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The Boys Season 2 Episode 5 Review – ‘We Gotta Go Now’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Boys season 2… Inside a panic room, underneath a suburban home sit three key characters. Homemade booby traps fashioned from domestic cleaning products serve as the first line of defence against an imminent threat. Fire trucks, emergency services and a gaggle of gung-ho authority figures offer our […]

Amazon’s The Boys gets violently fun Baby Laser Tag app

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Eammon Jacobs gets hands on with the Baby Laser Tag app for Amazon’s The Boys… While Amazon Prime’s The Boys continues to thrill audiences week-by-week with the heinous antics of the superhero group, a new app gives audiences their very own super-baby with laser eyes in this violently fun Baby Laser Tag augmented reality app. […]

Showrunner Eric Kripke explains why The Boys season 2 is being released weekly

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Amazon shook up its distribution model for the second season of its acclaimed comic book adaptation The Boys, with fans only getting the first three episodes in one go before things shifted to a weekly release pattern form the remaining five. As such, we’re only halfway through the season so far, and it’s a decision […]

The Boys Season 2 Episode 4 Review – ‘Nothing Like It In The World’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of The Boys season 2… Does anyone else get a When Harry Met Sally vibe? Before you spit you’re collective dummies out look beyond the public demonstrations, Taxi Driver references and pointed diversity discussions and think. Those little straight to camera vignettes might seem like nothing at first glance, […]

The Boys Season 2 Episode 3 Review – ‘Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of The Boys season 2… There is a bravado which goes hand in hand with the tag line lifted with flair from an early Eighties anthem by Tenpole Tudor. A rousing call to arms for those roustabouts who band together against an insurmountable force of superior foes. It harks […]

The Boys Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘Proper Preparation and Planning’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of The Boys season 2… The Boys has always been about identity, either those we share in private, those we flaunt in public and to a lesser degree the one we don’t talk about at parties. In a society defined by misinformation, corporate spin and increasingly personal agendas, this […]

Exclusive Interviews – The Boys Season 2 Cast and Crew

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Tai Freligh interviews the cast and crew of The Boys Season 2… The Boys, on Amazon Prime Video, is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. Showrunner Eric Kripke along […]