Avengers: Endgame is the highest-grossing movie internationally. Everywhere you turn, there is a Superhero image in plain sight. What would happen if Superheroes were real? Instead of being fictional characters in entertainment, the real versions of them are starring in movies about them. That is the basic premise of The Boys that is streaming now on Amazon.
There are seven of them who are revered by the world. However, if you knew them, then you might have a completely different opinion of them. They are human and they are dysfunctional.
Huey (Jack Quaid) is a normal guy who envies them like everyone else. That is until A-Train (Jessie Usher), the fastest man on Earth, smashes into his girlfriend, totally obliterating her. Now, he wants revenge on the Seven.
He won’t be alone. Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) hates them even more than Huey. Butcher recruits Huey to join his group whose mission is to destroy all of the Seven. By the end of the first episode, they will have their first victim.
A-Train has no regrets for killing Huey’s girlfriend. In fact, she is not the first and won’t be the last. A-Train is a flawed human, but not as much as Homelander (Antony Starr). He let the fame go to head. His is more about helping himself than anyone else. He will do anything to look good, including let people die. He is like Trump.
Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) is over it all. It is novel at first, but now she is done with all. Unlike Starlight (Erin Moriarty) who is the newest member. She is thrilled about joining the Seven. Although she will not follow all the rules and that will get her in trouble.
Chace Crawford is the good looking one, and he uses his looks to get the ladies. That will get him in trouble because he is a pre-#MeToo type of guy. Finally, there is Translucent (Alex Hassell) who can make himself invisible. There is a great scene where he gets into a fight with someone. I never thought I would enjoy watching someone fight with an invisible person, but I love it!
In the 8 episodes, it is good vs bad. But who is who? You will just have to tune in to see. I am so over the goody-two-shoes superheroes. I like when they are living like real people on shows like this and Doom Patrol. Forget Justice League and Avengers, give me more of The Boys! Which was already picked up for a second season.
BTW can we all talk about how amazing Elisabeth Shue looks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pxFD9q9yJE&feature=youtu.be Carnival Row does not debut until August 30th, but Amazon isn’t waiting until then to pick it up for a second season. They announced today that the show where monsters are real, deserves more episodes, so they gave it to them.
What is the show that stars Orlando Bloom and Cara Delevingne about? “Carnival Row, a series set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to live, love, or fly with freedom. But even in darkness, hope lives, as a human detective, Rycroft Philostrate (Bloom), and a refugee faerie named Vignette Stonemoss (Delevingne) rekindle a dangerous affair despite an increasingly intolerant society. Vignette harbors a secret that endangers Philo’s world during his most important case yet: a string of gruesome murders threatening the uneasy peace of the Row.”
It looks like it is going to fill that dragon-sized hole that Game of Thrones left for so many.
Castle’s Stania Katic is back with a new series on Amazon Prime and Absentia is a thrilling ride that constantly leaves you guessing what will happen next.
FBI agent Emily Byrne went missing 6 years ago and it is believe she was murdered by a serial killer she was investigating. He was found and sentenced for her murder, but then one day her her husband, Special Agent Nick Durand (Patrick Heusinger) gets a phone call that changes everything. The man in prison for his wife’s murder, says she is still alive. Not only that, he tells her where to find out.
Durand runs out to find her, and he does. Now the woman he thought was dead, is alive. How does he explain this to his new wife, Alice (Cara Theobold) and the son he had with Emily. Flynn (Patrick McAuley) was just a baby when his mom disappeared and he does not know her. He thinks of Alice as him mom and he does not want accept Emily as the woman who gave birth to him. Alice also does not want Emily around and does not trust her with Flynn.
If that was enough for Emily and Nick to handle, then how about now they have to find out who really kidnapped her. The man, who is in prison for her murder, might not have done it. That is because right before she was found, another body, fitting his MO, washes up and they are newly dead. On top of that, people around her start dying. She will be blamed for their murders. Is she innocent or guilty? What happened to her when she was held captive and why cannot remember anything from those 7 years?
These are just a few of the many questions you will want to know when you binge the 10 episodes of the suspenseful series that are available to stream now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EsXMS1YfYs
Over the last few weeks, Jeffrey Tambor has been accused of sexual harassment twice on the set of Transparent. Today, he announced that he is leaving the show that won him two Emmys.
Playing Maura Pfefferman on Transparent has been one of the greatest privileges and creative experiences of my life. What has become clear over the past weeks, however, is that this is no longer the job I signed up for four years ago. I’ve already made clear my deep regret if any action of mine was ever misinterpreted by anyone as being aggressive, but the idea that I would deliberately harass anyone is simply and utterly untrue. Given the politicized atmosphere that seems to have afflicted our set, I don’t see how I can return to Transparent.
It has been reported that they were already working on a show without him, but how can it go on without him? It is something Amazon will have to figure out and let us know.
When it comes to Arrested Development, Tony Hale Tweeted they had their wrap party this weekend. Therefore, if he is in it, he most likely already filmed his scenes.
