The boys caught me at an age where I had grown up with the marvel universe, starting at ten watching iron man on DVD as it had come out. Eventually as we all do, I grew up, as did marvel's characters, leading up to endgame, upon which, if I were I a better and certainly smarter writer than I am I would pontificate on the meanings of the main character's (Tony Stark/Steve Rogers) death's and what that meant to the greater superhero genre in general however i'm not a cunt and so I won't.

The Boys and it's universe address a fact that Myself and a lot of other's think to be true. That a superheroes powers would be independent of their own personal beleif's and agendas. Few are good and decent folks, most are power and attention hungry monsters, seeing 'baseline' humans little more than invaluable meatsacks. Almost all viewer's will identify with hughie, a man irreparably assaulted and horrified by an indifferent "supe" (superhuman) he is then thrusted into a life of combat and general mayhem as he teams up with the boys to combat the "supe" threat.

It is a great show, especially if you're suffering from marvel fatigue, i'd recommend it to all those over 15/16 years old as it's veeeeery explicit (in all ways)

A huge standout is Antony Starr as homelander, he has really shown his acting abilities and range, flipping from absolute madman to calm and collected in nanosecounds, especially in season 3. Watch this damn show!!!