What if beings with god-like abilities abuse their powers to push dark agendas? What if their actions, even if virtuous, have destructive side-effects on their environment? And worst, what if someone succeeds to instrumentalize them? What can mere mortal humans do against such injustice?

"The Boys" is all about this very interesting subject. And it starts off with everything a series would need to tell a suspenseful, tragic and action packed story with a very original setting (at least to cinema/TV).

At some points, "The Boys" does succeed to be great. The way Not-Superman is displayed, for example, and the way he is being controlled by humans. The way the superheroes commit "evil" actions out of mere carelessness. The CGI is cool, the images are very dark and fit the setting.

But that's about it in terms of atmosphere. Every life-threatening situation for one of the protagonists is accompanied by a "cool" (better: goofy) punchline, every action scene ruined by some rock- or pop-music or other juvenile atmosphere-breaking track. Some scenes are meant to be satiric/funny but they just don't work. The result is a very strange patchwork of action, "satire" and tragedy, which just does not work for me.

Btw: if they had made it a comedy in the style of the "hands-scene" from the beginning, it might very well have worked, too. It is the mix that ruins the experience.