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3 Days from release and the final trailer has dropped.

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/adds to list

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Did the same myself.;)

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I added it to the tv schedule list as a new series a while ago. I am going to be doing the new list for the fall tv season over the next couple of days so make sure you check it out.

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The Boys is already availaable on Amazon! It's also already been renewed for a second season.

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Watched the first two episodes - enjoying it.

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So am I.;)

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Saw episode 1 tonight, good so far, looking forward to more when I get off holiday.

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It gets better! Looking forward to a second series.

It has a good twist in the tale at the end.:)

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I have only seen episode 1 but I fell in love with it right from the opening scene. The thing which has confused me all my life with regards to my realism factor is that with every iteration of Superman you always get some armed bank robbers, high speed chase etc etc and that is without the uber bady in the film and the bad guys just keep coming back and trying again and again because they know they can get away with. Superman, like Starfleet, has the means to stop or put down his enemies yet always goes to pain staking lengths to do the complete opposite often to his detriment. If Superman showed them who was boss and that he was a force to be reckoned with everyone would think twice before embarking on a life of crime and the crime rate would go down. I think it is great that he is throwing bad guys down the street and hopefully we'll see some heat vision from the sky. All you need to do is set an example, the word will spread and everyone will fall in line.

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You are Governor Tarkin and I claim my £5. :D

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I am just over half way through. I have to say that I thought the bit with the baby at the end of episode 5 was hilarious.

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I think that's why The Boys is very different to a lot of mainstream hero's.

Superman and others fight for truth justice and the American way. They are there to save people and stop bad guys, they are not murderers so will do everything they can to avoid deaths. Same for Batman, he usually avoids guns, instead incapacitating his enemies.

I'm up to ep5 so far with this and the 'heroes' are a bit out of control and pretty loose cannons. It's great though.

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Just finished it and I must say this was a fantastic surprise of a series. There have been a lot of scifi series coming out of Amazon and Netflix such as Origin, Nightflyer and Another Life which have been very sub par. The Boys was fantastic. It is very much like Game of Thrones where it isn't black and white and you don't have clear cut bad guys and good guys. I have enjoyed it so much so that I force rationed myself to one episode per night because I didn't want it to finish. I wish they had made a full season of 24 episodes to finish the current story because it would be a amazing for them to tell it all in one go and as it went along you could imagine the social media discussions going on and the hype building up. Shame they decided to spread it over multiple smaller seasons and we have now got to wait a year to find out what happens.

I loved how it ended, there is so much going on and all I can say is thank god we know it has already been renewed for a second season.

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They did change quiet a number of things from the comics though.

Some of the plots from this first season doesn't happen till late on in the story of the comics.

Very good adaptation though.

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Just finished Season 1.

I didnt expect that ending :)

Looking forward to Season 2.

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Told you it had a good twist at the end.:)

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I've also just binge watched Season 1 over 2 days, loving it I need more!

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yeah, I think it is going to be like GoT where everyone has their redeeming qualities and the good guys aren't necessarily angels and the bad guys aren't always bad.

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That was fantastic. You could easily forget the source material here. This stands well enough on its own. Karl Urban is criminally forgot about, still waiting for Dredd 2.

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At last something superhero-e with grit and intelligence. Love the sequence where the baby is used as a weapon. Great series

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Karl Urban's dodgy accent is a bit annoying. The guy simply can't 'do' other accents well.

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yeah, I would have to listen to the two side by side but I basically saw him as Skurge from Ragnarok.

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can't wait

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Wow. Looking Good. :)

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It's a shame they won't release all episodes at once!

3 episodes on September 4th, then 5 episodes weekly meaning the last will air on October 9th, unless their plans change.

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yeah, it is very addictive and the kind of thing you want to be able to blast through because you can't get enough of it. It is a shame it has been delayed as it would have been perfect if they could have dropped the entire season next week while everyone is still in lockdown (kind of). I know it would have been impossible to plan but if we could have had a series like this released every week over the last couple of months lockdown would have been bliss.

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I was under the impression most people are back at work now, I've luckily never had to go into lockdown.

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I am one of the shielding peeps so I am off until the end of July.

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:hyper: :D

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Yeah i am looking forward to it. They have really hit the nail on the head with this.

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It's a shame they won't drop it all in one go!

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Whaaaaaaat? I am sure season 1 dropped as a whole season. I dont recall watching it weekly. I know I am going to enjoy this so much and bearing in mind that it is one continuous story, I am tempted to wait until the entire season has aired just so I can watch it all in one go. I probably won't get it all done in one day but I like being able to watch two or three episodes at a time.

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I prefer shows to be weekly. :)

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I couldn't handle weekly, I'm now on episode 7 of Homeland and I only started around 5ish.

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I think I do to to be fair. I moan about having to wait but that is all part of the fun. When you watch stuff like GoT, B5 and DS9 it doesn't have the same impact when you binge watch it. When you have a war that is going on which you experience over weeks (and years in the case of those series) you really feel it takes its toll on the characters. When you binge watch it and it is all over in the same day or 3 years in the same week it doesn't have the same effect. I can speak from experience, anything worth watching I watched live and weekly as it aired over the years and then been able to go back ands rewatch at my leisure.

