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THB #164: The Boys - Penis & Cameo Season 3

THB #164: The Boys - Penis & Cameo Season 3

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May 31, 2022
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THB #164: The Boys - Penis & Cameo Season 3
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The Amazon series, The Boys - about superheroes in the future, the corporation that tries to control them, and the effort of a rogue group to control both groups - has become the visual body splatter champion of all time. It started the first season with a few good splats. One of the set-up deaths in the series is a young woman who gets in the way of the fastest person on earth - A-Train - and is reduced to little more than entrails and flying blood. A-Train later tells a friend that he hit her so hard that one of her molars got caught in his throat.

This is a very specific flavor of TV show.

The funny thing is that Amazon has another show, animated, called Invincible, which covers some similar territory and came out after Season 2 of The Boys. It was even more graphic in its sex and violence than The Boys.

I have no idea whether the showrunners of The Boys saw this as a challenge. But Season 3 ups the amount of splatter, the amount of pretty graphic sex, and the combination. A lot.

I…

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