Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ Season 3: TV Review

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“With great power comes the absolute certainty you’ll turn into a right cunt.” That line, delivered with a weary sigh by Karl Urban’s Butcher in the new season, has been more or less The Boys‘ thesis statement from the beginning.

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the world of this Amazon series, special abilities haven’t made superheroes more noble — just better able to get away with sordid or sadistic behavior,

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secure in the knowledge that they can punch their way out of any mess and leave their bosses at Vought International to deal with the cleanup.

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That hasn’t significantly changed in season three. The Boys is still the show that’ll serve up exploding bodies with a smirk and make time for a field trip to a superpower-fueled orgy.

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But buried in all that carnage, it also finds something approaching a heart — and in doing so, brings the more thoughtful aspects of its story to a riveting new chapter.

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Season three picks up roughly a year after the events of season two, and initially, things look downright balmy for our central players.

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