In my opinion "The Boys" had potential. However it was just like they didn't care. The only thing the creators did care about was to make it as gruesome as possible. Season 1 took so long to start, it took me a few months to finish it because it was just so boring and there was no plot the first episodes. It was just violent and sexual. That's it. That was the entire plot. The characters had no character development at all! In my opinion Starlight should have been the main character, she was this obviously good character who was innocent and didn't know what she was getting herself into. She was the kind of character that you could have empathy for. The other characters however didn't, for example Homelander. He was just evil, and being controlled by the council or whatever. Like he could have killed them all with a look but he just didn't, he just kept acting like their little pet (aggressive little pet). Also something I don't get is why starlight didn't just quit when she got there, yes the money would have been good but really, was it worth it? And when A-train was kicked out of the seven and then he just came back with no hard feelings, is just unrealistic. It's nothing against any of the actors, they were good at their jobs but the plot point and the character development was just nonexistent. Yes, I get that this is a tv series that is making fun of superheroes, but having no characters that you can relate to and or have empathy for is just stupid tbh.

Like you can make characters that are evil and that you can feel for.

For example, the joker, Ultron, Anakin skywalker, Lucifer, Loki, John wick, Deadpool. These are characters who are inherently evil, but in the boys there was just 0 effort in making these characters have anything that could have made us care about them.