Review: Amazon’s The Boys Envisions A World With Corrupt, Power-Crazy Superheroes
It has been a relatively slow start for original programming on Amazon Prime Video, but it seems things might soon take a turn for the better for the online retail giant’s answer to Netflix. Till now, Prime Video has struggled to put out a truly ubiquitous hit the likes of front-runners on competing platforms, but that looks set to change with The Boys. Based on a comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the show envisions a world much like that of Alan Moore’s Watchmen, if a bit more grounded. It offers a satirical...
