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The Boys (2019)
TV-MA (US) | USA | English | 60 min
Directed by:
Philip Sgriccia, Stefan Schwartz, Frederick E.O. Toye, Batan Silva, Eric Kripke
8.5
The world's most powerful superheroes ('Supes') are secretly bending society to its whims, until the underdog team 'The Boys', victims of the 'Supes', conjure up a plan to take down 'The Seven' and 'Vought International' once and for all. Fighting a never ending conspiracy of corporate espionage, deep-cutting secrets and nigh-Godly figures, 'The Boys' will do whatever it takes to save the world from its corrupt 'superheroes' before they become unstoppable--or die trying.
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The world's most powerful superheroes ('Supes') are secretly bending society to its whims, until the underdog team 'The Boys', victims of the 'Supes', conjure up a plan to take down 'The Seven' and 'Vought International' once and for all. Fighting a never ending conspiracy of corporate espionage, deep-cutting secrets and nigh-Godly figures, 'The Boys' will do whatever it takes to save the world from its corrupt 'superheroes' before they become unstoppable--or die trying.
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Awards
See moreOutstanding Stunt Coordination for a Drama Series, Limited or Anthology Series or Movie
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Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series (One Hour)
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Release Date
Poland
(Transatlantyk Film Festival)
2019-07-16
Argentina
(internet)
2019-07-26
Australia
(internet)
2019-07-26
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Also Known As (A.K.A.)
The Boys
(Original title)
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Parent Guide
Sex & Nudity
Severe
Continuous sexual fetishes depict a male's lustful explicit breastfeeding from lactating females & a male's sexual proclivity to have explicit sex with a creature of the sea.
This Series features numerous scenes of graphic sexual content depicting explicit sex & discourse including graphic porn & orgies with explicitly graphic full body nudity.
Stormfront and Homelander have 2 graphic sex scenes. One shows multiple shots of them in different positions while they're fighting. He then lasers her breasts and she enjoys it. But another scene shows Stormfront masturbating Homelander and then they start to have sex.
Popclaw with a sexual outfit gets cunnilingus performed on her by sitting on a man's face. She starts thrusting on it and when she climaxes, she gets agitated and applies pressure to the man's head bursting it open. She realizes this later, but his brains are already all over the floor. Very graphic.
Two men attempt to rape a woman but they are stopped.
Early on in one season, a 'supe' orgy shows people with supes having sex graphically. This is shown for a few minutes as people have a conversation in the building.
Starlight gets a costume that is much more sexual than she would like, but she is forced to wear it.
In S2, a TV shows a naked woman with her bare buttocks close up.
A supe turns into a naked female & has sex with a male senator. The naked female blindfolds the male senator & sexually rides him while displaying female breast nudity. Before they climax, the supe turns back into a man. Their sex is recorded & this video is shown later displaying the same female breast nudity again. No male nudity.
Multiple sex jokes and sexual references.
There are scenes of sexual rape.
At a party, a man has sex with a doll as everyone else watches.
The Deep has sex with a woman as he gets turned on when he sees an octopus behind the woman.
A supe shrinks and walks into another man's anus looking for his prostate. The tiny supe sneezes, he is immediately shown unshrinking and kills his lover by exploding him from the inside. However, two people then chase him around the room trying to fight him while he shrinks and unshrinks fully nude. He is then placed in a baggy of cocaine to incapacitate him.
The Deep gets a blow job from an octopus.
MANY supes are shown either partially and fully nude or engaging in a massive orgy, with just about every sex act one could probably think of is being depicted in extremely graphic detail.
The Deep has some sort of body dysmorphia. He has gills that he's very ashamed of, and Homelander tries to make him feel insecure about it. In one scene however, Deep starts to have sex with a woman. She puts her fingers in his gills, and he asks her to stop but she doesn't. He's clearly in pain and is very uncomfortable during this assault.
Season 3 includes an explicit orgy sequence for almost the entirety of the episode.
Porn is viewed with audio.
Season 2 shows Homelander at the top of a building masturbating with explicit audio & some rear nudity.
In S3 Ep6 Herogasm it is a MASSIVE orgy with tons of supes
Very explicit series overall.
Explicit sexual content that would usually be seen in pornography which is shocking even for this series.
The whole show is like a soft pornography.
The show contains sequences of zoophilia.
Even if you skip sex scenes there are many male genitalia popping up on the screen in the most random moments. Would not recommend watching the show with another person.
Violence & Gore
Severe
The Female breaks Mesmer's limb.
A woman attacks and kills a group of men in various ways, each of them are very graphic and bloody, including her ripping a man's face off cleanly.
A-Train gets hit in the leg and blood is shown all around his leg.
One supe blows up in a building and kills many people.
Homelander kills a bunch of people in a building. Very graphic and a bit disturbing.
The Female gets attacked by a man in a building but when she escapes, her nails are shown with blood on them.
Starlight saves Hughie and punches a few people in the building.
The Female gets beaten up by A-train in a fight. He hits her face against a wall.
