Agreed.

Amazon isn't an Over-The-Air Free TV network, it's $12.99 per month or $119.00 per year.

This is a ploy on their part to make viewers pay for at least 2 months of Amazon Prime to see the show in "Real Time".

And I'd cancel HBO Max if I was paying more than the $7.50 a month rate I'm getting through Spectrum because it's a shit streamer that offers far less relevant content than either Starz or Showtime, both of which cost $7.50 per month combined.

Yep

It may also be a ploy on their part to try and stretch out limited release content in the wake of rona production cutdowns.

I find that to be extremely unlikely, especially this far in advance because if so, why not push the entire series back one month and drop it all at once, as they've always done?

This just seems like a money grab and poor way to treat customers, especially during a worldwide pandemic.

Holy shit

Well they have to. This is like the best show everrr.

It's a very realistic take on what it would be like if there were really supers... Great show, Karl Urban rocks...

:) Good to see they aren’t going to be backing off in season 2.

LMAO:clap:

Lmao this show

Holy ****. I laughed so hard I was wheezing!

This may be my favorite series of all time.

I’m paying $99 a year for Amazon Prime shipping. I’d pay 4X-5X that a year if Prime didn’t exist. The TV Prime ain’t worth $119 a year as a stand alone product.

Newest - Stormfront, . . . in my pants, . . . amirite?!?!


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Aya Cash is hawt as fawk

She's always had a bit of a 'lazy' paunch to her that keeps her from being truly hot.

It showed up a season or two into "You're the Worst" - just that typical party girl gut that's not a deal-breaker but keeps her from being a legit smokeshow.

At that point she just looks like a 100 girls you see on your average college campus.

For me, there are [at least] two VERY distinct types of hot.

There's hot that erects your genitals, and there's hot that melts your heart.

The former is purely visual, could even just be a part. Boobs, legs, eyes, feet, etc.

Your Gal Godot, prime Pamela Anderson, etc.

The latter is where you can picture yourself holding her purse while she shops and not even minding.

Jenna Fischer is the prototype. Jenny Slate is another. Aya is that kind of hot. 'put up with their moods and nod 'yes honey' hot.'

And then there is the Venn Diagram girl who does both:

https://i.redd.it/7kz77iwiwgd21.jpg

That's pretty damn good considering college age girls range anywhere from 18-22 years old while Aya Cash is 38.

Yeah, I see the distinction.

For me that's a simple one - 'hot vs. cute'.

I can see putting cash in the 'cute' category, but not 'hot'.

And she's funny. And I thought I read she's like insanely smart as well.

Hard to find anything to criticize w/ Milana Vayntrub.

She also makes a living in part on her appearance and has never had kids.

So it's a bit of a wash here. but ultimately if we're gonna say "hot for 38" I'll consider the argument, but the blanket 'hot' statement doesn't allow for a grading curve.

I'd only say "Hot for 38" when compared to average college girls, most of whom won't look anything like Aya Cash 20 years down the road.

No question.

Living in a college town has really driven home for me how difficult it is for women to be unattractive at 21 years old.

Not the case by 30...

And conversely, my view is warped from living in Hollywood for 27+ years.

For every hot chick you see on TV, there are another 10,000 behind her, waiting to be "discovered".

It's absolutely insane.

But there has to be another distinction somewhere, because there's a ton of 'cute' chicks who get a short leash. The cute/hot I'm talking about is that something that turns off your male assertiveness and turns you into a puppy dog.

But then, if I think on it, there are a ton of hot/hot chicks who are so vapid I can't even summon a chub when I see them, like the 'some countries don't have maps, and such as' chick. So it cuts both ways. Point is like there's a distinction between hot and Gal Godot hot, there's a distinction between cute and Aya Cash cute.

Holy shit. I didn't realize she was that old. I figured she was closer to my age, ie, 32. Never could have guessed she was creeping up on 40.

I'd do gross, unspeakable things to the actress who plays Starlight.

Yeah....

She's on the Baby Lee 'cute' scale for me. She's just WAAAAAAY up it.

She's relatively ordinary in the curves, tits and ass scale - but I just wanna give her a hug and introduce her to my parents.

Whereas the actress that plays Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) is on the hot scale, though weirdly, she's not as hot as Starlight is cute (if I'm making any sense).

She's got great curves and a plus rack.

Starlight - 9.5 on the cute scale.
Maeve - 7 on the hot scale.

It's just different curves. And has been previously noted, Milana Vayntrub is pretty much a 10 on both of them.

None of them have shit on Kimiko.

https://i.imgur.com/WeFi3bS.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/YztX9sy.jpg

Kinda hard to tell in season 1 because they make her up to look ratty, but Karen Fukuhara is a straight up goddess.

