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Pretentious bullshit that loses its own thread and leaves you with a disjointed and, in the end, just plain boring mess. The shock value from absurd twists and turns dressed up with violent, hyper sexualized, and gross coverings don't make up for the empty shell of content underneath.
It isn't meaningful allegory. It isn't deep. It's intellectual vomit disguised as something important or, even worse, something clever, and I want 3 hours of my life back.
I'm not a huge fan of Lanthimos, but I at least found value in his other works. This just felt like the weird kid in high school where people assume they're intellectual because they're really weird, when in reality they're just spewing nonsense and hoping no one notices the disconnect isn't because they're smarter or deeper than you.
We know Homelander isn't dying until they announce their final season, because that's their milk cow (pun intended).
Even in it's extremity, the show is as bland as its corporate overlords.
I'm pretty sure that Annie was crying watching the old starlight pictures because she realized how messed up her face looks now.
¨Oh look at me, I am so edgy! I do much more sick stuff that my big brother used to do on the first seasons!¨
What happened to Erin Moriarty’s face?
Please stop these actresses to mutilate their bodies!
It clearly misfired
This is when I stopped watching this TV Show. It was a good super hero serie with great story and dialogues and then they turned it into a gay and woke propaganda serie. Nothing makes sense and the story is just there to do woke propaganda . Too bad
I'm losing interest. Seriously. Maybe they should've stopped afterwards season 2.
Having finished these first 3 episodes, this season seems weaker than the rest. You still get that shocking slap from time to time with one scene or the other, a LOT of senseless gore scenes just for the heck of it, and multiple points that I didn't really find appealing:
These things (specially the last point) in together with the wavy quality since season 2, downed my series total from 8 to 7 (at least for now). Let's see how the rest of the season plays; maybe that point can be earn again...or it can go lower. Time will tell
Just need more Butcher and Homelander..These Starlight and Kimiko storyline is mehh. Also 'Sage' is such an annoying character.
It's not awful, but the writing is noticeably worse this season than it was before.
The boys is officially Lgbtqai+jdj×nln÷ye8#nd etc show. Thank you amazon. Can you please make mark Grayson trans.
"I just feel like I'm not getting a clear direction for this role."
Two episodes in, and I still feel like this season is too busy juggling multiple subplots. Black Noir's line I quoted above seems apt to describe these first two episodes.
The few arcs they're developing do seem promising. We get a glimpse of A-Train wrestling with his conscience, Ryan struggling with his humanity amidst the narcissistic supe circles led by his dad, and The Deep trying to exert some power over his Vought overlords. The Frenchie romance drama is also heading somewhere, although it often feels like any storyline involving Frenchie veers off on its own tangent with no direct link to the main plot.
Pacing, however, is the more glaring issue. With so many subplots they're knitting there's no clear "hook" to indicate what's going to drive this season. It lacks both the intensity and mystery they had in Season 2 (exploding head menace and court drama against Vought) and Season 3 (Soldier Boy and the quest for ultimate weapon against Homelander).
It feels like sequences happen just to justify character development—for instance, the scene with Splinter (the body multiplier guy) feels forced, given that The Boys are held back by such a mid-level supe when they've taken down Translucent before. The whole Sister Sage escapade, attempting to portray her as the smarter character, relies on dumbing down the heroes. As Sage said, do The Boys really think she wouldn't figure out they're tapping their phone? So much for infiltration, MM.
It also feels like the last two episodes have been quite tacky. It's as if the show is self-aware that its audience unironically mirrors the people the show is mocking, so now they have to spend two episodes explicitly highlighting how ridiculous those people are—e.g., the lines between Frenchie and Kimiko mocking the Truthcon participants. It just feels very on the nose and lacks the cleverness that they had before. Even the whole theatrics on "rescuing people from the badguys" (saves) no longer has its cynical wittiness, despite the scene being one important plot point to drive Ryan's character forward.
Oh well. At least Black Noir is funny. And I share his sentiment. Let's hope we're getting some direction in Episode 3.
