As great and entertaining as the MCU movies are, the moral high horse they tend to look down from is bound to get cumbersome. This is where The Boys swoops in and steals all of the thunder from super hero movie tropes that we have begun to take for granted. This is not easy, saccharine family friendly viewing. This is hard as nails, guts in your face, angry and unrepentant. This is the view from under the feet of the moral high horse where the trampled have decided to just eviscerate the horse and the riders and the whole damn world if need be. I did not expect to like it as much as I did, I enjoyed it way more than I thought I would. I never knew Karl Urban had it in him to pull of this remarkable character or that Elizabeth shue was still around and still this damn capable. The acting across the board could have been better but beyond that there really is nothing that could possibly have been done better. This show grips you by the balls from scene one and keeps on squeezing all the way to the final scene when you are delivered with both a cliffhanger and a satisfying resolution. This is really some next level stuff amazon has in its arsenal. Easily one of the best iterations of the super hero genre that defies our expectations at every turn.