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Amazon's new series 'The Boys' is an irreverent superhero pastiche, a virile abrasive attack at the role superheroes play in our current culture. Did somebody say Watchmen?! V for Vendetta?! Marshal Law!? With regular instalments of Hollywood superhero films, the popularity of Marvel and the MCU, DC and the DCEU, this is the perfect time to release a show like this. Vought Parodies The Justice League with characters that homage to Aquaman (The Deep), Superman (Homelander), Batman (Black Noir), The Flash (A-Train) and Wonder Woman (Queen Maeve). But does it meet the standards of the media that has proceeded it or did The Boys do us dirty? The answer is yes. To both of them. Find out why in this video with me.
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[@jnava121]

NitPix you only talk about dumb shit nowadays and have no idea whats good anymore. you probably only like orange is the new black .. Essentially this comic was written like justice league not really pointing anything out must be the british educational system , you literally plagiarized this from the written synopsis, now that the boys is famous u sobered up from the pub and made a video

[@MarcRitzMD]

Hell no

[@-Homelander-]

I get your point about what happened to Lost happening to The Boys, but the thing about that show is that they didn't have source material. The writers were basically shitting out stories every year without really knowing where any of it was going. The Boys however has 70+ comic book issues to go through.

[@jaredbaldon852]

@@-Homelander- Yeah but they're not following the comics. In fact it's wildly different if you consider the end of season 1. And nitpix, what you're unhappy about is traditionally referred to as a cliff hanger. TV shows used to do it all the time......

[@imblacksoimslow5731]

I love mother's milk!😉😉

[@plasticnoodles9678]

What kind of *baguette* has Vision as their favourite

[@luca.quinn1]

Plastic Noodles one who read the comics I presume

[@antoinechamberland2127]

Lmao

[@liamace1107]

Nationality bias, he loves Vision because he's a brit

[@jme6036]

Liam Ace half the actors in the mcu are British

[@JinKazama1993]

@@luca.quinn1 Ahh, I thought we was only sayin cinema only. Then my pick is easy. Batman!

[@supermutantsam1160]

Butcher calling Homelander a "Saint" was him referring to his public image. Homelander's been able to cover up pretty much every scandal and mistake he's ever been responsible for, and he's done so much more thoroughly than pretty much every other superhero in this world. To the public, Homelander is a saint. Obviously, Butcher *knows* Homelander isn't like that, but his point is that it's gonna be really hard to publicly oppose Homelander when they don't have any evidence of him not being the godlike figure the people worship.

[@livsatchell8440]

also Butcher didn't go out of his way to talk about Homelander, Hughie asked what he was like

[@-Homelander-]

You know I can see through the walls of your house, right?

[@bbbabrock]

Yeah. I think you nailed that bit better than was done in the video.

[@esinach]

Exactly this. Also it was there telling the audience about his public perception too. I know this is Nitpix, but very nit picky. Cliffhangers are fine, knowing about some of the stories from the comic, I cant wait to see what they do. I think Amazon are more committed to TV shows Netflix usually scrap them after a couple of seasons. So I have hope, Ideally I think it can run for 4 seasons without getting stale.

[@johnsnow04]

They are all Saints in public eyes. Butcher didn't reveal it because of lazy writing and the fact that you weren't suppose to know that until he shots that plane. Its the same reason why he isn't there when Starlight gives BJ to Deep even though in the comics Homelander initiates that scene and she blows him, Black Noir and A Train and why they have a scene where he presents himself as Saint with "I wanna hear how much people you saved today". My point is, stop giving Hollywood lazy writing excuses. Its because idiots like that we get lazy stories. Because even when it happens you people find even lazier excuses for it.

[@comfyDev]

>Every good story ever written has 3 acts [Screams in Shakespearean English]

[@jesusstaccato8448]

It's like saying "every good song has two verses"

[@geckomaniac3801]

Did anyone notice the fly constantly swirling around the characters? I feel like that might be another superhero coming in the future?

[@auden9540]

The showrunner in a reddit AMA said they were just actual flies that they decided not to CGI out.

[@synthsol5522]

Auden that’s exactly what I expect to hear, deflecting from the actual answer

[@psychoboyjack285]

... you're thinking too much here. I even thought the flies were there because one said "bullshit" when the fly appeared, and the other was when Annie or Hughie was telling some lie and the fly appeared again.

[@unlimited-edge]

PsychoBoyJack I was thinking the same thing, there’s no way the flies just happened to be in there I mean hell something with this much thought put into doesn’t do much by accident

[@jax3636]

@@auden9540 They added a sound effect for the fly the first time it shows up so that it's practically impossible to miss

[@meris8486]

The point of Hughie not killing A-Train when he had the chance was he got over revenge. He'd stopped having anxiety attacks, his relationship with his father was better, he wasn't hallucinating Robin and Starlight was his new love. The issue is he doesn't have a moment where he goes from wanting A-Train dead to being indifferent about him which is a big change in his character that happens off-screen.

[@ETBrooD]

Meris We all love off-screen character arcs, they're the best. I totallay think every character arc should happen off-screen. There's nothing better because it demonstrates good writing, directing and editing. It's generally an amazing thing when creators put characters arcs in places where we can't see them happen. It's very good and we can all learn from that. Totallay.

