Geekery: ‘The Boys’ Are Back – First Trailer Looks Fantastically Inappropriate
The fist trailer opens with Homelander with a face full of blood spatter and gets messier and more awesome from there.
The series (from the same folks that brought Garth Ennis’ Preacher to the small screen) tackles the often gross, always violent, and delightfully crude story of a squad of vigilantes (occasionally backed by the CIA) known as The Boys. Their goal is to put the superheroes of their world – who are corrupted by fame and power – back in their respective places and stop the corrupt corporation behind them. If you haven’t watched season one, do so now. Click here. Right now.
The trailer is light on story, but it shows that we’ll be getting more hyperviolence and inappropriate humor. As it should be. The first season was on of those rare instances of a screen adaptation improving on the source material. The script reigns in Garth Ennis’ comic in just the right amount and makes it better. I’m totally on board for as many seasons as we can get out of Amazon.
The cast is returning – including Karl Urban as Billy Butcher with Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother’s Milk, Tomer Capon as the Frenchman, Karen Fukuhara as the Female of the Species, Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, Erin Moriarty as Starlight, and Antony Starr as Homelander.
The Boys season two drops at some point next year.
