The Boys Season Four is a Mixed Bag of Brutal Humor and Stagnant Storytelling
The Boys has always been synonymous with excess, a reputation that remains intact as we enter its fourth season. This anti-superhero saga continues to revel in its audaciousness, delivering the kind of brash, in-your-face storytelling that has become its hallmark.…
Why the Backlash against the Boys for Being Too Woke Misses the Point
In today's television landscape, the conversation around what is considered "woke" has become a lightning rod for controversy. Shows that aim to address social issues often find themselves at the center of debates about political correctness, with critics quick to…
Gen V: The Boys Spin-off Hits Gold with Entertaining First Season
With its first season, Prime Video’s Gen V ingeniously spins off from the hit series The Boys into an exhilarating new chapter set in the same gritty universe. Centered around Godolkin University, a prestigious school run by the notorious Vought…
The Boys is More Entertaining than Ever with an (Almost) Perfect Third Season
In a time when superhero fatigue is starting to become a reality, The Boys continues to tell perhaps the most entertaining and consistently great mainstream superhero story on both the silver and TV screens. While some shows, like Doom Patrol,…
The Boys Presents: Diabolical is a Fun, Creative (and Inconsistent) Exercise in Telling Short Stories Set in the Violent Superhero Universe
As far as spinoffs go, you could certainly do worse than The Boys Presents: Diabolical. A collection of eight animated shorts featuring A-grade voice actors and writers, it takes good advantage of the universe’s twisted, violent tone and tells a…
A Look at the Nominations for The 73rd Primetime Emmys (2021)
The 73rd Primetime Emmys will be held on September 19th, 2021 at the Microsoft Theatre in California. It will honor and celebrate the best television shows airing from June 1, 2020, till May 31, 2021. The nominations for this year…
The Best TV Series of 2020
Unlike with movies, there was no shortage of TV shows in 2020. While some shows like the Marvel Disney+ projects got postponed, we also got our fair share of great shows this year. Honorable mentions include Dispatches from Elsewhere, The…
The Boys Continues its Charming, Irreverent Streak in Second Season, Building upon New Themes and Characters
When The Boys premiered last year, it’s irreverent take on superheroes soon gained a strong following. Using superheroes as a filter, the show took on the entertainment industry, celebrity culture and the military industrial complex. In the second season, it…
The Best TV Shows of 2019
There were plenty of exciting shows this year, to the extent that it's hard to choose just ten for the best of the year list. There's just too many shows out there, and even if you spent weeks binging, you…
The Boys is a Violent, Subversive Twist on the Superhero Formula
The Boys is a great antithesis of the golden age of superheroes: it dives deep into a world where superheroes are adored by the masses, humanizing characters who were previously more one note in the source material. Most of the…
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