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What have we learned from the new trailer of Amazon’s The Boys.
The Boys dropped its second NSFW trailer. The first one showed all sorts of brutal, vulgar, and sexual things that we will see in Season 1. Everything you’d expect and hope from if you’ve read The Boys comic book by Garth Ennis or heard of it previously.
It was fun to watch, but it didn’t tell us much about the show. However, this second trailer gave us more. It combined footage that we’ve already seen like Homelander saying he can do “whatever the **** he wants. It also showed us what to expect from the characters and the series.
Check out Amazon Prime’s latest trailer for The Boys below:
The first thing we see is Hughie wiping off the screen at his job until Butcher walks in. Butcher tells him he’s not going to mess around. He tells Hughie that he knows what happened to Robin. We then get a flashback of what happened.
Hughie’s girlfriend was killed by A-Train, who is a member of the Seven (their world’s greatest “heroes”). He ran right through her leaving nothing except a bloody mess and Hughie holding her arms that were completely detached from her body.
Fans of the comic book series will be happy because this scene is similar to what happened to Hughie’s girlfriend in the comics. It’s the reason that Butcher visits Hughie and the reason he joins the team. This gave fans something that lets them know that the creators aren’t shying too far away from the source material while making the show appealing to TV viewers.
Most of the viewers are just looking for a good show to watch. They don’t know about the comic book. So now we have a bit of the origin. What happens next is perfect. We find out about the rest of the team.
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Who are The Boys?
The Boys consists of Butcher, Mother’s Milk (M.M.), the Frenchman, the Female, and Hughie. We get a small glimpse into what their personalities are and what they are capable of.
We see the Female dodge bullets and then rip into a guy’s eyes and kills him. M.M. then tells the Frenchman to get ahold of her. The Frenchman then tells M.M. that he needs to “unclench” to which Butcher responds to them both as only he could. He tells them to stop acting like a bunch of t****. The Female just looks on. Wait, there’s more.
Hell hath no fury like The Female scorned. pic.twitter.com/LvUEYVhINh
— THE BOYS (@TheBoysTV) May 30, 2019
Towards the end of the trailer, M.M. says he’s done. Butcher goes into a speech about how M.M. is Sporty Spice of the Spice Girls. Without Sporty, the Spice Girls are nothing, just like their team.
Butcher says it in a more colorful way than I can’t repeat here. M.M. returns and tells him that Butcher gives the worst pep talks, something the Frenchman agrees with. However, it worked. The trailer ends with a bunch of fight scenes fittingly set to the Spice Girls song, “Wannabe.”
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Why this show will work
Butcher in The Boys comics wasn’t one for speeches. He did have a way of keeping his team together. The way it’s shown in the trailer was more relatable to the masses. Butcher is a lot gruffer in the comics. He seems softer here. Softer doesn’t mean he’s not tough. We see him shooting people, cutting off a head with lasers coming from a baby’s eyes, and flat out beating people down. It’s smart that they’ve toned down how The Boys fight. Yes, this is toned down. It may be too much for viewers. Although, as we’ve seen in the trailers, The Boys is still going to be incredibly violent and gruesome.
The Boys isn’t for everyone, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t give it a shot. The previews can only give you so much of the show.
The story from the comic has a deeper storyline about friendship, love, and, more importantly, finding people when you need them. Hopefully we’ll get to see the relationship between Starlight and Hughie. Both had an incredibly tragic beginning and end up finding each other when they both started to hate their jobs and the lives they chose. Something everyone can relate to.
With Seth Rogan and the creators of Supernatural involved in this, there’s no way this show should be bad.
The Boys premiers July 26 on Amazon Prime Video. Stay tuned at Bam Smack Pow for reviews and news about the show as they develop.