[@StraussMax]

@@ETBrooD could you dial it down on the sarcasm a bit, please? my phone almost exploded and I haven't got money to replace it :(

[@meris8486]

@@ETBrooD haha yeah, agreed

[@Fangs1978]

I'm sorry, but what the hell are you talking about? Hughie is at no point "indifferent" about A-Train either off or on screen. He loved him right when the show started, then he hated him when he killed Robin and finally he realised he wasn't the hateful vengeful person that Butcher tried to turn him into and chose to save him. That moment of realization was sudden and happened on screen at the very same time he realize A-Train was actually dying.

[@Keykhosrau]

@@meris8486 It's sarcasm

[@mcili9161]

I don't necessarily agree that The Boys "did us dirty." I don't think the cliffhanger was the best, but it left me interested to see where season 2 goes. You gotta remember for every Lost, there's a Breaking Bad or Twin Peaks that beautifully masters the art of the cliffhanger. And Twin Peaks fans had to wait 25 years just to get a resolution after season 2, so I don't wanna hear shit about "having to wait" lol.

[@SynsityGW]

But that's the whole point. It's meant to bring you into season 2. And season 2 is meant to bring you into season 3. And so on. Truly great shows don't do this. They give you a great story and assume you will simply continue following because you trust there will be more good times to come. A show feeling the need to end on a cliffhanger is like a really insecure person, it's just extremely off-putting. You can just feel it dripping with desperation. In place of what would normally give you the good feelings, all you feel instead is like someone is trying to manipulate you.

[@battleupsaber462]

Me and The Boys about to do NitPix dirty

[@thatonecunt6722]

Fucking brilliant

[@equalskat]

Can I help

[@filipbabic4913]

Count me in

[@darkarspectrum]

I can help

[@freddiekruger3339]

... but the boys tells a complete three act story? Hughie's first act is wanting revenge, second act starts when he kills translucent, third act starts when he prioritizes his friends over revenge. Very obvious three act structure for our pov character (aka usually the protagonist) with a very clear story/moral. Revenge is good and all, be angry and don't just accept it like the collateral damage support group does, but also don't let yourself be blinded by it like Butcher is. Butcher's arc is left as a cliffhanger to ensure people will watch, but he is also clearly meant to end the season at his lowest point in contrast to Hughie. He made the wrong choice and so everything he wanted is denied and everything he thought was true turns out to be false. The afterlife imagery of him waking up isn't subtle, Butcher metaphorically dies without getting revenge by choosing to try and get revenge rather than save his friends.

[@fujifilm5127]

Ew. A Tau pfp. I would say fight me,but well...y'know. Melee

[@ItsButterBean1020]

Welcome to Nitpix who ignores the point

[@Armazillo]

Ya the nitpix boys are entitled little bishes who clearly watch a lot of tv and movies but still don't have an understanding of how to craft a story themselves

[@chrisyoung5089]

Agreed it started with Hughe wanting revenge and ending with Hughe seeing what that would turn him into = aka Butcher. Who was so blinded by his need for revenge he threw everything and everyone away. Just to find out everything he thought what happened to his wife was wrong. Loved the show and can't wait for more.

[@ostrider3500]

Freddie Kruger the series is going in a different direction than the comics did and the events of the comics are happening in a different order altogether or they’re cutting what happened out to make it a more streamlined and focused story. I dunno, I got sucked into the show but at the same time I was kind of let down with the lack of character development/ time spent getting attached to each character, and some of the subplots such as the home lander “mother” infatuation type deal, I dunno how to describe it.

[@reelseri0us629]

With your logic Breaking Bad should've sucked cause most of it's seasons ended on a MAJOR cliffhanger.

[@impatrice9030]

It didn't end on a cliffhanger. It ended on a boring episode with a half written script and decided to leave the rest of the episode till next season

[@SnakeBitten]

He didn’t say The Boys sucks tho

[@batfrat600]

I understand why he would be annoyed, I don't completely agree with his video. But the part where he talks about an ending to the season that didn't feel satisfying. Doesn't matter if there's going to be a season 2, season 1 should still leave you with satisfaction; just in case that was the only season it should stand on it's own. Like how both Gravity Falls Seasons 1 & 2 are a whole story, but you can just watch a season and still fell satisfied.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@batfrat600 I was very happy with the ending. What did people want to be different?

[@TH3LAST5TAND]

In the comics The relationship between hughie and Annie is supposed to be idyllic up until the reveal that she's a super hero and after butcher manipulates him and shows him her rape footage. Then hughie becomes insufferable and their relationship just collapses because he's Not sure how to process or empathize with her. By that point in the story, he's absorbed alot of butchers prejudices. Also mothers milk in the comic has way more to gain than lose because his family endured heavy loss from vaughts chemical waste, a huge oversight that the show should of touched on but is probably gonna change.

[@skinflutey]

TH3LAST5TAND I don’t get why the show felt the need to change so much.

[@jomarmandingiado9244]

Also the reason he's called mother's milk wont be able to fit in the show the dame way. Seems like compound v doesnt play the exact role it did in the comics. And yeah the annie hughie arc felt real quick to me.

