[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Boys” Season 1, including the ending.]Like a kitten clinging to the top branch of a tall tree, “The Boys” is always on the edge of disaster.
The dark and violent Amazon series teeters between vicious cultural commentary and over-indulgent naïveté.
Thus is the peril of making a show that relies on familiar tropes long enough to upend them, just as often as it leans on tough-guy posturing to entertain.
But even though the first season will make you feel icky enough to drop out entirely, Eric Kripke’s eight-episode adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book proves itself savvy enough in Season 1 to earn all that cringing.
Someone or something swoops in to save the day, and one decision in particular ensures the kitten won’t have to give up any of its nine lives just yet, but we’ll get to that in a second.
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