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I think we have rose tinted glasses on when it comes to old fashioned, 20+ week tv broadcast seasons. The quality of episodes varied sometimes wildly from week to week and decent gritty arcs (such as the Dominion War) would rarely surface in any meaningful way for more than a couple of weeks at a time. Shows commissioned for streaming services aren’t bound to the 40 minute run time required to fit adverts into a one hour broadcast slot, they’re not bound to the three mini cliffhangers required to run into the commercial break, and they’re not forced to pad the story arc out to the requirements of a US TV season. An 8-10 week run of a series like The Boys is much more like a well plotted and paced novel, and a good novel is a true page turner ... you keep reading based on how much time you have, not according to the whim of a scheduler.

I’m curious as to why anything is dropped weekly on a streaming service, and why it’s inconsistent - not everything is.

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I think their are pros and cons and it all depends on the type of series. There are series like GoT which have a very specific story to tell and it will take as many or as few episodes as it needs. Then you have got series like SG1 and Star Trek which are weekly adventures with an overlaying story arc. Even though you have your midseason fillers I do enjoy "full" seasons for those kind of series, they allow you to develop characters, expand the environments they exist in and make the universe more believalbe. Grey's Anatomy is a good example of a current series like that, it has been going 16 seasons and there has never been a bad episode. Sometimes when you restrict a season to 8-10 episodes you run the risk of not developing the story enough to make the world/universe realistic. Scifi series are most at risk of this due to production costs and these are the series which require more depth and exploration. I loved what they for Mars in season 4 of The Expanse but that was for a different reason.

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Given the choice of 10, 13 or 22, I always think the 13 episode seasons are best.

They don't need padding episodes, but there is enough to develop the story and a few weekly cliff hangers.

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The compromise for me is 16 episodes. It is long enough to tell a good story, really sink your teeth in to and become part of whilst also allowing you to cut out the padding eps everyone talks about. 16 eps would quite nicely fit into either season as sept-dec or jan-apr; a quality series like The Expanse shown every week straight through without any breaks.

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I agree, plenty of time to develop without stretching it out with unecessary "fluff" to get to the 22 episode target.

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What about the music episode of Grey's? That was terrible, admit it. :D

For length I would go 13 episodes, that tends to be perfect. 16 does work too, but prefer 13.

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Looks better everytime I see a new trailer. :D

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Yeah, it looks absolutely amazing.

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Season 2 of The Boys has been a huge hit for Amazon and they are planning a spin-off

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/the...on-1234782755/

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Is the whole season out yet so I can binge?

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9th October finale

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That title, The Boys, it's ok but, the girls look pretty good imo.

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Starlight :naughty:

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Finale later. Enjoyed season 1 a lot more but its still good nonetheless. Always been a fan of compact seasons that stick to a solid storyline rather than procedural shows but for a change I do think I'd like a few more episodes a season to open up another plot or do something with a single character. The Deep's breakdown episode in season 1 ending with a dolphin through a windscreen was gold.

Ultimately the concept of this makes it really fun to watch. That's probably why I want a slightly longer season.

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I was going to say pretty much the same thing. This is so good like GoT that you just feel like you are getting into it and it is over. I definitely feel like it needs to be a 16 episode season, it feels like we have hardly got going with the story this season and there hasn't been as much character development as there was in season 1.

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I enjoyed season 2 but The Deep was way too underused ,hopefully that is just building for next season though.

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As per my previous post, I'm generally not a fan of procedural shows with ludicrous amounts of boring episodes, with the exception of stand out shows like The X-Files, Fringe a few others and the exception that was '24' So The Boys fits right in with my liking for shows that progress the main story arc with each episode.

However, it's the superhero genre, that changes a lot in retrospect to the above. I absolutely believe the show could benefit from a few Character of the week (monster of the week) episodes that standalone from the 8 arc episodes. The Deep solo episode and a few other ideas to spin.

There's so much potential with this show and they're already sowing the seeds for spinoffs, prequels and everything in between.

The Nazi vought roots is an entire season in it's own right.

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I agree, there is so much more story to tell and the characters are so rich that you can afford to do a few standalone eps. Plenty of other series have recently (and annoyingly) put the main story on hold to go off on a tangent and do something else. The recent seasons of The Walking Dead and The 100 come to mind. Homelander was central to the story in this season and at a convenient and climatic point I would have liked to have seen a dedicated flashback going back to his childhood to show us where it all went wrong and how he ended up being the person he is today. There is so much more they can do. I have endorsed it as a general rule of thumb and it definitely applies here, seasons needs to be 16 episodes long.

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The economics of streaming don’t really support seasons of that length. US TV seasons are long partly because that’s the industry’s standard approach to filling a known number of broadcast hours. Also, beyond season 1, the advertising revenue for a given show is reasonably well known so doing the same thing, week after week, for an extended period, adds some certainty to the bottom line.

The risk of a weak season for a streamer is non-completion, and the subscriber spending their time on something else instead, thus lowering the value of the subscription in the subscriber’s estimation. Keeping seasons a manageable length eliminates the filler episodes that inevitably result from writers running out of ideas or actors needing a week off.

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https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/the...ay-1234928426/


I can't wait.

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Just a teaser but this series is so good that it is enough to get you excited.

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Forget tissues, you are going to need to take over an Andrex warehouse for this:

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Your posts are making no sense, why would anyone need tissues (or toilet paper) :confused:

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Season 3 episode 1 watched.... Not sure I can put into words some of that! Lol