The Boys was a very extreme show from the very first episode. Intestines flying around, liters of blood, disturbingly creative forms of violence and, last but not least, they do a lot of sex Amazon series for the ultimate Marvel alternative. An anti-family friendly superhero:inside story for people with strong stomachs.
In Season 3, The Boys gets things going traumatizing sex scenes However, it goes one step further – and thus finally scratches the disgustingness of the controversial comic template. A development that could do more harm than good to the show.
Slight spoilers follow for The Boys Season 3 Episode 1 and the comic series.
Season 3 of The Boys kicks off with the show’s most disturbing sex scene yet
Imagine being able to change your size – like Ant-Man. What would you use this ability for? The answer in The Boys cosmos is: Shrink yourself coked up to mini size and in the back room of a lavish party crawl into the host’s penis. Unfortunately, the size-flexible Supe sneezes in his lover’s urethra, shrinks back to his regular size, and in the process explodes not only the penis, but the rest of the man who was just moaning enthusiastically.
The scene is so over the top, so disturbing that it surprises even by The Boys standards. So it almost seems normal that Homelander (Antony Starr) is jerking off a little later with the hand of a semi-comatose woman (whose identity we don’t want to reveal here). From the first episode of Season 3, the Amazon series conveys the feeling that millennials felt in the early 2000s when they landed on shock sites like rotten.com for the first time. And we haven’t even seen the much-heralded sup orgy, the scandalous Herogasm from the comics!
Among the most shocking moments in The Boys Season 2 was the whale scene:
The Boys – S02 Clip The Whale (English) HD
The series’ extreme, disturbing moments aren’t just meant to be a trigger, they illustrate the fucked-up world they’re set in. A difficult balance that The Boys have been able to keep well so far. But if a series is also advertised through its increasingly blatant shock moments and that’s why now arrived at exploding penises is – how far do you want to go?
The Amazon series must not become too similar to its repulsive comic template
While the show increasingly narrowly misses the unbearable, is the comic book by Garth Ennis a hard-to-consume accumulation of performative edgyness. Here acts of violence follow acts of violence, disturbing sex scenes, and cannibalism. Violent porn from start to finish. The nuances that make The Boys so good at Amazon? Hardly discernible between the storylines, which are trimmed to the greatest possible shock value.
Starlight (Erin Moriarty) is not forced into sex by The Deep in the comics but by Homelander, Black Noir and A-Train. Butcher (Karl Urban) has trained his dog, Terror (as briefly hinted at at the end of Season 2) to sexually abuse people—and regularly hones that ability. John Godolkin, leader of the “G-Men” and a Parody of Professor X who rapes childrenwhile Homelander does something even more unspeakable to a baby.
By the way, this is no coincidence. In addition to The Boys, creator Garth Ennis draws among other things also responsible for the comic series Crossed. The unintended answer to the question: what if a zombie apocalypse occurs where the infected are not (just) looking for human flesh, but compulsively engage in absolutely every sadistic, masochistic, generally horrible act you can imagine? We save you the details. Just this much: There’s a reason Crossed is in just about everyone “Most Disturbing Comic Book Moments of All Time” ranking shows up. And apart from the really disgusting pictures, it doesn’t have much to say.
The Boys was – and should remain – the perfectly balanced counterpart to Marvel
As a reader of the comics, I find it refreshing that the Amazon series found its own unique approach. Rather than following the often aimless extremes of the Garth Ennis template, The Boys at Amazon focused more on creating the perfect picture of the world-saving To deconstruct superheroes and the marketing machinery around them. An entertaining yet wicked satire on the MCU’s blockbuster machine that, unlike the comics, consistently manages to create an emotional connection between audience and characters.
The best thing about the Amazon series was never the violence or the sex scenes, it was everything in between. Extremity for the sake of pure extremity is boring and The Boys knows that. Actually. It would be a shame if the pressure of having to increase everything from season to season resulted in a focus on increasingly fucked up scenes. The quieter moments of the series are too good for that. And the need for an unorthodox but not flat counterbalance to Marvel and DC is too great.
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