I Watch TV: The Boys: Diabolical

The Boys: Diabolical

Eight cartoons in The Boys setting, in which the evil Vought Corporation has created superheroes, who are mostly violent maniacs. The ones that stick closest to The Boys lore have all the problems of the show and miss much of interest. If it takes Billy Butcher several episodes of effort to make an attack on a superhero, while struggling with his own problems, and the other members of the team have qualms, that’s a story. A fifteen-minute cartoon where he blackmails a drug dealer to cause a super to publicly and gruesomely self-destruct is just some violent nonsense.

But! There are a couple that break the mould a little, people trying to exist, survive in a superhero world. People with regular problems, that they try to solve with super-solutions. And they’re pretty good. But as I said, only a couple.

There’s probably as much gore and grossness in one of these than a regular episode of The Boys, while being much shorter, and that’s too much for me. When it punctuates the various adventures and plots it’s powerful, when it’s most of the show then it’s numbing.

Watch This: Violent, funny and occasionally interesting cartoons
Don’t Watch This: The Boys is already too grim and gory