Burlyman

Starting off, I liked the show. The fight scenes were actually well done. The characters were believable as superheroes and the casting was solid. Where they failed was that this first season was an excellent second season. They jumped right into things without spending the time to really develop the plot lines. They started right in tearing down the Utopian without setting him up as the mentor and godlike leader of the Union. I can't acknowledge or enjoy the downfall if I never saw him put up on the pedestal to being with. Same goes for all of the other minor superheroes of the show. They take right off and start killing them off with a Suicide Squad abandon, which if fine, but the show never gave me a chance to get to know them, so I don't feel much at their loss. Again, I feel like if they had just spent the first season establishing the tone, the world building and showing what was so great about all of these superheroes, and then spent the next season tearing it all down, this could have been one of the great superhero shows. Just as The Boys explores what it is like to be a regular person in a superheroes world, this show tried to show what it would actually be like to be a superhero with the flaws of a regular person. Great concept, great cast, good writing, but just out of order, and a lack of patience ruined it.