“The Boys”: ‘Top 10’ Most Indelible Scenes

Spoiler Alert  * * * Spoiler Alert  * * * Spoiler Alert  * * * 

I have a dark theory about why Amazon Prime’s super hero send-up, “The Boys,” is such a smash hit: its indelible imagery is so shocking — either violent, carnal . . . or simultaneously both(!) — that it supplants,** if only briefly, the shock and recoil everyone is seemingly experiencing every day now.

Make that, “every minute of every hour of every day.”

Thanks primarily to a certain increasingly unpopular, incumbent President.

No more political posts, at least this weekend (promise).

Instead, I dare you to consider the following unforgettable scenes, then try to think of anything else for awhile.

Go ahead!

I dare you! (MAJOR spoiler alert: Do NOT continue until you’ve completed episode #8 of Season 2).

Scene #10. Exploding Head #1 (“#%$&?!?”)

Scene #9. Exploding Head #4 (“OK . . . I guess this officially is a thing“).

Scene #8. Exploding Whale (detect a theme??).

Scene #7. Storm Front in extremis, mumbling in German.

Scene #6. Homelander – Storm Front Foreplay #1 (see, “Homicide – Crushed Head”).

Scene #5. Homelander – Storm Front Foreplay #2 (“some like it hot rough”).

Scene #4. “May I Hold Your . . . ‘Hands?!?” (Hughie’s first . . . uhh meeting with A-Train).

Scene #3. Madelyn Stillwell’s demise.

Scene #2. Homelander – Storm Front “Levitating Embrace.”

Scene #1 (tie): “Homelander and Queen Maeve Watch Doomed Plane Spiral Down”; and “Homelander …. umm, Enjoys the View Above Manhattan, Against a Stunning Harvest Moon.”

**Psychologists call this phenomenon “displacement.”

P.S.: At least in my estimation, “The Boys” is the first worthy successor to “Breaking Bad.”

And based on the above, its show runner, Eric Kripke, has an even more diabolical, demented imagination than “Breaking Bad” show runner Vince Gilligan.

Just to cement the link between the two shows, Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring of “Los Pollos Hermanos”) plays another Uber-smooth bad guy in “The Boys.” 

See also, “Homelander in “The Boys”: a Superhero’s Super Powers — and Surprising Lack Thereof.”



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