I've watched the first episode so far and holy frick it's so bad. It's like it was written in 2005 by an edgy teenager. There's no subtlety at all, every single theme is being spelled out to you multiple times, predictable scenarios, almost everyone is cartoonishly evil and the message couldn't have been more obvious. Does it get better with time? Everyone is praising this show so much, is it worth watching?
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Nah it’s fairly one note
there's definitely more to it beyond the first episode, but i felt that one was quite decent for a pilot
First season is ok but stop after that
Only trumptards hate S2 and S3
i love the season where the israelite chick plays a superheronazi and trys to recruit chad and then gets melted for her troubles. i cant figure out whether the writers have no self awarness or its subtle irony.
no self-awareness
The first season is watchable. Past that it's more of the same but with more Seth Rogan "white people bad" shit and even more disgusting degenerate shit.
Mentally ill or trolling I'll let you guys decide
He is right, probably mentally ill though but thats not an argument
It is actually stupidly concerned with incel behavior and privilege, the show is politically shallow and is literally about how different white people are just different types of nazis
One white guy is killed via skinning by being dragged down a road for pointing out the 13/50 statistic and defending himself. The show clearly tries to program people to think the stat is fake, and that if anyone points it out they ought to be killed because its a heckin' racism. Plus a lot of other stuff. Honestly you can call me mentally ill if you want but I think media like this is what makes one "mentally ill." Most modern media is just ugliness that fills your head with dumb shit. This site is my last source of ugliness but no one leaves forever.
>media like this makes people mentally ill
Oh absolutely. The idea that race relations are some minefield that’s always going to come out, and the solution or punchline to any seemingly divisive thoughts is a comedy murder, it creates a bad heuristic for both progressives and the accused. They just throw in the reductive Twitter political argument of the day as an attention getter then they just brutalize everyone because it was always pulp fiction in the first place.
I dont agree witht he notion that showing white people dying is some part of an agenda, but you can't deny the constant undertones of liberal values in the show. It's why i dropped it halfway through the first season. The comics were filled with propaganda but it was so blatant and so silly that i was okay with it. The 90's propaganda in pop culture is way more accessible.
Season 1 is somewhat palatable. They mostly take digs at the bush administration, which was so long ago and no one talks about it anymore that it almost felt refreshing. 2 and 3 is where they start being preachy about current day events (well, they're 2-3 years behind every season, but still) and you can't even call them undertones, the BLM and MAGA references are cartoonishly blatant. If the pattern holds, by the time s4 comes out it will be 2-3 years after covid and the vaccine, so I expect them to lecture the audience on that with zero subtlety (my quick prediction: some shit about temp-v becoming widespread and causing health issues, the boys being the good guys have a cure but the MAGAped- *ahem* stormchasers are spreading misinfo about it, etc.).
>The first season is watchable.
No it isn't
Is that why you dont like it? Im not even going with that. I just think its genuinely a mediocre tv show that was written by some LA comedians
It always sucked but the first seqson is watchable.
Jumps the shark second season, also when I started tuning out.
Third season is trash, dropped, won't touch it again.
It's simultaneously sanitized but also degenerate.
Season 1 is good with caveats.
Season 2 is watchable but political satire became too on the nose and an all-female scene in the end is just as bad as the Endgame one.
Season 3 is trash outside of Soldier Boy. Overall Homelander’s actor Carrie’s the show.
I could probably watch the later seasons if that blonde hadn’t bogged herself beyond all hope
She used to be cute even with her being a dig at the White Evangelicals.
Season 2 was garbage on all fronts with The Boys becoming complete idiots where the only solution to every single problem is blackmail. Also the nazi supremacy without actually daring to act out the part, the awful Butcher's wife being alive plot etc.
Season 3 started out decent actually and the first half showed promise but it went back to repeating the same stupid tracks in the second half. Culminating in the hilariously bad my wife's son/teaming up against Soldier Boy for no good reason ending. Also Hughie/Starlight relationship and super serum abuse plot being plain cringe to watch.
