THE BOYS Season 1 "Honest Trailer" Takes Aim At JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SNYDER CUT, Disney, And More

THE BOYS Season 1 "Honest Trailer" Takes Aim At JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE SNYDER CUT, Disney, And More

Ahead of the return of The Boys to Amazon this Friday, the "Honest Trailers" team has shared their own unique take on the show's first season, taking aim at Justice League: The Snyder Cut, and more...

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By JoshWilding - Sep 02, 2020 03:09 AM EST
Filed Under: The Boys

Season two of The Boys arrives on Amazon this Friday, and as we've seen all eight episodes, we can assure you it's well worth watching. In our spoiler-free review, we noted that the series is, "back, and bigger, better, and f***ing crazier than ever before. With season two, the Amazon Prime series firmly establishes itself as one of the best TV shows available to watch today."

To tide us over until then, we have an "Honest Trailer" for The Boys' first season which doesn't shy away from taking aim at everything from Justice League: The Snyder Cut to Amazon itself. 

In the case of the latter, the trailer compares the horror elements in the show to the working conditions in Amazon, a joke the streaming service's parent company is unlikely to appreciate. As for Zack Snyder's movie, the narrator points out that the premise of the show is one the filmmaker would no doubt love to make with DC Comics' heroes if Warner Bros. hadn't stopped him. 

The villainous Vought, meanwhile, ends up being compared to Disney (like the fictional company, that studio definitely appears to be slowly taking over the world bit by bit). 

Check out the "Honest Trailer" for The Boys below:
 

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GothamSon
GothamSon - 9/2/2020, 5:06 AM
^ Nah Joker, the show spins an edgy-for-the-sake-of-edgy comic book, into a wry social commentary about the dangers of celeb worship, wish fulfillment, the vapidness of social media; the pitfalls of 'MeToo'; with a strong subtext of how we form parasitic relationships with mega corporations to feed us the drug we crave (adulation of superheroes).

And it does all this with fantastic performances from likes of Anthony Starr who take 'heroic' archetypes and forces us to confront the real-world implications of absolute power in the hands of superpowered sociopaths.

Plus, it's darkly funny and realizes the necessity of not taking itself too seriously.
DalekCraigWasson
DalekCraigWasson - 9/2/2020, 5:30 AM
@GothamSon @Joker2019 - I think GothamSon hits it on the nail. The show isn't really about superheroes (unlike both the comic and show of Watchmen which is about examining power and authority and identity); the show is about celebrity. Society worships them and believes the image their handlers show us, but behind closed doors, some are genuinely good people (Annie), some are monsters (Homelander), and most are just [frick]ed up and flawed regular people in over their heads (A-Train, Maeve). It's got nothing to do with Watchmen, either version, except having superheroes and "darkness."

Also, while the Watchmen show in general is heads and tails above The Boys, there was nothing in The Boys that disappointed me as much as Watchmen's finale where Lady Trieu is revealed to be a supervillain who wants to take over the world as Dr. Manhattan, the good guys stop her, Veidt is arrested for the OG comic (!), and a cop is given unlimited power. It's like if the comic has ended with, well, Veidt being arrested, the Squid never teleported, and Rorschach and Nite Owl end the comic shaking hands like the Batman '66 intro.
GothamSon
GothamSon - 9/2/2020, 6:02 AM
@DalekCraigWasson - Yeah some storybeats in Watchmen fell flat with me, but overall, it was an impressive achievement in comicbook television. It cut to the core of Alan Moore's world with a wholly new story, much better than Synder did. I can't remember which Youtuber review I watched recently, but they summed it up very well (I'm paraphrasing here):

'The Boys' comes at a time when mainstream viewers are ready to engage with the deconstruction of superheroes. In 2004, 'The Incredibles' pulled it off by masquerading its themes behind a CGI family film. In 2009, Watchmen didn't have mass appeal because superhero shared universes were in their fledgling stages (the MCU). Mainstream audiences had no appetite for socio-political deconstructions of costumed vigilantism. In a pre-'Avengers' world where big hero teamups were just on the verge of mass public consiousness.

Flash forward to today, people are willing and eager to revel in 'thinky' tear-downs of comicbook archetypes. And shows like 'The Boys' are lapping it up, deservedly.



MrDandy
MrDandy - 9/2/2020, 8:24 PM
Loved season 1 even though I thought the trailers looked awful. Pleasantly surprised
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