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The Boys is the savage, sweary and gloriously unhinged superhero series based on the comic books by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Set in a world where superheroes are not just public protectors but corporate products, political weapons and celebrity brands, the series follows Billy Butcher and his team of vigilantes as they take on Vought International and its terrifying golden boy, Homelander. On the surface, The Seven are treated like gods. Behind the marketing campaigns, press tours and staged heroics, they are corrupt, dangerous and protected by a machine that knows exactly how to sell destruction as inspiration. The series earns its place on Comic Movie DB because it takes superhero culture, rips the cape off, and asks what would actually happen if people with world-ending powers were owned by a boardroom.
Director
Eric Kripke
Released
29/04/2000
Runtime
55–70 minutes
Genres
action
drame
Rated
18
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Amazon MGM Studios
Updated
15 Jun 2026
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The Boys (2019) Review 9/10
We have rated The Boys 9 out of 10, and honestly, it is one of the easiest ratings to defend because this series is brilliant from start to finish. The Boys works because it is not just shocking for the sake of being shocking, even though, yes, it absolutely loves firing a blood cannon straight at your eyeballs. Under the gore, profanity and superhero chaos is a sharp takedown of fame, politics, media spin, corporate control and the way audiences can be convinced to cheer for monsters if the branding is good enough. Karl Urban is fantastic as Billy Butcher, bringing swagger, pain and pure chaos to every scene, while Antony Starr’s Homelander is one of the most unsettling villains in modern television. Every smile feels like it could turn into a massacre. The supporting cast is just as strong, especially Jack Quaid, Erin Moriarty, Laz Alonso and Karen Fukuhara, who give the show its heart when everything else is exploding. For comic book fans, The Boys is a dream adaptation because it understands the source material’s anger and absurdity without feeling like a lazy copy. It is violent, funny, nasty, clever and weirdly emotional. Basically, if superheroes had PR teams, sponsorship deals and no moral compass, this is exactly the mess we would deserve.
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