The character, A-Train, runs straight through another character (Robin), causing her to pretty much explode. Lots of blood and gore shown flying through the air in slow motion with some blood splattering onto the character, Hughie's face. After it happens, Hughie is left holding two hands that were separated from the body at the impact, and he then screams "ROBIN!".
The violence overall is EXTREMELY graphic, gory and inordinate. Although it's done in a more comedic fashion like South Park rather than dramatic fashion. However, when it's not, it can be extremely disturbing and unsettling.
Billy Butcher is shown being caught in an explosion. However, it is revealed he was saved and he is shown laying on the ground unharmed. It's not revealed until much later, how he survives but he ends up unharmed in both scenarios.
In Season 2, a man's bloody arm is shown. A man lets another man slice his arm off and a man's head is slammed and blood spurts. Then, a woman's head comically and briefly explodes.
In Season 2 and 3, a lot of people's heads explode throughout with extremely bloody results.
In one episode from Season 1, a dolphin being rescued by The Deep from captivity gets launched from his car and into the street. It's all shown in slow-motion, and eventually, the dolphin is ran over by a truck, and we see a huge amount of blood splattering all over the road from the distance. This scene is pretty bloody, but it's rather over-the-top, looks kind of fake and mostly played for laughs.
Unexpected, bloody scenes can occur while having a walk or just doing your daily routine.
In one scene, Homelander slams a man's head on the wall while behaving sexually with Stormfront. Brutal, but not shown for more than ~3 seconds.
In Season 2, we see them ram a boat into a whale which kills it. But then, we see them inside the whale covered in blood and guts.
In the beginning of Season 3, a man who shrunk, accidentally sneezes while he was inside his partner's p*nis and kills him with a lot of gore.
Season 3 has much more violence compared to the previous two seasons.
Each season is more violent than the previous one.
A character has his fingers blown up by a blood manipulator character, who then proceeds to blow up his lower jaw and then his entire mouth. As the character convulses, she taunts him before blowing up his entire body (extremely gory and bloody).
While on V-24, Butcher fights Gunpowder and punches him multiple times in the face, partially caving it inwards. He then uses heat vision to partially slice his head in half and you see part of the head fall to the ground.
Probably the most known sort of violence in the show, Homelander often (in almost every episode) uses his heat vision on people, exploding them into gore.
There are tons and tons of extreme blood & gore in the show, however, the scenarios are very unrealistic and mostly played for laughs. Therefore, it isn't as violent as perceived.
Homelander slicing people in half with his heat vision are the least violent out of all the violence, as it happens in most episodes and viewers can actually get used to it by time.
Season one has milder violence than the rest of the show, but still a lot of blood and gore. Season 3 is more violent than both Season 1, 2 and the spin-off Gen V combined. Season 4 is also explicitly violent like season 3 and is far more graphic than seasons 1/2.
While the first 2 seasons could pass as an R-rated movie, seasons 3 and 4 are much more extraordinarily gruesome and filled with extreme explicit violence. These seasons would likely be rated NC-17.
All of the violence in this show is done in a stylistically over-the-top manner where the goriness is done for catharsis rather than to disturb or upset the viewer. There are many scenes that can be considered disturbing, but all of them have a comedic tint to them.
This is arguably the most violent tv show you will ever see.
SO4 E4(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE: 10/10): Extreme sadistic violence, a man forced to masturbate in front of others before having his genitals lasered off, strong and bloody fight scenes with gore, use of a box cutter for mutilation, man burned to death, aftermath showing countless people massacred with loads of blood, extremely graphic scene showing frontal lobotomy, disturbing behavior.
SO4 E7(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:10/10) Extreme brutal violence, a man is gruesomely torn in half vertically by Homelander with tons of blood and all organs spilling out, a man amputates a woman's leg with all the gruesome process shown onscreen, a shapeshifting Supe tears their own skin off their body, splattering blood everywhere.
SO4 E8(LEVEL OF VIOLENCE:10/10) Extreme violence, a supe with superhuman strength quickly punches through a man's face, resulting in his head being a gory mess with graphic detail (gory but brief and sudden), a woman is brutally torn in half by Butcher resulting in her internal organs spilling out, a woman is pushed against a wall with tremendous force breaking her neck, a supe has his head twisted 180 degree (he survives this).
Very Extreme Violence, lots of Gore and Blood.
Overall extremely violent but in season four violence escalates and surpasses all three previous seasons. Probably the most graphically violent show to have ever exist.
TV-MA violence type: blood, gore, brutal and graphic.
Level of violence: 10/10. Extremely violent and gory.
Extreme aberrant sadistic grotesque shocking grisly graphic brutal bloody violence and gore.
As a whole, the violence in this show goes completely beyond what an R-rated film would allow. For reference, it's much more violent and gorier than the entire "Terrifier" franchise.
Homelander kills a whole crowd with laser eyes graphically bloody.
Level of gore: 10/10.
Level of brutal: 9/10.
Level of graphic: 8/10.
Profanity
Severe
Constant and pervasive profanity used throughout every single episode. Words like "fuck," "cunt," "shit," "asshole," "twat," "bitch," "dick" etc. are all said repeatedly.
