“The Boys” Season 4 is off to a super start.
Through its first 39 days of availability, the fourth season of “The Boys” has drawn 55-plus million viewers worldwide, Amazon said, which is 20 percent better than Season 3’s start (over the same 39-day period). It is the fourth-best season of television ever on Amazon Prime Video, behind just (in order) “Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” Season 1, “Fallout” Season 1, and “Reacher” Season 2.
Amazon says that 60 percent of “The Boys” Season 4 audience was based outside of the U.S. Particularly strong performances came from the UK, Brazil, India, Germany, Canada, France, Mexico, Spain, and Italy. All told, “The Boys” Season 4 reached number 1 on Prime Video in more than 170 countries.
“The Boys” made headlines last week when its Season 4 finale was updated to include a warning of “fictional political violence.”
“The season finale of ‘The Boys’ contains scenes of fictional political violence, which some viewers may find disturbing, especially in light of the injuries and tragic loss of life sustained during the assassination attempt on former President Trump,” an Amazon Prime Video statement read. “‘The Boys’ is a fictitious series that was filmed in 2023, and any scene or plotline similarities to these real-world events are coincidental and unintentional. Amazon, Sony Pictures Television, and the producers of ‘The Boys’ reject, in the strongest terms, real-world violence of any kind.”
IndieWire TV critic Ben Travers called the fourth season of Eric Kripke’s “The Boys” an “extra brutal” one. But it also has moments of sincerity, and is “bursting with storylines.” He gave it a grade of B+.
“‘The Boys’ always aims to go mano a mano with current events, and Season 4 is no exception. From Homelander’s opening trial to a central thread over certifying the presidential election, it’s impossible not to see our roiling present and imminent future in between bursts of laser vision and super-speed,” Travers wrote. “Fittingly, it makes for a bleak season, and just as fittingly, there’s no easy fix waiting in the finale. The Avengers aren’t going to turn back time. Batman’s not going to fly the bomb out of Gotham City. There’s no single hero to save us. Instead, there’s an ideal — an ideal that may be rapidly fading, but will always be vital to a functioning society. An ideal ‘The Boys’ finds a way to embody, even when things get truly nasty. You have to be able to spot it through the bedlam. You have to cling on as it slips in and out of your grasp, and then you have to find a way to pass it on.”
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