ever. its always just the right that gets trashed. still enjoy the show but every stupid trump reference just takes me right out of the show. everything else is hyperpoliticized, can just 1 show not be? and if it has to be, at least trash both sides. but cant possibly do that.

What about the AOC reference at the end? I think you got caught up with the on the nose stuff that you missed the more sinister subtle stuff

The most unbelievable part of season 2 for me was when starlight brought compound V to the mainstream press and they actually exposed the multi billion dollar corporation. That one really shattered my suspension of disbelief.

Well, a somewhat redeeming factor that the Drinker missed is the fact that the "Alexandria Occasio-Cortez" character also turned out to be evil...ish.

The drinker does a good job of glazing over the fact that homelander rapped Billy butcher's wife and that's why he has a son. Also that The deep forced Starlight into a sex act via blackmail which is disgusting and reprehensible.

11:30 that scene was a literal parody of endgame's wahmen teamup tho (u can check interviews about it)

I kind of thought the "girls do get it done" scene was more of a joke about that super cringey girl power scene at the end of marvel's end war. Instead of this big flashy over the top scene ham fisted in for some diversity points, the boys just gives you 3 women literally kicking the shit out of another woman who, in this instance, was an actual nazi. With that thinking in mind I thought it was pretty funny. Everything else mentioned in the review I think was spot on. I wasn't really a fan of how they keep making the right wing generally look like a bunch of evangelical zealots who are easily manipulated by subtle nazi ideology. Especially in an age where it seems just about everyone is prone to being manipulated by the media regardless of where you stand politically.

Glad I'm not the only one who hates the half shaved head

how did you not like the "girls get it done" scene? XD i thought it was hilarious as they're all kicking the s%%t out of stormfront and swearing XD

In my opinion, the only thing really "wrong" with the show, thus far, has been how many times they back themselves into an inescapable corner, only to use the "if you do x, I will release y to the public", to get out of it. At some point, these people would realize that they have the power and influence to come back from the damage of a PR foible.

Stormfront telling the crowd "Make America safe again" was the cringiest attempt at falsely relating the show to modern politics.

> says Maeve doesn’t get any character development > complains about the scene where Maeve finally stands up to homelander and vought > bruh

I’d love to hear a review from you about your thoughts on season 3 of the boys.

Karl Urban is a beast! Loved him in chronicles of riddick!