I just finished 8 episodes in one go.
Obviously this is not a superhero drama in the traditional sense.
You have to say that this is a combination of the dark wind of the original comics, and by the way, it is better to fill Seth Rogan's mind with all kinds of bad taste and irony.
You can see familiar shadows in this world at a glance.
Although there is no Justice League here, they have a team of seven, namely, the Motherland (Super Super), Queen Maeve (WW), Deep Sea (Sea King), Locomotive (Xiao Shan), and a certain ninja (GIJ's snake eye?!) , The invisible man and the heroine Starlight.
Compared to superheroes, their existence is more like a star.
To be among the seven people at the top of the hero's career, you don't need to save the world, you don't need to have superpowers that others can't match, you just need to pass an interview.
These greatest superheroes all belong to a super company called Water.
They are the "products" launched by this company.
Your itinerary, your appearance, and every word you say in public are carefully planned. Behind you is the entire crime prediction department to formulate a route to combat criminals. Your public relations team guarantees you at all times , And after you make things happen, help you clean your butt.
You are the savior in the eyes of ordinary people, and relevant religious groups keep claiming that superheroes are God’s darlings and the angels he sent to save the world; your approval rate remains high on the perfect planning download social media, where do you go You are greeted with cheers and applause; your surroundings can bring tens of billions of revenue a year, and every superhero movie starring in is comparable to MCU~
In this world, the biggest stars are the superheroes; the biggest business is the superheroes; the closest to the gods are the superheroes, they are like the gods among us,
GOD AMONG US.
Yes, apart from superheroes who really have supernatural powers, this is no different from our world. Consumerism and traffic control everything. Ordinary people are lost in the huge and bloated flow of information, their heads are empty, and they look forward to something illusory. Power comes to save a life of tragedy. Few people think about what darkness lies behind those fanaticisms.
The male protagonist, an ordinary big boy, a little bit embarrassed, a little nerdy, an avid fan of super-British locomotives, and a girlfriend who is passionately in love. The two are full of longing for the future. Until one day, the locomotive that was taking too much drugs hit his girlfriend into a ball of blood in the street.
His world began to get out of control, especially when he discovered that those superheroes didn’t even think it was a matter, and wanted to seal his mouth with only 45,000 knives. At that moment, the naked reality shattered the super-British halo. The constituted curtain reveals fangs and claws.
The male protagonist painfully did what 99% of ordinary people would do,
silence.
At this time, a man called the butcher found him, and he brought the truth, the naked truth behind those cloaks and the god-making movement, those super heroes were just a bunch of complete bastards.
The hero began to experience a loss of control that he had never experienced before.
He believed the butcher's words, sneaked into Water, installed a bug, but was spotted and followed by an invisible man of seven. In the end, in order to survive, he and the butcher joined forces to catch the invisible man, but how to deal with this trouble became a headache.
It is a living god. Mortals can be imprisoned, but cannot be killed. They can't even penetrate the skin of invisible people whose hardness is comparable to diamonds.
In the end, the French found a solution-a very Seth Rogan pee-style solution, stunned the invisible person, and then stuffed his ass with C4.
In order to cope with the people from the motherland who came to check, they handed the remote control to the male protagonist. By mistake, the male protagonist finally pressed the button.
Loss of control reached its peak at this moment, and the invisible man was blown up into the flesh and blood residue flying all over the sky, just like his dead girlfriend.
At that moment, he was reborn.
BOYS was also born. This team has no superpowers and no government support. It is just a group of criminals and street rats.
They killed the first super-British bastard in their career, and then they will continue to dig out more super-British and Walter black materials, and officially declare war on the superior gods. Their original intention is not great, and they are not qualified to stand on any moral high ground, not for social justice or for the fairness of the world.
These ordinary people who declare war on God are just for revenge. (True Avengers.JPG)
In the following scene, the butcher brought the male lead to a mutual aid club. A group of people talked about the process of being "indirectly injured" by the superhero, but they all thought it was just some kind of "cost of getting along with the gods." There are regrets, but the slightest. There is no courage and action to seek justice. The butcher hated this cowardice, he scolded and left.
It can be said that the butcher is the core of BOYS. His obsession and anger have dragged all relevant people into hell. All he has done is to destroy the people of the motherland. Even he himself knows that this is unrealistic, but it is correct. It is this obsession and hatred that allowed BOYS to gather together and start this secret war that may never be won.
Just like in real life, the unbearable victims and celebrities confronted the public court; sued a large company; expressed dissatisfaction with a certain public sector. The only difference is that in reality we are fighting against high legal fees, and the cost of time is also There is the crushing of unequal resources; and BOYS is fighting against the gods themselves. With a single thought, the people of the motherland are enough to crush them.
This is a classic heroic story,
The crazy old knight raised his gun to the windmill, and BOYS declared war on the gods.
It’s a pity that there are too many worldviews to be shown in the first season. The BOYS team itself did not spend much time. We can see that the butcher finally chose a different path from other teammates. He hates all super-British players and feels that there is no possibility of reconciliation between the two sides. In the end, they parted ways with the others, and the lone wolf launched the final revenge; the French and the male protagonist have formed a bond with Chaoying, and they think there are other possibilities. In the second season, the contradictions within BOYS must be one of the highlights.
What's interesting is that the series spent a lot of pen and ink to describe the villain's super hero.