[@FrancisR420]

They changed a lot of stuff for the sake of drama I personally wasn't very happy with their take on him killing his first supe In the comic it was a complete accident out of desperation Not because of PTSD or whatever. Not to mention stripping away all of butchers nuance where in issue 2 I believe it's revealed that he is friends with former supe love sausage and believes that at least once every blue moon they can get over themselves and switching him from a law adjacent to an outright vindictive criminal from the start but then also his reasons for becoming like that were stripped down to the point where it doesn't make sense like it does in the comic where he sees his wife die and knows for a fact it's because she was raped by homelander and is forced to beat a infant to death. in this one his wife just disappears after cheating on him. Why does she never contact her sister? speaking of homelander I feel like they removed a lot from his character whereas as in the comic he's a dick along with being evil which humanizes him and in this he's just perfect evil. also not sure what the point of the baby was in the show. also they keep referencing the dog without showing it outside of a flashback and I hope they don't kill it off The added a lot of fun interesting stuff but changed a lot unnecessarily

[@mysteryniggadel491]

@@skinflutey FR LIKE IT WAS COOL BUT THE FACT THAT THEY DONT KNOW ABOUT THE SERUM AND DONT HAVE POWERS ALREADY BAFFLES ME LIKE WHY BUT ALL THE CHANGES LEFT IT AT A C+ FOR ME

[@emmanuelperez1516]

@@skinflutey dude Its the same thing tv and movies always do, also I see why they had trouble adapting the idea that Mothers milk has to drink his moms milk and that she is currently a blob like boob monster

[@hellblazer8543]

lol, you were expecting the finale to be a series finale. wtf

[@wesleylafleur9147]

Bruh I actually have an alcoholic uncle Kieth, that was trippy

[@ChrisDynamo]

That's different though; he meant Keith, not "Kieth", which is a fucking retarded way of spelling the name (LaLoser).

[@yungrottz112]

Dude I literally just read this as he said it.....wtf is going on

[@wesleylafleur9147]

ZDProletariat I just told you how you can

[@ondrejsaska3201]

"Every good story ever written has three acts" Uh.

[@thats4thebirds]

This show perfectly represents my nightmare scenario: What if Disney made actual superheroes?

[@luiginastro8831]

Wait a few years

[@DrewLSsix]

“All good stories have three acts”. No, absolutely no that’s un true.

[@pleaserewind295]

Literally hundreds of movies do this. This video is one of his weakest yet. It comes across like he doesn't like cliffhangers. Then he tries to back this up with random nitpicking.

[@jordendarrett1725]

Thats what I wanted to say. There's the Four Act structure, the 7 Point Story Structure, even uncommon foreign structures like Kishotenketsu. 3 Act structure is just the only one it seems most prominent KZbinrs know, especially the ones that only watch movies. Nothing against NitPix, I like his taste. But the criticisms in this video are pretty weak

[@esinach]

@@jordendarrett1725 Highly agree with your assessment. Not liking an ending because of a cliffhanger is so cheap. Psychologically its like he wanted to see what happened so much he has to react in a bad way that he has to wait. Was I a bit annoyed it ended where it did? Kinda but not in a structural way I just really liked the show and wanted more. Season 2 has been green lit too so it's not like we aren't getting season 2. I am glad it's not Amazon though as Netflix would probably cancel it after 2 seasons. They have stuck with Mr Robot for 4 seasons which I'm pretty thankful for.

[@OdaKa]

@@jordendarrett1725 I mean technically Four Act and 7 Point all contain 3 acts within them...

[@corruptangel6793]

Yeah, It depends on the story.

[@ForeverWithlove]

I think your issue is a non-issue here. It was picked up for a second season before it even aired. So they went into the finale, knowing exactly where they're going. There's a bit of confidence here on Amazon's part that allows me to accept this ending, because I know season 2 will deliver. Now, if this shit was on Netflix, you'd have a legitimate worry about season 2 being cancelled or handed off to someone else to helm it. But The Boys is different. It sits well with me.

[@ChrisDynamo]

It's like he's never binge watched anything; they always flow into the next season. Besides, the conclusion of this season was clear; Butcher's mystery being unravelled, Hughie freeing himself of his toxic need for vengeance (and all of the negative things that it was doing to his life, to his relationships) and Homelander starting to find a real path in life, of his own creation for the very first time. Becoming a father, after being torn for so long about how damaging his upbringing was; a chance to give what he wasn't given, and provide him with some much wanted fulfillment. Also he became a true villain, creating superpowered foes to terrorise others for fun, publicity and keeping the company that he has a stake in free from governmental intervention, and finally slaughtering Elizabeth Shue and releasing himself from her control, overcoming the powerlessness he had before her for the entire season.

[@InexorableVideos]

“Me and the boys about to do the boys dirty” Oh boy.

[@tonythetony8438]

It’s based off a 70+ issue long comic book series, they obviously started with the Butcher and Homelander storyline and that goes till the end of the comic, you can’t wrap that up in one season unless that was the only focus. And I know it isn’t following the comics 100% especially after what happened at the end of the season but ehhh, I feel like it’s gonna end a lot like the comic.

[@HuskeyYT]

I wanted season 1 to be base on volume 1 and season 2 base on volume 2 and so on I have mix feeling about the boys TV show

[@corruptangel6793]

@@HuskeyYT i think they could've made 2 episodes for each volume of the comics. So season 1 (8 episodes) would be the first 4 volumes and season 2 and 3 with be the final 8 volumes. It would've been a great place to end season 1 too with how volume 4 ended. But i still love the show and think it's great in its own way. I definitely prefer this smaller version over the comics tbh. Focusing on The 7 helps make the supes feel more godly and the fight more personal. When they killed Transparent, it felt like they acomplished something incredible unlike the comics where supes are falling left and right. I also prefer how the show didn't make the Boys superhuman. Makes their struggle a lot more tense and desperate as the slightest mistake could, and very nearly did several times, get them killed. Though, I admit I've only finished the first 5 volumes of the comics so my feelings might change once I finish the rest.

[@alanpennie8013]

@@corruptangel6793 Agreed. They made some good adaptive changes. I do wonder how they're going to bring Butcher and Hughie back together in season 2. But then Starlight forgave Hughie very quickly so they'll probably handwave it again.