>Season 2 is watchable but political satire became too on the nose and an all-female scene in the end is just as bad as the Endgame one.
That scene is ABOUT the Endgame scene, and similar things. You fricking moron.
Anyhow Season 3 is truly unwatchable so whatever.
Having a running throughline of "Girls get it done is so silly right guys?" only to then have the grand finale being an unironic "Girls get it done" moment is not satire anymore.
You are a moron, but whatever because the show sucks anyway, not going to have an argument over this.
You're a moron. Like, maybe the most moronic poster on Cinemaphile currently. Have you considered suicide lately?
if we have the KENCUT we should have the HOMELANDERCUT.
wienervore
>There's no subtlety at all,
There isn't supposed to be any, its how it was
written
>almost everyone is cartoonishly evil
That's the point, it's based in a graphic novel, which is just a cartoon in book form
> It's like it was written in 2005 by an edgy teenager.
It was.
>only reasonable post in the entire thread
>explains why the show is the way it is succinctly and to-the-point
>no replies
sometimes I wonder about the median IQ of this board
He might as well have said "it is what it is, man". It doesn't invite conversation, you moron.
1st season is okay and fun and Starlight is pretty
2nd season is absolutely diabolical but Starlight has nicer thighs
3rd season could've been the best but is completely undone in its entirety in the last episode
It gets worse. Whenever you see criticism of this show people usually like the first few episodes and get disappointed as the show goes on. It gets edgier, filthier and yet completely spineless when it comes to plot development. To like this show through and through is to be a moronic redditor who actually enjoys the on-the-nose political commentary and edgy gore scenes, because that's all it is and it only gets more vapid every season.
Nah. If your interest didn't last through the first episode it doesn't really get better. I actually dropped it midway season 2 and never looked back for no particular reason. Usually I'd finish a season before dropping a show but one day I just realized I was several episodes behind and didn't care. It's just a forgettable nothing of a show really. Homelander was a fun character throughout season 1 I suppose but not worth forcing yourself to watch for.
No, it’s fricking garbage. The comics were far, far better.
Editor's Note: the comics were also dogshit
They were dogshit in parts but the story structure was *chef’s kiss*
The whole thing was dogshit from start to finish. Garth Ennis is a joke.
I’ll bet you never even read the whole thing.
Babbys first edgelord comic
the source material is irredeemable garbage and all the show really does different is DRUMPF BAD instead of BUSH BAD along with a slew of other uniquely 2016-onwards hot topics
AND it's capeshit
The first season is all Bush Bad tbf.
It's for women, Anon.
It gets better at episode 3 something.
Turns into shit after season 1 amyway
It gets worse. It so bad you only tune in for homelander and butcher.
Nope, its stays at that mediocre level with plenty of filler episodes and mediocre superhero fights despite the big budget.
Pure goyslop
>It's like it was written in 2005 by an edgy teenager
the author is a guy that never grew up out of his edgy teenager anti-god phase and it shows in all of his works
And for the adaptation it got picked up by a group of people who are the same way, most famously seth rogen.
>Produced by Seth Rogen
There's all the info you need, bro. Look at how he bungled Preacher, and the latest TMNT
1 is shit
2 is trash
3 is shit again
The best and more interesting stories from the comic are still untold, or profoundly mangled
The only thing that changes are the situations and settings. The entire show is otherwise exactly the same from the first episode to the last
SPOILER
Cinemaphile hate everything,you can't sound smart if you agree with someone else.
>Cinemaphile hate everything
Do they? Why do I filter a thousand threads every day about Star Wars if they hate everything? They don't hate everything and you're just a brainlet.
Pro tip for the npcs like the person I'm replying to: Never look at what someone says but look at what they do. If someone is in a thread for something, there's a good chance they like it.
