Creator: Eric Kripke Cast: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T Usher, Laz Alonzo, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, Jeffrey Dean Morgan Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video Rating: 3.5 stars Ever since we saw that shot of Hughie’s girlfriend being obliterated by A-Train in season 1, we have known that The Boys likes to shock us. Even those unfamiliar with the source material understand that one of the USPs of the show is its penchant to shock with blood and gore.
And with so much of that going around, the audiences are prepared now. And yet, each season, this show somehow manages to up the ante. There is blood from unexpected places, deaths out of nowhere, and sexual depravities of the highest order.
Four seasons in and I am happy to report that The Boys has still got it. Season 4 of The Boys looks at Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) pondering his own mortality as he has a few months to live. He distances himself from the boys to repair his relationship with Ryan, his dead wife’s superhero son.
But standing in his way is Homelander (Antony Starr), the biggest and baddest superhero out there who wants to train Ryan as his protégé and carrier of legacy. The Boys, meanwhile, must help Robert Singer assassinate his running mate Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit), secretly a supe, and on her way to the Oval Office. The Boys has always been a satire on the modern-day consumerism and over-saturation of superhero film.