The Boys Season 2

 

I think we could have done with a bit more- There were 8 episodes to the previous series 10 

I think I might need to give this series a rewatch

Butcher is less fun when he is Moody. Also I think Homelander is too. I liked watching Homelander try to connect to his son. I thought the fact that the boy, makings Lego videos of the Blind side was a nice touch. Homelander taking his son out in Public was well done too 

Homelander gave into Voght a bit too easily- Why so? 

There are a few freak out moments, the man with the enormous penis. The dead whale, the 

Okay firstly I want to complain about Stormfront. Not the Actress-Ms Cash She did superb work 

But bloody hell, its another Nazi villain. Okay, The problem with Stormfront's plan is that and it is lamp shaded in the series. There are billions of people in the world. Billions. We can see the terrorist groups that gave us the Asian, making their own off brand superheroes Why do we expect the PRC not to be able too? Or the fact that the Boys can take down superheroes, but the SAS /DELTAs Mossad would not be able too? So assuming a race war- What do we expect say the Detroit Police Department and HBU too not be able to pull something out of the mix.

Also I did not buy Homelander as a Racist- I get we have Garth Ennis material to play against- But the being is above all of humanity in his own mind. 

We finally got to meet Lamplighter and his story arc was well done. I also liked the fact that we had A-Train triumphing despite everything. I enjoyed the Church of the Collective as a power in the Boys Universe in it's own right. 

Erin Moriaty is lovely 

I thought they wrapped everything up well at the end. I wonder though if things did not sag in the middle

Hopefully next season will be Homelander unleashed

The Boys

This may have been my favorite piece of TV all year.

It is set in a world Where Superheroes are real. What is it like?

It has one of the best comedy set pieces of all time. I must refute Steven pinker on this. Steven Pinker claimed that`` A fish called Wanda ''is no longer funny as it features the death of a dog as a comedic set piece Here they kill a dolphin and it is hysterical 

It is a black super hero comedy. It wad clearly written during the Bush era so there are digs at the religious right which seem passe now. Woke capital would never let their human assets be associated with red state religiosity now

Firstly Kyle Urban is brilliant as Billy Butcher. His accent is a bit confusing, He is an Australian supposed to be playing an East-ender but you can live with that.

The first meeting between Billy and our hero- Hughie Campbell . Is great.11 I don't want to go to a second location with you''.

What I like about the Boys is that, everyone one has an agenda and no one is quite what they seem. It never spells it out. But it is clear that Hughie Campbell is being manipulated by both the Seven and by Butcher. Indeed there is a painful scene where Campbell claims falsely that he had sex with someone. He figuratively prostitutes himself

There is a very painful scene. One that is truly difficult to watch when the Homelander and Queen Medb try and fail to rescue a hijacked plane. It would have been too much in the early noughts

I cannot wait for the second season