Also she has "****" in her last name which intensifies her hotness.

You may be onto something there.

Did NOT see her coming at all.

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First 3 episodes of season 2 are up y'all. After having watched them, all I'm gonna say is holy shit, Stormfront is ****ing terrifying. She makes Homelander look like a sweetheart.

The first episode of the season didn't really do a lot for me, but by the time I finished the third I was hooked again.

As excited as I am for this series, I'm not going to watch a single episode until all 8 are available.

**** Amazon.

How long are we agreeing to wait to openly discuss episodes without spoiler tags? Until after all episodes have dropped?

The same for me, though I’d add episode two as well. There were a couple of moments but, over all it kind of just drug along until the end of three.

Antony Starr is great as Homelander. Had a friend mention he was in a show called Banshee which is a Cinemax series. I finished all 4 seasons of it in less than 2 weeks and it's one of my favorite shows of all time. Definitely check it out once you get done with The Boys.

Awwahrrr, shut yer trap you dumb bird.

Welcome to the Banshee club. What a fine ass-kicking, tits-and-ass, pure entertainment series it was.

So 3 episodes up front and then they'll release a new one every Friday? What a load of shit. Hopefully the episodes get leaked early and the pirates put them all up on rarbg.

Maybe I'm expecting too much. The first season blew me away and the second seems to be dragging along. The first season spent some time with backstories for the characters however nothing on Stormfront. I also find The Deep really annoying...

I agree that The Deep’s scenes really drag on for me. I couldn’t care less about his arc and just want them to get back to the main plot whenever he’s on screen.

Yep.

Patton Oswalt might've worked as the voice of the gills if he hadn't done the same character on Happy! and if I hadn't binged half of A.P. Bio right before.

Is A.P. Bio good? I love Dennis in It's Always Sunny.

I'd characterize it as . . . uneven humorous.

It's a sitcom, and it does that well with decent characters, bits and lines. The premise and execution requires a suspension of disbelief on another level though.

Basically, 'Dennis' is a frustrated academic who got hornswoggled out of some of the acclaim and status he thinks he's entitled to, and has to return to his hometown and teach a HS Bio class. Only he spends all his time scheming and using his students to try to get some o his status back.

Think of Costanza's premise for the show within a show on Seineld, where the lead gets into a fender-bender and is sentenced to be a butler. It's ridiculous, but could work if the writing is good, if you get my meaning.

Basically the premise is just what they hang their bits and plots on. Lots of teachers not teaching, and students not studenting.

But it's a reliable chuckle. . .

I really thought the big reveal would be that Becca's a Homelander groupie and it was consensual

I was irritated a bit by how this plot line developed, even if it makes sense (I cant fathom a mother not caring more for her child in most instances). Good episode even though it was apparent this was the budget saver/plot service episode.

Don't wanna ruin dinner

https://i.imgur.com/Lm5oyyc.mp4

Black Noir is a badass

Not your fault, but there needs to be some way to 'super' spoiler this particular spoiler, as it's a huge twist of the comics that may or may not even show up in the show itself [some say that particular narrative has already been thwarted or at least neutered], and even the existence of it changes how you watch the show.

I mean, it's an inherent danger of a show with big twists that already exists in another medium.

[maybe add something like 'don't look unless you want the existing comics to affect your viewing experience']

On another board I frequent, people are required to notate the spoiler is related to the comics.

So according to the showrunner, it was the show's producers that decided against dropping all episodes at once, not Amazon, yet the guy wonders why people are giving it 1 star on the various rating sites.

:facepalm:

It's really difficult to underestimate the stupidity of such a move, especially when millions upon millions of people are still stuck at home.

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I read that interview with Kripke. I thought it was a smart move by Amazon to spread the series out. I couldn’t have been more wrong. I was thinking of the normal world. As you point out here, this is a COVID world and now is not the time to play those games.

This show just keeps getting better.

That end montage was pretty great.

Homelander is so ****ing stupid.

Yeah this season has taken him in a different direction.

He went from calculating sociopath in S1 to just something of an overpowered doofus with an arrested adolescence.

I've never read the comics or anything so I'm not sure if this was inevitable based on the source material, but it does make him something of a lesser villain.

Don't know which I liked better

The diversity representation supe movie franchise industry
or
The church ad satirizing the Gillette commercial campaign.

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The bit about Maeve's girlfriend having to dress like a dude because society wants representation as long as one of the girls represented clear cut gender roles had me in tears

Well, I backtracked and decided to watch the first five episodes of this season.

