Amazon Prime's The Boys' rattling cynicism about the human propensity for greed and deception (especially when those humans are "special") is balanced by the series' crackling humor and cockeyed proposition that "normal," clear-eyed folks who give a damn can indeed save the world.
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Monday, August 5, 2019
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