This post contains heavy spoilers for The Boys Season Three
By this point, it’s hardly worth saying that The Boys is shocking. The show has built its reputation by taking superheroes to their ghastly extreme, filling the screen with exploding heads and super-powered Nazis. That’s also certainly true of season three, which began with a shape-changing Supe blowing up his lover from the inside and took us through to Herogasm, which turned out to be just as depraved as promised.
But The Boys has never been just a show about gross-out moments. In adapting the independent comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, showrunner Eric Kripke has added thoughtful satire of American politics and rich character drama. More than nearly any other superhero series, The Boys has explored the nature of power in all of its forms.
All of these aspects come together in the season three finale,...
By this point, it’s hardly worth saying that The Boys is shocking. The show has built its reputation by taking superheroes to their ghastly extreme, filling the screen with exploding heads and super-powered Nazis. That’s also certainly true of season three, which began with a shape-changing Supe blowing up his lover from the inside and took us through to Herogasm, which turned out to be just as depraved as promised.
But The Boys has never been just a show about gross-out moments. In adapting the independent comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, showrunner Eric Kripke has added thoughtful satire of American politics and rich character drama. More than nearly any other superhero series, The Boys has explored the nature of power in all of its forms.
All of these aspects come together in the season three finale,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Joe George
- Den of Geek
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