Amazon Doubles Down on “The Boys” for Members of TCA

One panel consisted of the actors pictured at top who play the amp8220boysamp8221 of the title including one woman a ragtag group of skilled vigilantes charged with stopping a rogue team of superheroes who are marketed and licensed by a worldwide conglomerate and have taken to abusing their powers in all kinds of wicked waysamp160 The second panel featured the actors pictured below who play the amp8220supesamp8221 as the heroes are knownamp160 Both sessions included showrunner Eric Kripke a household name in genre circles for his longtime work on The CWamp8217s SupernaturalSeth Rogen and Evan Goldberg who are executive producers of The Boys as they were on Preacher appeared briefly at the start of the first panel to introduce the showamp160 amp8220Just a reminder The Boys comes out on Amazon Primeamp8221 said Rogenamp160 amp8220Please watch thatamp160 Jeff Bezos desperately needs more moneyamp8221amp8220This is a show that works for people who both love and hate superhero stuffamp8221 Kripke said when asked about its growing popularityamp160 amp160amp8220It delivers all the pleasure of that genre but also is highly critical and deconstructive of it amp160I also think this show reflects the exact minute we39re living in and I think people find it sort of surprisingly current and probably smarter than they thought it was going to be when they tuned inamp8221amp160 Editoramp8217s note amp160The original 72issue run of the comic book on which this series is based began in 2006 and ended in 2012amp160 Dynamite the publisher revived the title earlier this yearamp160amp8220It was interesting going into Season 2amp8221 noted Karl Urban who plays lead vigilante Butcheramp160 amp8220Eric got the gang together and said amp8216Listen for Season 2 we don39t necessarily actually want to go bigger and have more special effects and bigger action sequencesamp160 What we really want to do is just dive deeper into the characters into their journeys and really test all the charactersamp160 They each have something that39s very important to them ripped away from them and we get to see how they all individually deal with itamp8220You know in this show there39s a very specific parallel to the one percent and authority figures and people who hold all the cards and all the power and this kind of ragtag blue collar group is trying to even the playing fieldamp8221 he continuedamp160 amp8220I think there39s a lot of parallels of that in what39s happening todayamp160 If there39s a message in the show amp8230 it39s that there are these massive forces that are trying to grind you down but you survive by showing each other love and loyalty and forming a family however you define thatamp8221But what about the ultraviolence for which the show is knownamp160amp160amp8220It definitely got a blood budget for Season 2 that39s without a doubtamp8221 laughed Laz Alonzo pictured above left with Urban who plays Motheramp8217s Milk another vigilanteamp160Notably a new character who will be introduced in Season 2 the superpowered Stormfront has been changed from a male in the comic book to a female in the seriesamp160 Sheamp8217ll be played by Aya Cash pictured belowamp160 Critics wondered whyamp160 Kripke said it was the relevancy thing againamp8220Stormfront has certain hateful ideologies I would sayamp8221 he explainedamp160 amp8220The truth is if you look online there39s a lot of hate and negative thought these days that is packaged in social media in attractive waysamp160 It39s not like old dudes with crewcuts in the 1960s newsreels anymoreamp160 It39s very real and slick you know charming people who are trying to hook a new generation and we sort of wanted to reflect how insidious that isamp8221amp8220Itamp8217s a real punch for my character having someone new come inamp8221 noted Antony Starr who plays Homelander arguably the most sociopathic of the supesamp160 amp8220Irrespective of Stormfrontamp8217s gender it would have been pretty much a huge problem for him no matter whatamp160 But thereamp8217s definitely that oldfashioned attitude of not wanting to be told what to do by a womanamp160 I lean more into it and more into the angle that Homelander just is an extremely weak figure emotionally and just canamp8217t handle the fact that thereamp8217s this new hot young chick coming in with reckless abandon who doesnamp8217t respect him and doesnamp8217t fear him and presents him with a whole new set of challenges that he doesnamp8217t really know how to cope withamp160 Sheamp8217s actually the instigator of tremendous evolutionamp8221The war between the Boys and the Supes resumes on September 4 2020If you need a refresher read Ainsley Andrade39s review of The Boys Season 1Click the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of 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