Shizuka2008

Some kids decide to stay overnight in some creepy old mental asylum and then...

"Wait", you say, "haven't I seen this a thousand times before?"

Yes, you have - but never as bad as this.

The only horror about this stinker is the total lack of any originality or creativity or talent you are going to witness.

In that way it works - the lack of any basic filmmaking skills is really horrific and will scare you for weeks to come.

What a snoozefest.... The lame and boring story would only have been good for a 90 minutes movie but they did drag it out over eight (yaaaaawn) episodes because for subscription streaming TV it's: the longer the better, because it keeps customers renewing their subscription. But in this case it's just long and boooring as hell. You can literally just watch the first half of the first episode and the second half of the last episode and miss absolutely nothing interesting inbetween. But even if you do that you get bored like nothing you ever seen before. Subscription streaming TV really kills any creativity and originality these days.

The comic book "The Boys" is dark, twisted, funny and a hell of an entertaining ride with a great story and crazy good characters. Everything this lousy TV series is not. All they had to do was take the story of the comic and put it onto the TV screen and you would have ended up with an epic TV show. Think of Breaking Bad meets the first seasons of Game of Thrones meets The Sopranos. But for some reason they decided to completely rewrite the story, hire completely wrong actors and turn it into an epic fail of a boring snoozefest. Instead of a wild, weird storyline like in the comic book we see miscast actors spending their time in some bowling alley talking about nonsense, or they are sitting around in some cellar doing nothing, they are discussing really boring stuff in some corporate office, they visit some festivites , or (my highlight) they are giving endless boring speeches. Again and again. There are only a few good scenes in all of the eight episodes when - you guessed it - they stuck to the comic book. But that only makes about 20 minutes or so. The rest of the eight hours of showtime is an absolute boring disaster, a creative catastrophe brought to you by talentless showrunners who brought you such snoozefests like "Supernatural" or any lame Seth Rogen "comedy". "The Boys" as comic is one of the best comics ever. "The Boys" as TV series is THE WORST TV SHOW EVER. Read the comic book.