Started watching it last night but had to shut it off half way through the second episode to be able to get some sleep. Loving it so far.
I have not read the comics but this is probably one of the most realistic portrayals of how supers would probably act if they really existed. Power corrupts and absolute power would corrupt absolutely.
I liked Translucent freaking out about bootleg items infringing on their IP.
Homelander is scary as shit. Clearly mentally unhinged (prolly in part because he knows he’s definitely superior to humans) and also apparently all-powerful. Scary scary stuff.
I have about 8 hours until the sun goes down here, then I’m gonna plow thru the last 5 episodes. I might watch the 1st 3 again during the afternoon, but I really like the dark theatre vibe I get when I watch shows at night; it’s great for a first viewing.
Looks to me like Mystery Men, turned up to 11 with violence and grimdark. :rolleyes:
I dont see anything original.
That’s not even remotely close.
The show is deeper than I thought it would be. Lots of things coming up that echo or are directly from our world and times. In the first episode we had a guy take advantage of a young woman’s naivety & ambition and his own supposed position of power over her to rape her.
We had our MP (main protagonist) Hughie’s girlfriend killed off in horrific and irrevocable fashion by an authority figure with vastly more power than he has just moments into the show and him having to deal with the fact that society sees this as no big deal.
We see corporations disguising their true intent with flash and glitter; that there really IS a tiered, hierarchical society where most people are not in the top tier and are generally regarded as unimportant, interchangeable and disposable.
And we see people with power acting with impunity, being upset when they aren’t getting their way and resorting to violence to impose their will.
Lots of parallels and echoes of our world, brought into stark focus in this show, IMO. Much that I didn’t list, for sure.
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I just know he’s gonna do it, especially after I knew he was gonna use the word “mewling” and then he did.
I really liked how they made (most) of the Boys powerless.
In the comics they took compound V and got super strength (Well, not really- they got something like “super violence”, where they seemed to have regular strength except they could brutally murder supes)
But making them (except for The Female) just an efficient black ops outfit improves the story.
Watched 4-7 last night. Each episode feels like a short movie rather than a single TV episode; they really pack a lot in.
Character growth is really good; the acting and writing are both excellent, helping to carry the load in equal parts. I think it’s great that Karl Urban is perhaps the worst actor (with the worst character) of the bunch. He’s solid, but pretty much everyone else him is shining.
So far I haven’t caught an uneven tone from the number of different directors. That was increasingly a problem for me with GoT (at least for S6 & S7) and I’m glad they seem to have gone for continuity over individual style.
The production value continues to be impressive.
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I like Kimiko (The Female) fine; she interesting and her Wolverine-ness will surely prove useful again in the future. But I really like Cherie, Frenchie’s no-nonsense waiting-for-him-to-come-back-to-her-on-pain-of-death girlfriend; she totally fucking rocks! So that triangle should be fun to see get sorted. 
Maeve’s storyline came at me out of nowhere. Not at all what I expected it was going to be.
I was glad to see Ashley get fired; I didn’t care for her.
Loved the cameos they’re throwing in! They really help establish this as a real albeit slightly different world than our own. And a couple of them made me Let’s go to the quarry and throw stuff down there.
I’m gonna finish the last 2 episodes tonight, so I’ll prolly be out of the thread until after that.
I really liked Homelander explaining why he couldn’t just carry a plane in flight.
Had some very good parts and some meh parts to it. I thought the bits with the Deep that were supposed to show pathos just sort of felt cringy. I wasn’t about to feel any empathy for him given what he did in the beginning. Karl Urban was excellent and so was the guy playing Home Lander. Didn’t care for A-Train that much. I never felt like the actor/script/direction or whatever was really selling his character. I loved The Female and for some reason, I also loved Black Noir.
I just blew through this series without knowing anything about it. I really enjoyed and thought the writing, pacing and acting was top-notch. Karl Urban is so very good. Erin Moriarty as Starlight and Jack Quaid were very good. Interestingly Jack is Dennis Quaid’s & Meg Ryan’s son.
Well, I’ve seen the whole thing, and enjoyed it, but I am left with one important question: just what accent was Karl Urban aiming for, exactly?
In the comics, Billy Butcher’s English; and it did seem in the first episode like Urban was aiming for something vaguely in the London area, with occasional excursions into Essex, and the odd hint of Captain Jack Sparrow. But then it settled down as Australian – which is fine, Butcher could be Australian in the show, in the same way they changed Hughie from Scottish to American – but then why not just make him a Kiwi like Urban, and save a lot of trouble?
What show were you watching?
Binged the whole thing today. And all I can say is: Wow! Just wow!
My jaw was on the floor at the end of the final episode.
Imma be pissed if we don’t get a season 2.
Just finished 7 & 8; fucking brilliant. I did not see that ending coming at all.
AFAICT S2 is already greenlit; IMDB shows S2 in 2020.
You didn’t? I saw it coming from the moment I found out his wife had been pregnant. It was fairly obvious from that point on.
I haven’t read this thread yet, but I’m two episodes in and I really like it. Very dark, and very well made. I hope to get a few more episodes in today.
Watching the third episode, I recognised the scene they shot outside of my workplace (Homelander and Queen Maeve are talking to a SWAT team member in front of a bank robbery). At the time, I assumed they were filming the TV series “Titans” (because of the woman in the Wonder Woman knock-off outfit), but I guess I was wrong.
He sounds like (and looks like) Ravi from* I Zombie.
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The preview. Now I have watched a few epis, yes, it is Mystery men, just way darker. The real super in MM was a total corporate sellout and tool.
It’s a fun show, but it’s not original in any way.
Your opinion is weird, it is very little like the Mystery Men movie. I don’t know about original or not, but not copying MM much at all. Mystery Men and several other movies were about those with very minor powers. This is really very different. The 7 are pretty super and the other group have no super powers at all. I think it is mostly a story about corruption though at its heart.