I'm sure Cinemaphile says they hate a lot of things, but they're just trying to fit in with people that don't exist. I'm Cinemaphile and I don't like a single one of you. Someone reply after I filter the thread.
First star wars movies were excellent and so was chitty chitty bang bang,. the man who would be king and zulu dawn, sorry not sorry.
>They don't hate everything
>I filter everything
>If someone is in a thread for something, there's a good chance they like it.
Ok,you got me
So you hate pay walls but you have amazon and hbo.4pw44
if you don't like the pilot you won't like the show.. so bye i guess
Ennis is a true edgelord. The losers writing the show are just SNL rejects
if they source matter best getting could but never writers fricking fans muh pervert
Be quiet, you're not even ESL, ESL implies a certain degree of proficiency
>I've watched the first episode so far and holy frick it's so bad. It's like it was written in 2005 by an edgy teenager.
Yeah that's exactly how the comic is too.
>Does The Boys getter better?
Its absolute shit garbage, thrash like all capeshit even the dying days ironic shit. All of it capeshit SHIT. Die fricking die die die
Season 1 is the best. Season 2 it drops off hard. I stopped after 4 episodes.
Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fun
Butcher screams "That's my wife's son!"
Becca's fast, Becca's loose
Took a Homelander load, in her caboose
And you don't bail, beta male
No bastard son is worth that tail
And you get in your car and you drive real far
And you know for sure that kid ain't yours
And you raise that clown while your wife's in the ground
And out comes the Homelander
And you're really mad but you're not the dad
And he wants you dead he could melt your head
And then you to lose to Homelander
You cuck out and leave in your car
You're out killing supes, shooting V
Gunpowder and TNT
And you don't stop, you keep on cucking out
It's so frustrating how the show goes to great lengths on gags and background details. But completely drops the ball when it comes to the writing and story development. They film whole commercials and trailers for in-universe products. Imagine a show with The Boys' budget and set design, but with writing to match.
>Butcher screams "That's my wife's son!"
>Becca's fast, Becca's loose
>Took a Homelander load, in her caboose
They really fricked up by retconing her consent into rape.
First season was really good.
Second was meh with a lot of boring things.
Third was shit.
The ending of S3 tell you everything you need to know: they are going to hype up something during a whole season, deliver a shit ending to make a new season.
It's the Walking Dead again.
If you want entertainment that doesnt utterly insult your intelligence read a book.
>Does The Boys getter better? NO
Ok thanks.
Already hated it, glad to know it doesn't getter better.
If you really don't like the first episode/season or the core premise, I'm sure you will absolutely hate the other seasons even more. I'm saying this as someone who thought the first season was mostly alright and then it devolved into what you're complaining about.
Also the source material is literally what you're talking about and done even worse, so ignore all the hipsters who think they're cool for reading the comics.
Which is worse? The boys or invincible?
Haven't seen much of Invincible but given it's a cartoon that immediately makes it worse than The Boys
What moron reason to dislike invincible.
>muh cartoon bad
I think is just a bad adaptation, the comic is better than the boys, since it's a reconstruction of the superhero genre, than deconstruction by someone who outright hates the genre.
>>muh cartoon bad
Ah I see you're a "cultured" war and mafia fan.
>>muh cartoon bad
Yes actually.
Boys. Invincible is fine so far, only part people unanimously agree is shit is the MC's black girlfriend because she's a b***h.
Its so fricking weird that they turned a generally supprtive and healthy relationship with a blonde haired blue eyed stacy to a toxic one with a selfish dumpy black activist who would literally just let thousands of people die than get stood up by her superhero boyfriend.
The boys. Not even a contest. Invincible is actually a dignified piece of media, whereas the boys is closer to live action south park.
>I've watched the first episode so far and holy frick it's so bad. It's like it was written in 2005 by an edgy teenager.
The comic is even worse with that.
The show is just tons down "edgyness" that is considered problematic nowadays (rape, sexism etc.) and cranks up that which is acceptable (weird sex, gay shit, BDSM, degeneracy etc.)
