The Boys (2019 - ... )
So this weekend I started watching two diffrent series that floated by on the high seas. (yarrr 🏴☠️). I first wathed the first 8 episodes of Invincible, which was an incredibly well done animation series. It's not a 10/10 but it's like an 8,5/10. Then I started watching "The Boys" (s01 & s02) . And that blew me away.
I've never read the comic by Garth Ennis, but it's high up the list of things I would like to buy if a good hard copy becomes availble. So for those that don't know what it's about. It depicts a world where a large corporation, that dominates a lot of the media-landscape, is trying to break into the defense market to get a contract with the governement. Their product? Human beings with special powers that are being fed to the public as being "superheroes". These super-humans are not idealistic like people would think they are coming from the American stereotype. Instead, they are all troubled and corrupted by greed and power. Their powers cause accidents and create a lot of victims. Those "accidents" are then whiped under the rug by the media-empire that is Vought International. Some of the victims have radicalised and reach to extremism, trying to take the big corperation down and seek revenge. Some members try to kill all of the super-humans indiscriminately. Their anger and hate slowly devours them and make them loose what we could call their "humanity" (or humanism).
Mix this narrative with some excellent use of symbolism and satire on contemporary politics, and you have a show that will make you laugh and cry... but also will make you think. Also has some great actors and some of the shots are beautifull. It's pretty intelligent in my opinion and if you want to look at something else, well, this is a great watch.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
I've never read the comic by Garth Ennis, but it's high up the list of things I would like to buy if a good hard copy becomes availble. So for those that don't know what it's about. It depicts a world where a large corporation, that dominates a lot of the media-landscape, is trying to break into the defense market to get a contract with the governement. Their product? Human beings with special powers that are being fed to the public as being "superheroes". These super-humans are not idealistic like people would think they are coming from the American stereotype. Instead, they are all troubled and corrupted by greed and power. Their powers cause accidents and create a lot of victims. Those "accidents" are then whiped under the rug by the media-empire that is Vought International. Some of the victims have radicalised and reach to extremism, trying to take the big corperation down and seek revenge. Some members try to kill all of the super-humans indiscriminately. Their anger and hate slowly devours them and make them loose what we could call their "humanity" (or humanism).
Mix this narrative with some excellent use of symbolism and satire on contemporary politics, and you have a show that will make you laugh and cry... but also will make you think. Also has some great actors and some of the shots are beautifull. It's pretty intelligent in my opinion and if you want to look at something else, well, this is a great watch.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