I never read the comics nor did I know anything about the story arc but I have to say, I've found this season to be fairly boring and unnecessary. Maybe the final three episodes will change the overall direction but I'm not counting on it. I actually liked Season 2 of "The Umbrella Academy" way better than Season 2 of "The Boys", at least so far.

If you view the supe exposure as more of a catalyst to the story going forward than a finish line, I think you're closer to where they're trying to take the story.

But like you, I haven't read the source material.

I think ultimately it's a "It's not the destination, but the journey" sort of thing. There's been plenty of pure entertainment value in the episodes thus far even if there hasn't been an overwhelming amount of plot advancement.

Yeah, I wasn't all that into the first episode of the season, but for me it's been more entertaining with each ensuing episode.

I think the comparison for me is Better Call Saul. Those of us that watched every episode of Breaking Bad knew Saul Goodman but the beauty of BCS is that we get to see how Jimmy became Saul Goodman. And while it often moves at a snail's pace and becomes tedious at times (as did the brilliant Mad Men), there's great interest in seeing that final transformation into the guy we all knew (and some of us loved), which is the great motivator to continue watching.

With The Boys, and to the same extent for me, The Umbrella Academy, I often find myself asking the question "Why am I watching this show?".

There's no doubt there have been some fantastic moments for each series but it just feels like I'm watching just to see what happens, not so much because of anticipation set up by the story arc or because I am just so engaged by the acting, direction and/or score. Nope, the main reason I continue to watch is because I've invested X amount of hours to see where it goes, mostly because other people think it's "good".

I guess in short, it's kind of a weird reason to be watching a program in which I don't really care about the characters much, especially when their initial motivations have been resolved.

I'm sure I'll watch the final three episodes but just like TUA, I have no real excitement or anticipation about additional seasons.

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‘The Boys’ Spinoff in Development at Amazon Following Massive Season 2 Launch

"The Boys” could soon be getting a spinoff. Variety has learned that Amazon is fast-tracking development on a new iteration of the popular comic book series adaptation.

The news comes just under three weeks after the premiere of Season 2 of the series, which is based on The New York Times best-selling comic of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The second season is airing weekly, while the first dropped all at once, with the finale set to air Oct. 9. According to Amazon, the second season had the most-watched global launch of an Amazon original series ever, with the episodes to date having grown the audience from Season 1 by 89%. It was renewed for a third season ahead of the Season 2 premiere while also adding an aftershow hosted by Aisha Tyler.

The spinoff is set at America’s only college exclusively for young adult superheroes (or “supes”) that is run by Vought International. It is described as an irreverent, R-rated series that explores the lives of hormonal, competitive supes as they put their physical, sexual, and moral boundaries to the test, competing for the best contracts in the best cities. Part college show, part Hunger Games — with all the heart, satire and raunch of “The Boys.”

Craig Rosenberg is writing the pilot and will serve as showrunner and executive producer under his overall deal with Sony Pictures Television, with Rosenberg currently serving as writer and executive producer on the original series. “The Boys” creator Eric Kripke will also executive produce along with “The Boys” executive producer Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and James Weaver of Point Grey Pictures. Original Film’s Neal H. Moritz and Pavun Shetty, who also executive produce “The Boys,” are also executive producers on the spinoff. Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television will produce.

The second season sees the titular vigilantes on the run and hunted by the supes. Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) are in hiding after the explosive events of the first season finale, while Butcher (Karl Urban) is off on his own for a bit. Meanwhile, Homelander (Antony Starr) is trying to expand his power in a few new ways and Starlight (Erin Moriarty) is trying to navigate her own place in the Seven as the group shifts. Stormfront (Aya Cash), a social-media savvy new supe, comes in with an agenda of her own, while a larger threat looms, leaving Vought seeking to capitalize on the nation’s paranoia

I gotta say:

Wonder if Hughie is gonna take that A-Train song personally.

'better make way, or you'll be pushin' up daisies.'

This should accelerate Vought's contingency protocol

That Cindy girl is scary. She might even be able to **** up Homelander and Stormfront.

Thi season is way less interesting than the first so far. Turning Homelander into the sjw-viewed prototype is unimaginative and boring. If they veer any further into politics I'm done. There isn't a single compelling story line. It feels like they've run out of gas already.

Has anyone watched Utopia on Amazon yet? It's a remake of a UK series. I've watched the first 3 episodes and it's a mixed bag so far. I might start watching the original first.

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Holy crap, super dick!!!

NSFW

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They straight up got that shit from Shawn Wayans character Ray from Scary Movie 2

I started the original, but only watched the first episode. Curious to see where it goes.