Payback

Great opening scene. The movie within a series. Looked nicely done. And I loved the female cameo - I wont spoil it here, but this is her 2nd cameo this year.

Amazon Prime should actually consider a real spin off movie of 'The Seven'. Not the 'behind the scenes' real personalities we see in this series, but their public personas. With a budget, that would definitely be watched.

As you'd expect, the rest of the ep is mostly set up for the season. But its still entertaining.

Highlights were the various Homelander, A-Train & The Deep scenes, plus the reality tv show casting with Supersonic (hopefully we see more of him).

The Hughie home & office scenes got a little boring. I mean, we got 2 separate scenes of him having lunch with his boss. I was like, come on, lets move it along. But apart from that it was good.

Seeing as we're jumping forward a year and facing down the barrel of a massive status quo shift, this episode had some heavy lifting to do. However, it passed the test with flying colours. Not only did it provide us a well-paced catch-up to where everyone stands as-is, the episode provides some very fun and interesting new relationships to be explored over the season.

The ending of the episode provides some great tension, gore and sets up a solid plot thread and character building for a main cast member while also adding depth to a previously slightly two-dimensional character.

Overall, very, VERY good opening to the season. At this moment in time, my favourite in the series.

Man, this guy gives me the shivers. What a perfomance from Anthony & Karl. 2 of my favorite tv characters. The Lightweight scene was disgusting, but also very unique. And the cliffhanger ending!!

After The Boys serves us with all the non stop crazy stuff in season 2, the opening episode is kinda a bit slow in pacing but the introductory to the characters and the build up on what happening next is amazing. It feels more like a movie and honestly feels different in tone.

What a great treat to have The Boys back!

Just a breathe of fresh air to all the superhero content on every streaming platform morning to night.

Beautifully rough around the edges and no backtracking on the blood splatter or bad taste abound.