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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lucy Mangan

The Boys series three review – still hilarious, ultraviolent and brilliant

Suped up … Karen Fukuhara, Karl Urban, Tomer Capone and Laz Alonso in The Boys.
Suped up … Karen Fukuhara, Karl Urban, Tomer Capone and Laz Alonso in The Boys. Photograph: Amazon Studios and Sony Pictures Television Studios

The Boys is back in town, The Boys is back in town! Or at least on Amazon Prime Video, which it’s almost worth getting just for this idiosyncratic series on what life would really be like for modern-day superheroes cum satirical take on America.

In fact, in light of one particular set piece about 10 minutes into the first episode of the new, third series – which for sheer sideswiping audacity I do not think will ever be bettered – it is definitely worth acquiring the means to view it. I still can’t believe what I saw – and I am very much enjoying the feeling. But more on that later.

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