[@PurpleBadger]

Have you heard of a cliffhanger season finale? Season one isn't the story. It's the first act. Take any other Show, let's say Game of Thrones, Season One ends... Ned is dead, Robb is off to a reluctant war, Arya is escaping, Sansa is captured, Dany has lost everyone but has dragons. Bran's doing fucking nothing. They're all set ups. What you want is a neat closed-arc story all in one season. If a show did that with each individual season the overall narrative would suffer. Some shows do, but it's a preference thing as to whether you prefer that or not. This really isn't a 'The Boys' thing.

[@Awsmjames]

There's nothing wrong with a cliffhanger as long as there is some sort of finality with it. Even using your example, sure Game of Thrones season one left a lot of things up in air but Ned did die thus ending his story arc and setting up future stories. Imagine if instead the season just ended right before he was about to be killed and we had to wait until the next season to find out if he lives or dies and for the new stories to get going.

[@PurpleBadger]

​@@Awsmjames Y'mean like how Season 5 ended? It happens often. It can be really good for building up buzz around your franchise and theory-crafting. The same kind of goes for Movies. Last Jedi had a pretty decisive ending to the point there will be a time skip because, everything's wrapped up. Expectations subverted. But... No one cares. No one is theorycrafting, Star Wars is struggling... Infinity War ended with everyone vanishing and no fall out, no time to see where the characters were emotionally. Everyone was hyped for Endgame, though. It's not a case of the ending itself that causes a lack of momentum, it's simply how good the story writing is.

[@psychoboyjack285]

exactly what i thought, saying "oh this season sucked because it didn't give us any closer" it's just as stupid as saying that some episode sucked because it didn't give all the answers to the questions it raised. It's a series, not a movie. this argument actually got me thinking about the credibility of this channel. If someone creates a show where it discusses TV series and criticises them for being that, then why am i watching this?

[@pleaserewind295]

You are spitting fire.

[@SoicAngellis]

This is like what happens when heroes don't have supervillains, it feels. They become the villains

[@Wofulrumble4893]

Then the heros make the villains. Heros rise in the wake of villains is usually how it goes.

[@MissMillsonxx]

Man if you hate cliffhangers how did you survive the early 2000s when every season of any given show ended with one? Hughie had his 3 act story this season and Butcher should get more of one next season. I thought the gut punch ending was awesome and has me pumped for season 2. Also LOSTs ending was good.

[@tomroberts915]

Sounds more like you have an issue with cliff hangers

[@robb2999]

“Award commitment” the show is good and the characters are great, ya the ending may be anticlimactic, but the fact that show is good is enough of a reward

[@calemr]

"the core reason behind Butcher's entire life was a lie." That's an anti-climax to you?

[@alanpennie8013]

@@calemr I loved the ending. If I had a criticism it was that the antithetical/parallel arcs for Butcher and Hughie were a little too pat. But TV is not a subtle medium.

[@stilekropfilms6610]

“His girlfriend was run over by a train.... ATrain....” I cant😂

[@PomaiKajiyama]

Wow...it's like you've never heard of cliffhanger endings...

[@The_Notorious_N.O.E.]

So your problem is that a great show has an amazing cliffhanger? Boo hoo 😭

[@alanpennie8013]

Cliffhanger? My main worry was that they hadn't really set up much for the second season. If the show had ended with that final episode I'd have been pretty happy. Though of course I'll come back for season 2.

[@justanotherblackwhitemicke7817]

Here from the future, Im glad season 2 had a proper ending, even if the continue the series or not, it had a well closure

[@ZB3003]

Its not meant to have finality, its the first season of a tv show. I think we just haven't had cliffhangers in so long so we immediately call it cheap or shit.

[@kettchuk918]

The lack of standard finality is the best thing about the ending. Instead of the everything is fine apart from one cliff hanger that so many, many series (and film) things have all gone to shit for everyone, more shit has happened and a lot of questions about where we are and what the hell will happen next are left dangling.

[@gregdesouza17]

Butcher is the closest thing to Hellblazer's Constantine I've seen on a Screen

[@fabooshka]

Keanu "Big Wick" Energy Reeves and Matt Ryan: Are we a joke to you?

[@cayranm]

@@fabooshka Yeah, they're both not good adaptations

[@stingfan4]

@@cayranm How is Matt Ryans Constantine bad exactly?

[@Dogmelter42]

I doubt a major studio would allow that level of chainsmoking, bloody satire these days.

[@cayranm]

James Davidson not so much with him personally, he’s great, more the adaptation of the character and his world as written

[@Crazelord91]

When you talk about how they made the characters more likable and robust than the typical action story protagonists is probably why The Boys is such a great adaptation of the comic even though so much has changed. Bc Garth Ennis is a master of taking the typical hero and making them funny and emotionally deep. And the show being true to that character ideal was essential. All the major counterparts in the comic are similar in thay regard (with a few exceptions like A Train), and even more intriguing in a lot of ways than the show; which makes them a bit more realistic for tv audiences as opposed to more over the top in the comic is that for comic audience sensibilities

[@stingfan4]

I thought Black Noir looked more like Snake Eyes from G.I. Joe!

[@Warsteel55]

Lmao I literally yelled "snake eyes!" To my buddy when black noir was first shown

[@filipbabic4913]

Holy shit I just noticed XD

[@TbYolo]

I think Black Noir is Kimiko’s brother he seems like a Ninja and he doesn’t talk like Kimiko I know Black Noir is a Homelander Clone but i think the Show will go a Different Route

[@jkclark5204]

American shows HATE to end their stories, generally. It's sacrificing satisfying storytelling for continued financial success. God forbid things just end. Respect to British shows that tell stories with beginning, middles, and ends.

