The Boys: Season 2 — Review
Disclaimer: This article has some light spoilers regarding some plot points of The Boys: Season 2. If you want to know more about the show and see the final verdict without spoilers, you can read this article’s first and last sections.
THE BOYS
The Boys is an acclaimed TV Show adapted from the comic of the same name, produced by Amazon Studios and exclusive to stream on the Amazon Prime Video platform. It premiered on July 25th of, 2019. Because of its premise, it garnered a significant cult following and hype for its second season.
The show’s premise revolves around a group of people who have had their lives upended by the wrongful actions of a superhero. Following these events, the show starts to show perspectives on what Humans vs Adored Superheroes would be like.
These superheroes are distorted versions of their “real-world” counterparts, with massive companies marketing their images of New Age Gods. Much like what we have seen happen with actors, artists, and people in the entertainment industry,
With this premise, the criticism of these actions, considering how we idealize celebrities, is explicit. To put it in the words of Eric Kripke, the creator of the Amazon Prime Video adaptation of The Boys:
“How would a Superman-like hero feel like [in the real world]? They would become sociopathic. How would a Speedster feel? They would be a stressed-out professional athlete.”
This premise will either create a hit TV Show or a cringeworthy one. The quality in the execution of this premise, from production to performance, is what sets The Boys apart, turning it into one of the best superhero series in the last few years.
THE BOYS: SEASON 2
The Second Season of The Boys was met with positive reviews from critics and the audience, for the most part, with some fair criticisms on convenient storytelling and even on how to approach certain aspects of the plot.
This season, we have a new addition to the team of distorted superheroes, Stormfront, played by the amazing Aya Cash, a mysterious figure at the start. Soon, it’s revealed she’s a Nazi trying to create an army of superheroes. If you want a complete article on this subject, I recommend the fantastic read that is Maya Philips’s “My Screens Are Filled With Black Death, but I Won’t Look Away.”
This season keeps the show’s identity as a series. It goes a step further with it, criticizing religious cults and upping the gore and shock value, but this time with even better character development in between and within these scenes.
The acid comedy in this season is way more accentuated than in the first season, including parodies of popular movies from the DCU and the MCU. In sum, everything the first season did right; the second season improved.
It was that the only problem the second season of The Boys had was the plot-driven narrative that allowed for some inconsistency and convenient storytelling to happen. Something that was not as present in the first season.
THE MASTERCLASS: S02E07 — Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker
Through season 2, we have a “Supe,” which is how people who are not superheroes refer to people with inhuman powers, blowing up people’s heads. The end scene of this episode has the same Supe committing mass murder on Live Television.
Since no one knows how the power works, no clear suspect is in sight. At the end of the season, we get to reveal who the Supe is. Now, “How is the last scene of the previous episode a masterclass on production instead of the one that ends the season?”
Well, so when you go back to the scene of the mass murder, you should be able to see the killer destroying everyone’s heads. Being a TV Show, this can be a complicated scene since some continuity can be lost, or the suspense can be killed; it’s completely understandable if that happens.
However, this doesn’t happen in The Boys. During the scene, if you know what you are looking for, you can see the killer killing right before you. They don’t even try to hide this happening. And even then, when you get the reveal at the end of the season, it’s still a complete surprise.
This is the kind of production we expect from great shows like Game of Thrones, Lost, Breaking Bad, etc. This season made The Boys a contestant for being one of the best superhero shows of all time; the question remains: “Will it be able to keep this high-quality content until the end?”.
THE VERDICT
Here is the gist of it: if you have not watched The Boys yet, you have to. Right now, the fan base has very little toxicity, so you can also do one of the most fun things when you are a fan: create theories with other people about the aspects of the show and share funny memes.
If you are looking for a number, I would classify every TV Show in three If you are looking for a number, I would classify every TV Show into three significant characteristics: The Premise, Production and Performance, and Storytelling (Plot and Screenplay).
- The Premise: 100. The show stays true to its premise and builds upon it.
- Production and Premise: 94. The show has some weak moments in acting and some goofs on production, but nothing to take much away from the general quality of the show.
- Storytelling: 85. Due to the plot’s forceful advancement, the show has some scenes that broke my immersion. However, the character development and action points make up for these scenes.
With that information, we get an average of 93/100 points. If we add or subtract the personal bias of enjoyment, we would end up with a solid 95 or 90 TV Show.
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