Last summer , "The Boys", a new drama about the sanctimonious blackened superhero vs the bitter and vengeful civilian waste wood alliance, became an instant hit and became one of the pillars of Amazon Prime.
The second season returned as scheduled, with a total of eight episodes, three episodes starting this week, followed by an update every Friday.
I couldn't hold back my excitement, and after a wave of early adopters, I couldn't help but sigh: It's still the same taste!
The popularity of "Black Robe Pickets" is not only due to the blackening of the superhero theme, coupled with the constant routines and anti-routines, against the background of the magical reality where the superhero movie is popular all over the country and the actors and the superhero IP are almost integrated. It 's refreshing ; it's also because the show is "crazy enough": it dares to say it, and it dares to shoot.
- Dare to be sarcastic : from the hypocritical elites of pseudo-feminism, pseudo-heroes, to the superheroes, who can't escape the puppet nature of consumerism and capitalism even if they can go to the sea; Ji already has a stunned seated person);
- Dare to show dark and bloody pictures : two scenes that are still unforgettable in the first season, the stunned "high-speed collision" at the beginning, and the "human body detonation" with plasma and tissue fluid flying; at least one bloody explosion point in each episode , the right bloody and dark decadent temperament perfectly blended together.
After such a "baptism" in the first season, I thought to myself: I should get used to this bloody level...
Black Robe Season 2: No, you didn't
Personally, I watched the first three episodes without watching the trailer, so like the first season, I was really surprised by the bloody explosion in it. It can compete with HBO's new drama "Devil's Land" next door. .
And take a closer look, the blood in each episode has changed.
At present, the most brilliant bloody episode is the third season "Dream Back to "The Revenant"" .
The taste is really too big, it feels like it's overflowing from the screen, hahaha.
Except for the bloody elements of the R-level that have not been lowered at all, the hilarious nonsensical elements and the too fast yellow jokes are also in the same line.
This actually depends on the individual. I myself belong to the category with low laughing points. For example, the affectionate speech given by the acting school of the motherland at the opening of the second season is really hypocritical and hypocritical in my opinion, so I am very embarrassed to laugh out loud at the memorial service...
In addition, two more impressive jokes:
- God metaphor : In the first episode, the male protagonist compared himself to the female protagonist in HP Harry Potter and the Hunger Games (huh?)
- Puns : When Shen Hai apologized to Xingguang, he said my road is long and hard, which inevitably felt a second layer of deep meaning (dog head and body protection)
In terms of characters, although many people are still complaining about the male protagonist, there is still considerable progress compared with the beginning of the first season. After all the adventures, he has become more good at expressing himself (although it is not enough). Especially his excited and flustered confession on the boat, and the knowing smile at the end "before he died", I was really touched.
As the "light of the right path" in "All the Evil People", it is inevitable to be ridiculed as "white lotus". In such a chaotic superhero world where people lose their heads every minute, insisting on morality and kindness may seem trivial, but it may be able to keep the boys on the right course, instead of being carried away by hatred and evil thoughts.
In addition, the deep sea is also relatively pitiful. Although it seems that after finally accepting himself under the influence of magic stick drugs, he sincerely wants to make up for his mistakes and return to the team, but who told him that he was sinful, was ruthlessly rejected, and even the wound in his heart has just healed, and he It was cruelly torn apart by the unintentional sentence "cover your fins, it looks so disgusting" by the motherland...
In terms of the overall story, I didn't expect that the second season would not be released all at once like the first season, but to follow the example of Hulu and HBO, and release the first three episodes first, followed by weekly updates one by one. For example, Amazon Prime released all the episodes like Netflix. This time, it is obviously because of the suspension of production due to the epidemic, resulting in insufficient inventory. There are not enough new products to be put on the shelves, so we have to adopt the method of weekly update to be able to delay a week.
In addition to the lack of inventory, the first three episodes actually have a certain integrity in the plot, which can be regarded as a small unit.
Why do you say that?
The first is the ingenious formation of end-to-end echoes.
- At the beginning of the first episode, under the spotlight, the people of the motherland falsely mourn the invisible man who disappeared in the first season;
- At the end of the third episode, the new member Storm successfully grabbed the credit, successfully took the position, stood in the position of the motherland, and instead appeared in front of the camera, and even threw a contemptuous smile at the motherland;
They are all hypocritical, the latter is more cold-blooded and ruthless, echoing the front and back, the theme of this season's "two tigers" is basically a certainty.
The second is to complete the complete appearance of the new character Storm .
- From the very beginning, the calf was not afraid of tigers, and the Internet celebrity was silly and sweet with a mobile phone live broadcast;
- In the second episode, the cool girl who is outspoken and critical of pseudo-feminism;
- In the third episode, the mask is torn up, revealing the sinful corners of murderous and racial discrimination (killing passers-by who had no threat and leaving no one alive, it is no longer cold-blooded and ruthless, it is already demonic and inhuman)
The entire "change" arc actually guides the audience towards the new characters, from the novelty of "holding a pipa half-covered" from a distance, to the epiphany and chilling back of "only knowing that I am in this mountain" after a close-up view.
Introducing a "villain" like this feels like a routine haha.
Follow-up speculation: the wicked have their own grind
After watching the preview of this season, I know a little bit about the follow-up content.
[ Although it is only speculation, it is still a spoiler warning. ]
"The wicked have their own wicked grind", the frontal fight between the two superhero wicked motherlanders and the storm will not come as soon as we think.
After being robbed of Gong Gong at the end of the third episode, the motherland was furious and confronted the storm face to face. And Storm explained his plan to the people of the motherland, that is, to use the opportunity of material No. 5 to be made public to guide public opinion, incite the public, and use No. 5 material to create a new "superhero team". . The people of the motherland readily agreed and joined hands to cooperate.
The proof is these screenshots in the preview:
1) The storm stirs up the people : look at the content on the slogan
- stormfront protect us - the storm protected us;
- who will they kill next?
- remember the 59 - Remember the dead 59 people, that is, the civilians killed and wounded in the third episode of the melee, the news is written in small print at the end;
It can be speculated that Storm used the "super terrorist killing incident" to incite the public to use Substance 5 to create more superheroes like Storm - using "fear" to incite the public, who is the traditional art ? (Understand?)
2) The super-powered teenager , like killing a fly, pinched a person directly and exploded... It is very likely that the above-mentioned superhero team was created by using No. 5 substance to capture "super terrorists". .
3) The words of tigers and wolves between the motherland and the storm , and then directly shoot the laser to the storm's chest, unscathed, and absorb the power? Including the follow-up two people jointly giving a speech at the rally, continuing the incitement of the first screenshot, which is staggering.
As far as comics are concerned, the fall of superheroes is definitely impossible to deal with by relying on the useless alliance without superpowers. It is necessary to take a stratagem of alienation and let them fight within each other. Only after the tigers and tigers fight and lose both sides can they reap the benefits of the fisherman.
In addition, you can also think about the future development of the son of the motherland . Because the second season poster happens to have a baby with red eyes, which may be referring to the son who just discovered his superpowers in the second episode. Presumably the follow-up is also a bomb that detonated the plot. I just hope that the bloody plot similar to "Assassin League" "I was instigated to kill my father" will not be staged again...
Lastly, because of the high ratings and word of mouth of the first season, "Black Robe Pickets" has been renewed for the third season before the second season. And a new starring in the third season has been confirmed - Jensen Ackles, the old Wen family's eldest brother from "The Power of Evil", who plays the super soldier - the blackened version of the US team
Does this mean that the new character storm in the second season has been booked in advance? (After all, the old doesn't go away, and the new doesn't come)
We will wait and see.
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