[@RaviBMaharaj]

It ended on a cliffhanger. That's great

[@TheSkaRred1]

I liked your video but damn why'd you have to spoil other shows that I haven't watched?

[@Grenandeman]

Translucent is one of The Seven too even though he doesn't have an apparent JL parallel.

[@blupunk01]

He replaced Jack from Jupiter from the comic who was an expy of the Martian Manhunter. They both have the impenetrable skin, but Translucent has the Manhunter's invisibility which Jack didn't.

[@corbans5796]

He replaced violet from the justice league

[@ItsButterBean1020]

Plastic Man

[@Susanoo7108]

@@blupunk01 Ah, that makes sense. I've been trying to draw a comparison for Translucent for ages. Lamplighter would be Green Lantern. Cool, cheers

[@mosamaster]

Martian can turn invisible

[@RyanSpringer1984]

I was getting tired of the superhero genre and then came along The Boys. *I loved it!*

[@avidgamer5676]

Well i just watched 15mins of this and whilst i was watching i thought non of this felt to bad because i was hopeful that the episode was leading to a conclusion of some type, a type of satisfying resolution... I was hoping it to feel worth it, i was hoping it was building up to something .... Nope. I enjoyed the end of the boy's and totally will watch season 2 regardless of the "non lack" of structure which it totally had.

[@fredrickbanks1966]

“Television favorites” *proceeds to see lapis lazuli and flame princess in a poorly drawn, smutty drawing* Yup

[@Dameyification]

So basically The viewer: we need more Amazon prime: sir, phase 1 is complete

[@cecilia7932]

That's why I love The 100 so much. Every season has a sort of contained story which wraps up nicely at the end, while maintaining an overarching narrative and character developments. It also somehow gets better with every season

[@baktaful]

Thank you for spoiling Killing Eve, lol.

[@esinach]

I was glad he did tbh. That show has been hyped so much now it would never live up to the hype at this point.

[@cosmancho2959]

@@esinach Season 1 was good but the lesbian tension feels so forced and the main character is fugly.

[@TbYolo]

Esinach Fuck off the Show is good and Hyped up for a reason

[@alexanderforbes1452]

Cliffhangers are annoying to me in general, so yeah, I was a little annoyed when it ended like that. I just don't think they really work in the age of the internet.

[@Icagel0]

I don't mind a cliffhanger or open end in general, but this show did annoy me to hell with how it left every single thing open. Don't resolve everything, fine, but at least give us something, any kind of payoff

[@TheRockerX]

@@Icagel0 I feel like the Homelander reveal at the end meets the criteria of "any kind of payoff"

[@Armazillo]

You dont like cliffhangers hecauee youre a baby and a child

[@alexanderforbes1452]

@@Armazillo Whatever you say, big guy.

[@reidcacaro2919]

I wish he would come back to recover this material with the context of season 2&3

[@marcespinoza6068]

Watching that girl get liquified by A-Train was one of the coolest things ever in a superhero show or movie. I wonder how many random people Reverse Flash has done that to?

[@Rebe8d89AH]

I agree with your thoughts on the ending. I was kind of left saying, 'oh'. I mean, season 2 is confirmed for next summer but still...

[@DarranKern]

itsoutside43 there’s nothing wrong with the ending. Why are people dumb?

[@Rebe8d89AH]

@@DarranKern You can like the ending. (If you can call it that). I just don't.

[@DarranKern]

itsoutside43 its not an ending. Its a season finale. How does everyone keep getting everything wrong? I’m not claiming to be a big brain rick and morty fan. You’re just wrong

[@Rebe8d89AH]

@@DarranKern It's the ending of the season. And it chose to leave a lot of loose threads. I worry that the momentum of the show will suffer as a result.

[@DarranKern]

Luigi Nastro There’s a difference between objective facts and an opinion. If you hate cliffhanger season finales, you hate 99% of all television shows in existence. You’re just dumb. Sorry.

[@burritosforlater]

Good thing season 2 was fucking amazing!!!

[@fredrickbanks1966]

Literary just got an ad for the boys before this video started. Talk about some bad boys amiritelads?

[@trippingkanga134]

Nice

[@TheRockerX]

Use adblock, ya noob

[@TheChugg11]

Very literary!

[@dale85311]

Enjoyed the season greatly but absolutely agree I was expecting more instead of that half beat cliffhanger

[@jamiefinn4438]

I completely agree, in fact this is exactly what I said to my brother after watching it and him asking if it was worth it "yeah it's really good, but there's no real conclusion and they're just playing a season two." this is a trend shows should stop. Peaky blinders did it with their most recent season. The conclusion was a fake out and thus the bad guy is still alive and we have to see the next season. You can look at this two ways, and it's up to you how you like it. LOTR was shot as 3 films, each with structure of a regular film, but are really part of the same story. You can't watch the second one if you haven't seen the first. The same plays for the boys and the next season if peaky blinders. Or you can look at something like how to train a dragon trilogy. Each is their own, but you don't really need to know too much about the first one to enjoy the second. This is more in the vain if peaky blinders earlier seasons. Like season 4 was essentially completely self contained taking the show back to small heath and all you needed to know was changretta had grace killed, Tommy had changretta killed and now luca changretta is after them. That's about it. And at the end of the season we have a satisfactory conclusion with our big bad dying and our characters coming together and moving along their arcs. This formula is predictable after 4 seasons so it's good tommy doesn't get his way abd our big bad might just be better than him. However as a first season to leave us with no satisfactory ending, no cathartic release and no real on edge cliff hanger wtf is the point of ending the season. Nut the fuck up and make a season with 16 episodes if season one and two are the exact same story.