You into crude superhero antics with some backstory and gratuitous violence in between? Then maybe. Otherwise? Quit while you're ahead.
By crude I mean top-shelf juvenile type shit. Not anything imaginative, just immature and questionable.
The Boys has moments of greatness that for me were heist and CIA backstory scenes where our motley crew has to improvise a solution to a superhero problem. They disappear from the show by the end of S2 in favor of the shittiest of capeshit plots and preachy drama (there are at least a dozen shoehorned subplots that dunk on Christianity). So no, the show gets much, much worse and mid-S2 is as far as you should watch.
Biggest problem with the show is that it's just the same shit every season. New evil supe gets introduced so the boys:tm can fight him instead of Homelander, whoa homelander is le crazy, everything gets reset back to the same status quo.
FAB FIVE FREDDY TOLD ME EVERYBODY'S FLY
The comic was alright but it's super gay like most liberals.
It peaked with Herogasm final fight scene.
It failed by fricking over Black Noir to give Queen Maeve an illogical happy ending.
I hope the theory comes true that Black Noir was a mass produced clone like Rei and the Venture Brothers. He just comes back next season like nothing happened. Completely undercutting what happened last year.
>I hope the theory comes true that Black Noir was a mass produced clone like Rei and the Venture Brothers.
I don't want Black Noir to be a clone. I want him to be immortal like Stormfront. I want Stormfront and Black Noir to have a reckoning about their ability to self-heal, their vastly differentvl motives for joining Vought (or being enslaved to Vought), and their parental protective love for Homelander. You know, some anvilicious American history subtext via storyline.
But israelites are making it, so meh.
GRAN FRICKER BENNY TOLD ME COUGARS ARE FLY
c**t HAIRS GRAYING AND I SAID MY MY
SOULJA BUST, SOULJA COOM
THIN OR FAT, SOULJA AIN'T NO PRUDE
AND HE DON'T STOP, CUM SHOT
GO OUT TO THE BINGO LOT
AND HE GETS IN YOUR GRAN AND HE FRICK REAL HARD
AND HE POUNDS ALL NIGHT AND SHE SEES A LIGHT
AND HE COMES RIGHT OUT AND IT LANDS ON THE GROUND
AND OUT COMES FROM HER ARSE
AND SHE HAS FUN WHILE DRIPPING CUM
AND HE SIT ON THE BED AND SHE GIVES HIM HEAD
AND THEN SHE SCREAMS OH MY STARS
HE GOES OUT AT NIGHT, EATING c**tS
HE FRICKS COUGAR CHICKS, GILFS TOO
MATURE LADIES AND SWINGERS TOO
AND HE DON'T STOP, HE KEEPS ON EATING MUFF
THEN WHEN THERE'S NO MORE MUFF, HE GOES OUT AT NIGHT
AND DRINKS AT BARS WHERE PEOPLE MEET
SNORT SOME COKE, SMOKE SOME WEED
SHOT TO SHOT, GRAM TO GRAM
SMOKE AND SMOKE, DON'T TOKE TOO SLOW
BUT SOULJA BOY IS THROUGH WITH DRUGS
HE'S BANGING BATS, YEAH WALL TO WALL
DOOR TO DOOR, HALL TO HALL
HE'S GONNA FRICK 'EM ALL
MATURE, LUBE SURE
TAKE A TOUR IN HER SEWER
DON'T STRAIN OL' JANE, PAINT HER MANE
YOU'LL BE SINGING IN THE RAIN
SAID DON'T STOP GIVING GILFS wiener
The boys is very edge lord but that's the appeal to me.
But honestly they changed too much about the butcher for the show. Well too much about everyone.
The first half of the first season was good, then it falls off and season 2 never recovers. I stopped watching then. The comic is way better.
I have a similar problem with what Seth did to the preacher which was comparably much better written.