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Why I love "The Boys"

I am the sort of person who gets excited about TV shows, old or new. Most recently I re-watched the entirety of The Boys, in keen anticipation of Season 4 dropping soon.  In a post Game of Thrones era where big budget prestige TV had blood, gore and lots of dirty sex on-screen, The Boys still manages to consistently shock and awe its viewers through the sheer audaciousness of some of its visuals. On re-watch, I was consistently awed by how good the show is overall, it has a fantastic concept (corrupted superheroes who live for approval ratings), excellent acting and sequences which will be burned in your brain forever (a mite sized superhero who tickles his gay lovers dick from the inside and explodes into full size after sneezing from snorting cocaine - yes, thats a real sentence and the way it is filmed is astonishing!). The world of The Boys is populated by familiar superheroes in avatars that are far more believable than the airbrushed world of other popular super hero franchis...