Amazon hit The Boys is as drippingly gory as it is bitingly funny. In order to make fun of the mood mix for the fans, Amazon has now published a small video gift. There the intro of the series is kept in the style of a family-friendly sitcom. Instead of encouragement However, there is a surprising amount of malice coming from the community.
The Boys as a sitcom: Amazon got it wrong on the decade
The video features various The Boys characters such as Butcher (Karl Urban) and Homelander (Antony Starr) grinning happily for the camera. There is a distortion effect on everything, reminiscent of video cassette quality. “If The Boys had a 90’s sitcom intro“, is the headline.
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But while some fans are happy about the idea, others are confused or even angry. “Whe always with [Amazon] responsible for social media doesn’t know the difference between the 70’s and 90’s“, it says about. “It’s the 70s,” writes another fan, “even I know that as a millennial.”
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There are so many comments that it almost causes a storm of indignation. Perhaps there is some anger about a supposedly younger generation that resonates 90’s and 70’s are said to be sorted indiscriminately as scrap iron. On this point, however, the critics are somewhat right. For comparison, here is the intro of the sitcom Jack of Hearts with two ladies, which ran in the USA between 1977 and 1984.
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What do you think of the sitcom intro for The Boys?