If you haven’t checked out Amazon’s ‘The Boys’ yet, now is the time to start

[Andy Meek]

• Amazon is the streaming provider at the top of our list of the most-watched TV shows this week, thanks to the service's hit series The Boys.
• The series is an irreverent take on the superhero genre, and, per Amazon, shows what happens when "superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good."
• Season 2 of Amazon's The Boys debuted earlier this month.

At one point during the just-released second season of Amazon's hit series The Boys, one of the costumed heroes (named Starlight) gives a speech as her eyes start to fill with tears. A speech that, for me, perfectly encapsulates the kind of anti-hero, anti-Marvel Cinematic Universe feel of The Boys, wherein the good guys -- yeah, they have superpowers, but they're just as flawed and imperfect as the rest of us. "I gave my whole life to nothing," Starlight laments. “The good guys don’t win. The bad guys don’t get punished. What we do means nothing. It’s just all for money.”

Depressing? Hardly. I'm addicted to this series, which debuted on Amazon Prime Video earlier this month, and which is one of the most-watched TV shows across all the major streamers right now. It's at the top of our list this week, in fact, for reasons that if I had to guess have to do with the disquiet that pervades the world we're living in right now and the unsettling feeling that's permeated pretty much all of 2020.

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