Amazon Series Review - The Boys

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It took a year, but finally, my boyfriend convinced me to watch the first TV series of "The Boys". As it came out I judged it badly, thinking of it as an absurd parody of superheroes, but I had to change my mind instead.

The series starts with the homicide of the protagonist's girlfriend, by a superhero. While the protagonist has to decide if he has to accept or not the offer of the superheroes, an ex-agent of the FBI contacts him offering him help to obtain justice.

They plan to put a bug in the meeting room of the superheroes, to find out if it was really an accident, but they're found out by one of the heroes, that block and try to kill them. They succeed in knocking out, capturing, and hiding him. Unfortunately, the hero saw their face and don't want to free him because he could continue hunting them, or worse, he could tell everything to the leader of the heroes.

After the hero exploded, they discover that the hero who killed the protagonist's girlfriend is involved in superhero drug trafficking, so they want to catch him. Meanwhile, they find out also that superheroes weren't born like superheroes, but they were created in a laboratory, thank the same substance that they use like drugs and that the drug traffics, ends in the hands of some terrorists who are trying to create an army of super-terrorists.

I wasn't completely convinced about the seriousness of the story, so I started to watch it taking it lightly, but since the first episode, I've put away the thought that it was absurd. This first series is interesting, especially because it doesn't show classical good superheroes, devoted only to charity, but it shows how humans would really react if they keep superpowers in this age of social media: they would think more to impress and receive "likes" than seriously save people.

Have you seen the series? What do you think about it? Ant what do you think about a similar vision of the superheroes? Do you agree? If you awake one morning with Superman's powers, how would you use them? Let me know in the comments.

See ya soon!

Emily

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