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The Boys review: Amazon's superhero series flips the genre on its head, but also feeds off it
FirstpostCreator: Eric Kripke Cast: Karl Urban, Elisabeth Shue, Erin Moriarty, Antony Starr, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Chace Crawford, Nathan Mitchell, Laz Alonso, Jack Quaid, Karen Fukuhara, Tomer Kapon The Marvel and DC assembly lines have been churning out superheroes aplenty in recent years, with more new supes arriving each year in bookstores and cinemas. Eric Kripke’s adaptation of Garth Ennis’s comic book series distills the clichés and core tropes of the superhero genre into an irreverent send-up. When Vought offers Hughie hush money to keep the Seven’s image immaculate and A-Train gets away scot-free, he reluctantly teams up with Billy Butcher and the other Boys — Mother’s Milk, Frenchie and The Female — to get justice for his dead girlfriend. In a parallel plot-line, we get an insider’s view of the darker side of superhero mythology through the eyes of the Seven’s new recruit, Annie January aka Starlight.
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