The Boys (2019–2026)

The Boys, or the Mirror of Excess The crown jewel of Prime Video—and perhaps the finest series produced in years (with due respect to Sam Levinson’s Euphoria)—has been this brutal, harrowing political satire engineered by Eric Kripke. A sharp, audacious concept that began as an seemingly irreverent deconstruction of the caped-crusader subgenre has, through successive seasons and the evolution of the American sociopolitical landscape, mutated into a hyper-realistic mirror of corporatism, media manipulation, and the commodification of fascism. Kripke’s…

What's to say?? Those dreaded words comes to mind when taking in the entirity of this series born in Woke-tivity's infancy, and dying in the miasma of Woke's waves. What are those dreaded words??? "This show had so much potential." The first and second seasons were good. The third and fourth are run-over gay racoon roadkill. The third and fourth seasons can be summed up in these words, "Are you gay enough?" And it is not all the gay shit that gets on your nerves, but the total deviation from the story, characters' core personalities and personas, and…

From the "Superheroes'r'us" department we get the only "superhero" anything that is watchable. Of course, only so because it is a rather thin and blunt allegory to the modern world and the damage it does to the human character, but still funny, witty and grotesque. The best trick is the way it delivers its sermon through the fate of its characters. Worth a watch, although not all seasons are of equal quality.