Its amazing how many times people are handed ready to go material and they go off and try to reinvent the wheel from scratch. Its like that with The Boys. I read the whole 72 issues for the graphic novel and it was good, not great but good. Not so much social media oriented bit darker bit more perverted, I don't see why they choose to throw all that out, just borrow some characters and certain concepts and rewrite the whole thing. But for what it is, its a good distopian hero universe where being a hero means market value, movie contracts, merchendise and public apearances. It is not a show about heroes but about those who without powers are trying to bring them down, punish the guilty. It is about loosing innocence and blurring the lines between good and bad, what is just and what is not.