[@bujinkanatori]

Best series of the year... I mean, second best after expanse. Hands down.

[@dylanmcla]

I've never heard someone get this upset over a cliffhanger and then decide to call it a "non-ending"

[@ttmetalman88]

Well to be fair....A-Trains life has become a wreck after killing robin accidently. > He was caught on camera laughing about it lead hughie to go overboard. > His drug addiction is exposed leading him to be off his game because of it. > His Girlfriend popclaw gets caught in it all due to his lies. > This leads to him killing her to cover up what ever mess he could clean up. > His own brother finds out about A-train being back on the compound V leading to a break up of the brothers. > The Female which is part of his mess is on the loose and he failed to deal with her. > The compound V is killing him with an overdose. > When he was injured and kicked off with the security guard in the store, He did some harm to his public image. > And the whole time this is going on Homelander is breathing down his neck. And the final insult of being saved by the guy who's girl he killed. Sometimes there are things worse than death.

[@Deondre_Clark]

The choice to end without a "satisfying" ending is completely true to the show. Every single superhero movie has the same structure. The hero has some dark moment but then saves the day just in time for some mid credit scenes. Leaving this open ended, not knowing where this is going or if The Boys are going to succeed is kind of how life works. I like the throw back to a cliffhanger. We don't need to be spoon fed a happy ending every fucking time.

[@kingpatrick1265]

Nonending... Oh you mean a cliffhanger something to keep you waiting and wanting a season 2

[@vindurverndari]

I read this excellent article by Gerry Canavan about the MCU that speaks to a universal problem with media that refuses to craft a complete narrative:”The only logic that finally governs significance in the MCU - the only guideline we have to tell us which events ‘actually matter’ and which don’t - is entirely extra-textual: whose contracts are up, and whose sequels have been green-lit.... MCU films are not about characters, choices, consequences; they are only ever about the permanent extension of the MCU itself as a franchise. Why does supervillain Thanos attack Earth? Because the post-credit sequence of The Avengers (2012) said he would. Why does he attack Earth now? Because the contracts of the original cast are nearly up. Why can’t the good guys stop him? Because there’s a sequel already in production.“

[@lexiconwaffle]

I'd say Umbrella Academy left me feeling that the series was cut off early, more than The Boys. It was some cheesy "Here we go again", with barely anything tied up. There was no pay off to making it through to the last episode. There's a measure of being spoiled to "I loved it up to the end, but there wasn't enough, so it's ruined". I'd rather appreciate that there is a series out there that entertains me without forcing a hook. The Boys ended in a way that makes me want to continue the story. It didn't feel manufactured, or forced, like one of those scenes that get immediately resolved in the first episode of the next season. We're hurtling toward the deathly MacGuffin! (Season two ends). (Season three begins) "I flipped the don't die switch, on with the plot!"

[@inferno0020]

The boys is not a superhero show; it is not a show about superheroes either. It is a show about the media industry

[@anubusx]

A lot of people don't get that.

[@WyattoonsComics]

Non-endings can be especially frustrating because we can see good examples in other shows and even film franchises. There’s a way to have a fulfilling finale while still setting up stuff for future stories. The narrative can come to an end while still having loose ends to tie up later.

[@notyournigga]

You have such a pleasant voice, Could you do my eulogy?

[@jamstonjulian6947]

You won't be able to hear it...

[@wytzeputker1237]

You should get bojack

[@jamesstewart7736]

@Luigi Nastro this reply deserves 1,000 bonus legendary points. I love it! 😂😂😂😂👌👌👌👏👏👏

[@jamesstewart7736]

If you like this voice you would also enjoy Atomic Shrimp and Cynical Reviews and Arthur TV. 😉

[@His0ka]

Mh this time I must say. ..you are really impatient. Just wait another year. .you act like its your first show you ever watched. .seasons always end on cliffhangers. .you act like its something totaly new. .if you dont want that just do it like me with breaking bad...wait till all episodes are released. .Yeah but the prisoncell really was a joke. .i give you that

[@harrycannon3927]

This felt like Nitpix saying "The show had no ending, therefore bad (or has flaws)". I would agree but they announced season 2 before the 1st season started so we know there's going to be more.

[@stevenbaker153]

Ending a TV series on a cliffhanger is a very common trope. Just because it wasn't the ending you expected doesn't make it bad. I get that cliffhangers can be annoying but I loved how it ended and what the possibilities are for dramatic narrative for the next season. The only thing I'm frustrated with is having to wait another year to see what happens. Also it means that character arcs can play out over several seasons. We have become used to binging shows like movies. One season = one movie. Just because this show decided to stick to more traditional tv tropes isn't a bad thing

[@luiginastro8831]

You kinda missed the whole point of Hughie not killing A-Train.

[@leon3295]

The boys is a masterpiece.

[@EthansSpace]

I started your video 12 hours ago then watched the whole show then came back to the spoiler part

[@sheikhsuleiman9208]

OMG i did the same xD

[@Cheesusful]

Personally i think the reason he singled out homelander as "being clean" was to show he had no way to get to him, there's no weakness to exploit, which leads up to the finale where he thinks he has found that weakness...

