Review: The Boys- Season 2

Hello, Everybody! Today I'm did something a little different, I reviewed the new season of the hit comic book TV adaptation, The Boys. This will be the first of many of my TV show reviews. This does contain major major spoilers! So if you haven't watched the new episodes yet, please start now and then you read this article. 

AGAIN.

*THIS IS A SPOILER ALERT!!*

Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's graphic novel of the same name and created by Eric Kripke and produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, The Boys isn't your typical superhero show, whereas normally a superhero tv show would be focused on a hero protagonist like The Flash, Supergirl or Green Arrow, but in this show, the protagonist is a normal guy named Hughie Campbell, whose girlfriend was accidentally killed a superhero named A-Train and he's approached by Billy Butcher, who is played to perfection by Karl Urban and is the leader of a ragtag group of vigilantes called The Boys. Their mission? To take down The Seven, led by Homelander, who may seem like everybody's superhero, but really he's more of a full-on sociopath and Vought, the industrial complex that they work for. There's also Annie or Starlight, a girl who has luminescent powers. Not only is it a dark take on superhero culture, it's a surprisingly relevant tv show and is a satire on celebrity worship. With one relevant theme in its first season being sexual harassment. In one memorable scene, both Nathaniel, *ahem*, I mean The Deep and Starlight are in the Vought conference room and when The Deep whips out something that should never be seen. Just as when Hughie kills Translucent, an invisible supe(the superheroes in this show are called supes), this was going to be a very different kind of comic book adaptation.

Season 1 ended with Butcher on his missing wife's lawn and Homelander greeting his and Becca's child and Season 2 picks right where The Boys have left off, after attacking Vought, they're now Public Enemy Number One with no options or Butcher, that is until he showed up at the end of the Season 2 premiere. While it had the same brand of dark humor, mayhem and memorable brutality, this new season exceeded its predecessor in a huge way and its season finale did not disappoint! After Stormfront killed Kimiko's brother, I was waiting for a full-on fight scene between them! Oh, Kimiko is basically a silent Asian woman who is super strong and can not be killed. Not only did Kimiko own her, she got help from Maeve and Starlight to give Stormfront a beating she won't forget, cause y'know, girls get it done. It also showed Homelander at his worst with Anthony Starr giving an Emmy-worthy performance. Him doing a bukaki on New York City is something that I won't forget. There's also shocking twist involving congresswoman, Victoria Neuman! This was the best season finale I've ever watched!!

Also, I loved that Shawn Ashmore played a pyrokinetic supe just because he played the literal polar opposite in the X-Men franchise. 

I also really got to love both Frenchie and Mother's Milk as characters. Not just them, but all of the characters got their moment to shine. 

I really do recommend watching The Boys if who haven't already!