The heroine Xingguang, a simple girl born with superpowers, her mother cultivated her as a future star. Her growth is no different from countless boys and girls whose parents have star dreams. (The horse man next door is about to cry. )
A girl with persistent dreams finally walked into the sanctuary in her heart, only to find that everything here is so ugly.
Can be admitted, not because she has dreams and abilities, but because her conservative and leading girl image is very popular with fixed audiences; she encountered unspoken rules on the first day, and then found that everything she wanted was planned according to the book. Everything she believed was like a joke, she couldn't even decide what to say and what to wear, everything was a cold number.
If wearing a uniform like a high-fork swimsuit can increase the approval rate of men by 15%, you have to wear it for me.
The masses are consuming Chaoying, they have brought Chaoying to the altar, and they can become gods in this era of supremacy of consumption and entertainment.
From another perspective, Chaoying has also become a slave in the spotlight.
The outdated Chaoying is not even as good as a dog,
For example, Devil's Claw, she used to be popular. After she was angry, she could only hang up her young photos and stills in her room. She watched the movie she once starred in again and again, and the rent was in arrears. Even the relationship with the locomotive could only be humble. And sneaky, not to be seen.
A certain former child star (this looks like the child of AI and the sixth sense, the cast was not found, I don’t know if it is.)
Acting in his true colors, with the ability to read the thinking of others, as a child star, starred in a hot drama, involved in company black material as an adult, was expelled, drug and alcohol abuse, and even the custody of his daughter was lost. He did not hesitate to betray BOYS, just want to return to the spotlight, and finally was killed by a butcher, a total tragedy.
Even the top seven can't escape this fate.
The invisible person is cynical and likes to peep into the privacy of others. It is like an old pervert who has a desire to voyeur. Such an old pervert understands people's hearts and reads too much, and the more boring it becomes. Chatting with Xingguang let the male protagonist know that he was divorced and has a very loving daughter. The male protagonist can no longer regard him as an invulnerable bastard monster.
Lokomotiv must maintain the title of "the fastest man in the world", especially when a super-British who is faster than him comes in the city, he has to take doping in the game against the opponent, even if he knows that it will kill himself . He has never dared to announce his relationship with Demon Claw Girl in any public place. After the broken leg withdrew from public view, all the peripheral endorsements became opponents, and even an ordinary old man ignored him.
Deep Sea has never been confident. He thinks he is a joke. He doesn't like his body with cheeks. He doesn't like others to look down on him. In the end, he did a series of silly things to find his presence. He was abandoned by the company and sent to the countryside. He has lost everything, no more public relations team, no more stylist team and crime prevention team, he can finally deal with his body and life at will,
Maeve used to believe that she could change the world like Starlight, but after seeing the darkness of the world, she chose to turn a blind eye. The life of alcohol and decadence still had a trace of kindness in her heart, so she still felt contradictory and painful. The ruthlessness and selfishness of the people of the motherland are angry, but there is no way to stop everything.
As for the natives of the country, he is the personification of morality on the surface. He is the representative of sunshine, America, and freedom. He is basically a great super in this world, omnipotent, and beloved by others, but only he knows that he is the product of experiments, he is a product, and Walter's most successful product. Since childhood, he has been closed to the lack of love, even if he has the power of a god, he still lacks security in his heart, so he has an abnormal love for the female boss, so he hates everything in his heart.
(There is also a ninja buddy who is really too passerby, there is no way.)
As the BOYS investigation progresses, we have also been able to know,
The superheroes of this world are not God’s creations, but the products of Water Lab.
God's darling is actually a man-made monster.
After understanding this, BOYS’s worldview has truly been established.
GODS AMONG US, the super heroes in this world have divine powers, but they still have a human heart. Human beings can be despicable, shameless, and lonely, but they can also be great, kind, and love.
It can be a hero or a demon.
At the end of the first season, the people of the motherland learned about their life experience and found that they could reproduce naturally without drugs. This deprived him of the last chain on his body, so he killed the female boss, and Walter could no longer control him, thinking about it no longer. For any restrained evil, the world can be said to usher in a nightmare. Imagine a child who is full of malice towards the world, but holding the button of a nuclear bomb launcher in his hand.
The butcher's drive has been shattered, his wife is not dead, his hatred and obsession have turned into a joke, whether it will blacken into a real butcher, we will wait and see.
PS: Some people say that this drama still relies on violence and sex to attract eyeballs. I personally disagree. It's better to say that you use violence and sex to attract eyeballs.
First of all, there are not many sex scenes in this play. There are basically no sex scenes for the sake of sex. The promiscuity of the opening CLUB shows the hypocrisy of the super British; the abnormal love between the motherland and the female BOSS makes the characters more three-dimensional; as for the stars and the male protagonist That is a love scene.
As for violence, some scenes are indeed a bit exaggerated, such as killing invisible people and thinking about it again. This kind of pyrotechnic scene also means the transformation of the male lead and the excitement of killing gods. In the Devil's Claw section, the plot needs to show ordinary people and The huge difference between the super-British countries may be just a moment of excitement, and ordinary people have become "collateral damage"; the mass murder of the motherland is also completely necessary. The red eyes and flesh and blood in the dim remind us that human beings are in him. There were only ants in his eyes. At that moment, the superhero and angel tore off all the disguise and turned into a complete demon.
Looking forward to the second season.
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