[@snowyalice]

I saw the trailer for The Boys that day it came out. So I started watching it at 11pm at night. And then didn't stop until I had finished and the sun was coming up. The cliffhanger basically means that The Boys is constantly on my mind every single day.

[@Chiefofbricks]

I actually love how it ends! I'm sick of endings where everything goes right, I love how I dont know where the show is going to go next.

[@RealLukeWilson]

In terms of Hughie not killing A-Train after shattering his leg, I look at it like this: What’s the better revenge? Killing someone, or ruining someone’s entire purpose in life by irreparably injuring them?? At that point he’s learned how cruel and cutthroat Vaught is-killing A-Train would make him a martyr, but taking away his superpower would mean a lifetime of shame and scandal.

[@zztopz7090]

Hughie's character arc was ftinished. And every season of any show ends on a cliffhanger. Im looking forward to season 2.

[@dirrdevil]

I couldn't agree more. You can end a season on a victory or a loss. But the show just feels like it ran out of episodes rather than coming to a natural conclusion. Obviously, the show will continue, but if each season of a tv show is like a chapter in a book, it feels more like stopping mid-chapter. They could have stopped earlier or gone farther. And honestly, maybe a condensed mini-series would have worked better. I have been wondering what any of the characters really want to do for the last half of the season.

[@MysteryHandle76]

Most shows end their seasons on a cliffhanger. This isn't some new concept using Killing Eve as one example, when there's tones of examples of cliffhangers that are good. I love this channel but fuck this is some YMS level of contrarian nit picking

[@swarlly]

I usually hate no pay off intermission season finales. But this one in The Boys kind of worked. It fit in with the theme when the boys kept making progress in their plan to take down the 7 through each success it really got them nowhere.

[@dmonvisigoth1651]

I thoroughly enjoyed the 3 seasons of The Boys currently available and, as rarely as I say this, I found it more entertaining and gripping than the source material. Both have their strong and weak points, but insofar as adaptations of comic books go, the creators altered and adapted things in such a way as to make it translate better to the medium of (bingeable) television. My biggest qualm: Simon Pegg wasn't Wee Hughie. But it was cool that he was still in the show as his father. We even got a Jings!

[@Add183]

With that logic infinity war sucked. It ended on a huge cliffhanger

[@LPTV84]

This is like starting the entire Star Wars franchise on Empire Strikes Back. Yes, it's the best in the original trilogy, but it ended on a bittersweet note so as to differentiate from the happier note of New Hope's finale. The Boys is a dark/grey themed show, but I think a first season of any series should leave people wanting to seeing some kind of fullfilled note with successes and failures. As well as a thread or two left ambiguous or unresolved to keep the audience wondering about what's next. A peak before a valley, and breaking that tradition, isn't revolutionary. Just very risky and the payoff may or may not workout in the end.

[@aod4496]

It's called a cliffhanger! one of the most common ways to end a season until very recently and a genre staple of comic books... Sure a bit old school but I think it's refreshing not to have everything all wrapped up in a little bow. Earlier seasons of GOT are great example of how cliffhangers can work, if the writing is any good these tensions will be resolved in S02.

[@caad5258]

Agreed, the Boys should have had a better finale. That reveal for Butcher was a punch to the gut though!

[@alexandriekitty725]

Ca Ad May have been a punch to the gut, but destroys his character. In the comic, Butcher's wife dies in front of him with only a super baby left. He then only finds out his wife was raped by Homelander by reading her diary. That fuels his blind hatred towards all supes. In the show it is ambiguous if she was raped (based on the footage), and the wife isn't dead. This twist ruined his character.

[@mcfry13]

@@alexandriekitty725 maybe not. Season 2 could really do something interesting with this change. It could destory his character or make him even better. Wait until its all out before you declare gloom and doom

[@brucewayne236]

Superman and Captain America rolled up into one psychopath. That's the most accurate description for Homelander!

[@lordhuntington5704]

I think it's good that they endet it with a cliffhanger like that, because the second seasons production started immediantly after the end of the first ones and will probably released in the late 2019 or early 2020 so we have enough time to concider problems, issues and mysteries that the show gave us and have the conclusion right about when the Show is comletely out of our heads.

[@helenarosno]

I saw a trailer for The Boys and I didn’t read much about the show when I went into it, but I thought Annie would be the protagonist? It’s stupid now that I think about the title. But I also felt unsatisfied with the ending of the first season. I’d be ok with a cliff hanger, but they just stopped dead in the middle of the story which was weird. Other than that I thought it was really good and hit almost all the marks

[@rorschach5510]

you do know that this season 1 right? season 2 is coming.

[@kylehagertybanana]

Just keep paying us and we’ll eventually give you an ending to the thing youve invested in

[@kurobinson9158]

Woah the background music is wet dreams and super fast jellyfish!! That’s the whole thing I’ll take out of this video. I’ll watch the show now

[@Top3Productions]

One difference... You already know what the whole story is going to be. Since you know, it is a comic that already ended!

[@captainawesomous3105]

I get where you’re coming from, but good news, season 2 has already started filming so I don’t think there’s gonna be a season 2 that doesn’t feel right, since it’s probably gonna have the same show runners and hopefully same writers, but just because it started filming doesn’t mean it still can’t be bad, I’m just hoping they make a really good second season, but one can hope, right?

[@dozyproductionss]

That "non ending" was great. They did a good job building the desperation and you really do feel for butch in those last minutes. They did a good job with building anticipation so I can't wait for how it's going to pick up in season 2. Your video was super nit picky.