Kick ass finale with sadly more shitty music. Lots of action and just what this show needed. The whole mercy thing was stupid af and Sir Pentious dying again to go to heaven begs lots of questions. At least Adam died. Eager to see what comes next.
On one hand we have a super-cool story of a badass agent who went undercover as a mobster back in the day when undercover operations didn't even exist then betrayed by the FBI survived the attempt on his life, changed his face with extensive plastic surgery and became a mob boss. This story takes up like twenty minutes at best in the movie. On the other hand we have a bunch of unimpressive and stereotypical people competing to kill the same guy, and they get to be onscreen for like the whole movie. What the hell?!
Was happy to see the boys again. Story was good except for the end. No spoilers but that was ridiculous. Essentially a 5 second conversation and poof... Lala land. Still 7 points for being Entourage:)
Great, light and addictive comedy.
But whoever directed this series is a virgin.
Everytime there's a sex scene with Vince screwing a girl in reverse cowgirl position, she is actually jumping on his belly button.
I rate it "which hole was it again?" out of ten.
Wow! This was the best season yet.
This show is geting better
AHS sometimes misses it, but I have to say this was the worst episode in TV series. WTH was that?
So... A random girl is responsible for what was happening to Anna... And she confessed everything without hesitation at a public event... That was one of the worst explanations ever.
levon is just annoying af
I'm so upset that Hank didn't choose Faith and went back to Karen again, she's so annoying and she doesn't know what she wants from life. Btw Faith was the best character in the series so far
The most dramatic episode so far. Unlike the usual comic fun, the whole thing was definitely played in a minor key.
Still wishing bad things on Mia. She is a fraud, and deserves to be exposed and disgraced
I'm devastated about Ashby's death
Kinda bummed about the outcome of this, but I also kinda felt it coming.
this feels like it was written ten years ago when everyone was amazed you could say "fuck" on streaming
Wow. This movie is great. it is sick. It is disturbing. But also, it is great. Probably one of the best movies of this year, most definatley one of the top 10 candidates. But also so hard to describe without spoilering that I won't even get into it. Just this much: It's a movie about dark secrets, revenge, blackmail and some strange notion of justice.
The story is especially in the beginning, totally strange, and only after some time you'll start to understand who's who and what's happening. However, from the first moment on you get the notion of "something's not right", which is conveyed in so many ways - the dialogues, the way the people talk with each other, the strange relations they have. There is also some small symbolism to find, but not as much as with other movies of this kind, e.g. Nocturnal Animals.
The storytelling is absolutely great, the movie is totally atmospheric and unsettling from the first scene onwards - I mean, wow was that intro intense - classical music, church-themed, and the close up of an open beating hearth at an operating table - uncomfortably long, hard to look at, even harder to look away. Cut. Discarding of rubber gloves and the scrubs from the operation. Cut. Mundane dialogue of the two doctors that walk down a frightening and disturbing looking long corridor, with the camera being far away and moving in the same pace as the two doctors. Cut.
Especially the camera is also quite interesting - it doesn't matter which scene, which shot, which setting - somehow it is always frightening and unsettling. Wow. What great skill in this shootings. The soundtrack is also absolutely strange and uncomfortable - switching from the imperfect singing of a child that in its way is totally scary (see the trailers), to classical music to a soundtrack that is absolutely grotesque and that bears a lot of resemblance to the soundtrack of the Hannibal series.
The cast is great as well - we have Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman who are absolutely great - but the star is probably Berry Keoghan, who is creepy as hell.
After watching this movie you'll feel the urge to discuss it with other people and it'll keep you occupied for hours and days afterwards (at least if you are open to such thoughts about movies and their meanings) - and this is something that I love in movies - there are many ways a movie can be really good. But to be a great movie it'll have to keep me occupied with it. This one does, so it's already clear that I'll consider it to be a great movie. It is however not for everyone. I think it can be best categorized with movies such as Nocturnal Animals, Enemy or mother! - if you loved those, you'll probably also like this one. If you, however hated those, I don't see any chance for you liking this one.
