The Boys TV series - Karl Urban cast as Butcher

[Tiplodocus]

Amazon also make The Marvelous Miss Maisel, which is great as long as you don't look up the politics of its barmy creator - though I imagine if you were worried about politics you wouldn't be using Amazon in the first place.

I can't  watch it without thinking "Is this anti-Semitic? I just don't know."

[Woolly]

Amazon also make The Marvelous Miss Maisel, which is great as long as you don't look up the politics of its barmy creator - though I imagine if you were worried about politics you wouldn't be using Amazon in the first place.

I can't  watch it without thinking "Is this anti-Semitic? I just don't know."

I can't watch it without thinking "why isn't this about her manager instead?"
Getting a little sick of following the stories of rich, 'good looking' types.

[Link Prime]

Binged the relatively short season 1 this week and absolutely loved it.

Spot on casting for most roles.
Elisabeth Shue knocking it out of the park, and Antony Starr somehow improving after an impressive 4 seasons of Banshee.

Just think what they could have done with the budget if they didn't have to dye Urban's beard with liquefied obsidian.

[rogue69]

Season 2 comes out on the 4th September with the first 3 episodes then it's one a week for the rest of the season

[JayzusB.Christ]

I'll watch the fecker, and like Tordelback, I enjoyed the comic, despite the nastiness and offensiveness.  But I can't help thinking that the TV series has taken away the driving forces behind some of its main characters; ie. Hughie has kind-of-forgiven A-Train already, and Butcher's missus isn't dead.  Also, Starlight doesn't have to hide her superness from Hughie, as everyone knew about it from the start.

I wonder when Crossed will be on telly?

[IndigoPrime]

I’d argue it just has different driving forces. Frankly, I found the comic abhorrent for the most part. The TV show for me was pretty smart about what to keep, what to change, and what to ditch entirely.

[JayzusB.Christ]

I’d argue it just has different driving forces. Frankly, I found the comic abhorrent for the most part. The TV show for me was pretty smart about what to keep, what to change, and what to ditch entirely.

Fair enough. I'll wait and see how things progress.  I gave up on the Preacher series but hopefully this will stay interesting.

[Richard]

I've just watched the first episode, and thought it was brilliant. Exactly what I hoped it would be. All the cast are superb, and it was a nice touch that they gave Simon Pegg a cameo as Hughie's dad.

[BPP]

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That AI from sin/dex has taken over the forum. How meta!

[IndigoPrime]

Just a warning to all—please refrain from quoting and responding to porn threads. The latter requires clean-up. The former might result in your account being accidentally deleted if, say, an admin is on early morning autopilot and trying to blaze through forum clean-up. (Fortunately, I check email addresses and BPP had a proper one!)

[JayzusB.Christ]

Caught the first episode of the second series last night.  Great stuff; I'd forgotten how much fun it was.  I am doing my best to ignore Karl's cockwi accent; it's not easy though.  Joe Gilgun's 'Dublin' one was just intolerable.

But all in all, The Boys is firing on all cylinders.  It's different from the comic, but who cares?  Keeps it interesting when I don't know the outcome.

[Mardroid]

Wait 'til you see episode 3.... 😲

It's good if somewhat shocking.

[JayzusB.Christ]

Wait 'til you see episode 3.... 😲

It's good if somewhat shocking.

Did you mean the whale death?  Pure Garth Ennis, even though it wasn't in the comics - sadly it was shown on one of the trailers.  Wish they wouldn't spoil scenes like that.

[Smith]

They stole that bit from Family Guy.

[Mardroid]

Wait 'til you see episode 3.... 😲

It's good if somewhat shocking.

Did you mean the whale death?  Pure Garth Ennis, even though it wasn't in the comics - sadly it was shown on one of the trailers.  Wish they wouldn't spoil scenes like that.

I was referring more to what happened with Stormfront at the end. She comes across earlier on as quite an amusing, irreverant, rather likable character. Then she shows her true colours at the end. The fact she'd turn out to be a bad 'un, was spoiled for me somewhat online, but the way it played out was very shocking.

The whale thing was as well, mind you, although it's an ongoing gag with that particular character. They had to take it that little bit further with the heartbeat sounds inside the animal, though, didn't they? 😨😝