[@mosamaster]

Butcher was trying to pin down homelander with something and could not find a thing to label him "dirty". So he says that Homelander is the one with a "clean" record. It takes time for him to even find his weakness. In the end of season one Butcher ends up as the real A-hole who took many innocent lives for a unfaithful wife.

[@vicaldama9314]

Marshall Law didn't leave one hanging!

[@blupunk01]

I actually thought the ending was spot on. It was a huge reveal that shattered the reality within which Butcher and The Boys have been living and set things up for big changes in the second season. I thought it was framed beautifully, and I could picture it as a big comic panel. Just because you binge a TV series like you're watching an 8-hour movie doesn't mean it's obliged to be structured with a clear resolution as though it were actually a movie. I actually prefer something more ambiguous that leaves the future more uncertain. Think of how many seasons of some great series like Breaking Bad ended seasons like that.

[@psychoboyjack285]

i didn't get that either "The Boys didn't give us any closure"... it's the end of a Season, not the series. It's like complaining that the first season of Game of Thrones was shit because now we don't know what will happen with the Stark kids, or the end of the first season of Breaking Bad because they didn't say if he was going to be a drug lord or not and survive cancer. It didn't even end yet, why is he complaining about the season finishing without any closure? and at the end he excuses this argument with "we don't even know if the 2nd season will be good"... WHAT. THE. FUCK.

[@AbelDuviant]

It may have done is dirty with the end (which it really did, it did NOT feel like the end of a season- it should've spent a little more time wrapping at least some things up) I do NOT regret watching this show, and it was a bloody fantastic experience. The ending just felt like a fantastic cliffhanger but at the exact wrong moment, making me wish I waited until season 2 to binge this show

[@the_real_rascal]

The season felt like it was unfinished. Like they found out they were losing funding so they slapped together a season finale. Hopefully season 2 is better.

[@krimlon1st]

I would also have to say this should have been 16 episodes not 8.

[@Icagel0]

Or 12, I feel that would've been enough

[@esinach]

The more episodes you get the less quality each ep will be. It'll lose the pace it has/the FX wont be as good. More time spent making and probably not enough budget for 12. The fact it left you wanting more tells me it's done it's job.

[@Icagel0]

@@esinach not exactly. Most of us signed up to see a story, not half a story, so it dropping in the middle of nowhere feels cheated. While I enjoyed most of it, I wouldn't feel confident recommending it to anyone since I know they'll end up facing disappointment. If you take into account budget, fine, but then there are other elements that could`ve been dropped to make room for it and just displays poor planning ahead. There's no excuse in this day and age for misexecutions like this.

[@calemr]

Like... A second season or something? The thing they're doing?

[@DigitomProductions]

Butcher saying Homelander is a saint was purely just for the "Gotcha!" moment when Homelander lights up the airplane at the end of the episode. It's also why Homelander, unlike the books, did not commit the sexual assault on Starlight. He also seems like a good guy at the supe meetings. It was all for a cheap writing hook which was kind of annoying. Butcher saying that line makes absolutely no sense, especially the way he says it.

[@AdThe1st]

Nice to see someone point out the bad and great in something with equal passion

[@Gurbo8]

I could not disagree more. It's how RedLetterMedia said it: I'm so used to seasons standing on their own nowadays, that I almost forgot that seasons used to end on cliffhangers. I think it's a very bold move, because I want to know how the story continues. If this season didn't end with a cliffhanger/open ending, I might not have wanted to see season two, and now I'm insanely hyped for it.

[@Szellah7]

The way I see it is that Butcher keeps a close eye on Homelander and thus he knows that he never does anything questionable, other than probably some murder. He belives that Homelander raped his wife, but at that moment he didn't know If he can trust Huhgie, therefore he didn't want to share this info with him.

[@blkarcher77]

Real shit man, I felt so fucking blue balled from that ending, because it wasn't an ending. That should have been, at most, the second last episode of the season

[@dondoesdoodles9726]

This is a bad standard for modern story telling all spiraling back to J.J. Abrams bullshit "Mystery Box" idea. If you keep building up the tension over and over, season to season, people will keep coming back to watch - That's the theory at least. Hasn't really panned out yet as every show/movie/game/comic I can think of that does this now lives in infamy for being the current "worst finale ever". :EDIT: I kinda forgot that Marvel Dodged this with Endgame is kinda the reason everything else is being judged so harshly. But this only really works if you tap out of the MCU at Endgame [like I did].

[@DarranKern]

Northern Perspective wtf are you talking about? Absolutely none of the story resembles a JJ Abrams cliffhanger addict mystery box show

[@dondoesdoodles9726]

@@DarranKern Why did Becca really leave Billy, is it simply because she was pregnant with Homelander's Son? Why did Homelander hide his son if he's got superpowers? If superpowers can be passed down how are their so few heroes? How much control do the seven have over society as whole if they can keep their family life secret? If Billy really does hate Homelander why did he defend him when talking to Hughie? Why would Hughie spare A-Train if it's his sole motivation for joining the boys? [I know this one was answered later but it was a serious question for that episode] What happened with the prison break? Who actually got out? What happened to the ones that didn't? Why did Mother's Milk initially leave the Boys? This shit goes on and on and I know it's meant to keep me on pins and needles for the second season but I'm just so sick of this tactic of not telling a full story that I won't be coming back.

[@fecal_position6412]

@@dondoesdoodles9726 the idea that an ending like this will keep people on pins and needles for an entire year is a horrifically stupid strategy. I really wish it would stop too.