Racial slurs and jokes are used.
The N-word was used 1 time in Season 1.
"Cunt" is mainly said by Butcher throughout almost every episode.
Season 1: 400 F-Words, 23 C-Words, Season 2: 373 F-Words, 29 C-Words, Season 3: 474 F-Words, 21 C-Words, Season 4: 520 F-Words, 22 C-Words. Therefore in total, there are 1763 F and 95 C-words. However, this is not the only profanity, racial slurs & more minor swearing is used even more often. See the points above. In conclusion, this is one of the most profane shows of all time.
Each season is more profane than the previous one.
The show contains strong language just as The Sopranos, South Park, and Big Mouth.
Season 3 has much more profanity than the previous two seasons.
The word "cunt" is used by a character in each episode of the series, but the word is not used in a derogatory or offensive manner. It is used by an British character who uses it for comedic effect. It is occasionally used by other characters for similar comedic effect.
The most frequent swears are fuck, cunt and shit.
The C-Word is used frequently.
There is a massive amount of swearing.
Season 4 contains just as much graphic swearing as the seasons before it.
Severe.
Pervasive strong language.
Homelander violently kills a man with the RUDE FINGER see more on the violence category on season 2 episode 5.
Level of language: 10/10.
Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking
Severe
A woman injects herself with a drug as if it were heroin.
Frenchie offers Hughie a candy flip, a combination of LSD and MDMA. Hughie declines so Frenchie takes it and then rolls and smokes a joint.
Most drug use in this series is either implied drug use or usuage of a fictional drug.
The drug use is fairly frequent but it is never really condoned or glorified.
In Season 3, there are some party scenes where cocaine is consumed.
Season 3 contains way more drug use.
There are vapes and cigarettes used throughout the show.
Drinking throughout. Cigarette smoking and vaping throughout. Marijuana is smoked occasionally. Many scenes of cocaine use. A man takes LSD. Another takes magic mushrooms. Another smokes a cigarette laced with ketamine. Some MDMA use. A man snorts amphetamines. Another man takes an enema filled with heroin. There are scenes where a few characters snort what are implied to be opiates and benzodiazepines. Rohypnol is used to incapacitate a man. A man laces cookies with carfentanyl.
There is vaping and smoking used throughout this show.
Web-Weaver is a junkie and is seen high in one scene, and firecracker calls him a Junkie and says he'd do anything for his fix.
Frightening & Intense Scenes
Severe
The entire series as a whole is EXTREMELY intense, and there are a ton of scenes that can (and probably will) make viewers emotional. The show's violence is graphic, bloody, and it is shown in all detail. But at the same time, it is quite stylized and a bit over the top. Therefore not as intense or disturbing, more comedic than dramatic.
There is a scene where Homelander and Maeve attempt to rescue a plane that was hijacked. Some mistakes are made and the events that follow are quite upsetting to watch.
The character Homelander is an extremely frightening and disturbing presence, being a narcissistic, psychotic and sadistic megalomaniac with the mental and emotional maturity of a grade school bully who pleasures himself in hurting others. As such, any scene with him can be very intense and disturbing.
There are some graphically violent scenes that can be disturbing to watch.
Stormfront's backstory may upset or frighten viewers.
Hughie is shown to be suffering from severe PTSD, which has been triggered by the violent and gruesome death of his girlfriend, Robin. The depiction is quite raw and realistic, and it may be disturbing.
The whole show is incredibly violent and explicit.
The show can get very emotional and sad at times.
The deaths may be intense or disturbing for some viewers.
Butcher's childhood is very sad and hard to watch.
The extent of most of (but not all of) the violence and nudity in this series exceeds an MPA R rating, which has been surrendered, and would likely step into NC-17 territory much like the entire franchise itself, and it also affects many other TV-MA or BBFC 18 series.
The intensity and violent, sexual and drug content increase in severity with each season and eventually become extreme in season three. While there are only a handful of episodes to have explicit sexual content, the ones that do are very graphic. Each episode of the third season has extreme violence while only some in the first two seasons do.
Due to the immeasurably graphic content of this show, it's suitable for ages 18 and up only, but most people won't be able to watch it comfortably.
Rated TV-MA/NC-17 for pervasive explicit intense sustained sequences of extreme gruesome grisly graphic brutal bloody violence and gore, disturbing sadistic content, graphic gruesome and grisly images, extreme aberrant and grotesque depravity, violent anti-social behavior, mature thematic material, pornographic sexual content, pervasive graphic nudity, explicit dialogue, crude references, pervasive extreme language and drug use throughout.
Totally extreme in everything, and manages to be every bit as exploitatively graphic as the original comic book of the same name.
If "The Boys" had a movie, it would definitely have to be edited severely for an R rating.
Suggested MPA Rating (US Viewers only): Rated NC-17 for extreme graphic sadistic brutal bloody violence and carnage, grotesque shocking images, dialogue throughout and explicit sexual content.
The whole show is extremely disturbing.
This is Amazon Prime's only NC-17 rated show.
Level of funny: 9/10.
Level of sad: 7/10.
Level of intense: 7/10.
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