The Boys (2019) – Season 03 [DVD]

Une des meilleures sries du moment – trs prenante mais si la violence et la sexualit vous rebutent passez votre chemin.

Serie passionnante et hautement addictive uniquement disponible en V.O. anglais

Le seul petit bmol ici est l absence de sous titres VF comme pour les 2 premires saisons …d o la note de 4 et non 5/5

J attends la saison 4 avec impatience !
Longue vie The Boys !!!

I’ve never read the source material but this is what I want from a superhero franchise. Bad language very questionable morals. Well acted even if Butcher is a bit ‘Cor blimey govnor’ not the worst British accent attempted by a non Brit. I must confess Butcher for me is the stand out characters as well the psychopathic Homelander. Can’t wait for session 4.

So glad to see The Boys is still getting a physical media release, so many of us still love to collect blu rays and 4k discs. This season did not dissapoint, still the best show on tv! The only downside is there’s no 4K disc! Cmon Amazon give us a seasons 1-3 4k set so we can enjoy the series in all its UHD glory!!!

It feels strange in the era of streaming platforms to be eagerly awaiting the blu-ray release of one of the real big-gun franchises that is used as a tentpole for a particular service, especially when several rival companies seem hell bent on refusing to put their flagship shows onto disc.

As such, it is commendable that Amazon are happy to release their premium content onto blu-ray, even if the resulting discs have minimal ‘Value Added Material’ and are currently unavailable in 4K… I guess, if you want to see the show in such high quality, you’ve got to subscribe!

But the reason The Boys Seasons 1 and 2 sit on my physical media shelves and Season 3 will be rapidly joining them, is because this is truly a phenomenal show. Arriving just as the superhero genre felt overplayed and worked out, the series takes its controversial source material and carefully tweaks and refines it to fit into the current climate. Poking fun at the giants of the entertainment industry, including perhaps, the very people who fund the project, while also taking pot shots at the wider cultural landscape, Eric Kripke and his team have managed to up the ante with each season and this third run out saw them firing on all cylinders.

Even if superheros aren’t your bag – and to be honest they’re very rarely mine – The Boys will likely appeal because it rewards loyal viewers with nuanced characters in increasingly ridiculous situations that somehow maintain a level of believability because the worldbuilding is pitch perfect. The fake movies, commercials, product placements, talkshows and even news reports coming out of ‘Vought’ mirror our own world with the volume only slightly amped upwards – a frightening warning of where we’re going, but also a hilarious takedown of certain ways of thinking.

Make no mistake about it – right wing viewers are up in arms about this show because they’re the ones being critiqued here. But even then, our heroes are not flawless protagonists here to be simple dogooders. They’ve killed. They’ve maimed. They make selfish decisions and it bites them on the arse. Above all, they’re human, and faced with a seemingly impossible task – take down people who could kill you with the blink of an eye while also battling the systems designed to protect those monsters in the first place.

If you haven’t seen Seasons 1 and 2, don’t try and jump in with this one. Let the show build – sit with you for the first four episodes and if you’re not sold by the time you hear “Wannabe” by the Spice Girls on the soundtrack of a memorable sequence then switch off, cos this show probably isn’t for you. But stick with it, and it’ll only get better and better, with the finale of Season 3 being almost so perfect that it could have been THE finale to the entire shebang, with almost every character given a sense of closure. Except Kripke has other ideas, and the last few scenes help set up even more intriguing possibilities ahead. Roll on Season 4!