Where can I stream The Boys?

The Boys streams on Prime Video. It ran for 5 seasons (2019–present).

Official theatrical poster for The Boys (2019)

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Q: Is The Boys worth watching?

The Boys has a Celluloid Score of 83%, averaged from critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, IMDb, and fan ratings. It comes recommended overall. Created by Eric Kripke.

Created by Eric Kripke · 2019–present

Quick Verdict

The Boys has a 83% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, IMDb, and fan ratings. Recommended — recommended. Streaming on Prime Video.

83%

Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

93%Critic Score

76%Audience

76Metascore

8.7IMDb /10

84%Fan Score

Seasons: 5 · 40 episodes
Network: Prime Video
Cast: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty

Is The Boys worth watching?

Yes — The Boys earns a 83% Celluloid Score. Recommended, created by Eric Kripke and streaming on Prime Video.

Critics Consensus

Vicious, vulgar and razor-sharp — a superhero satire that kept its teeth for five seasons, with Antony Starr's Homelander among the great TV villains.
Celluloid Critics Consensus

What is The Boys about?

In a world where superheroes are corporate products — venal, celebrity-addled and lethally unaccountable — a ragtag crew of vigilantes wages asymmetric war on the god-like Homelander and the conglomerate that owns him, in a gleefully profane satire of power and fandom.

Critic Reviews

critic The Boys

The Boys Review: Superhero Satire With the Safety Off

★★★★☆ 4/5

Prime Video's The Boys weaponizes the superhero genre against itself, imagining caped icons as brand-managed celebrities and authoritarian monsters — a gleefully grotesque satire anchored by Antony Starr's terrifying Homelander.

Savage, filthy and sharper than it needs to be — a superhero deconstruction with real political teeth, if occasionally in love with its own excess.