Boys: Diabolical Review: Here’s how Amazon’s spin really gets

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There is no neglect of The Boys’ blood. The show is full of laser eyes, boring bodies, ripped faces and exploding entrails everywhere. If anything limits violence, it could be the limitations of CGI and the practical effects needed to create such horrific scenes. The Boys: Diabolical, the new animated anthology series from Prime Video that takes place in the same universe, has no such resistance.

Like the parent show, each episode of Diabolical, in its own way, explores how the interaction with Vought Corporation and its compound V is a Faustian deal. Whether it’s helping raise a child to superstar or offering a V-infusion face cream to give people their best faces, Vought is a substitute for all corporations and their approach to money first and foremost to people. to do business – is seen as an irreparable evil. Diabolical sees this as an innate truth, and every 12-minute episode reveals how wrong it can be to work with a company.

This and really impressive feats of blood. If the gut-wrenching violence of The Boys has been mastered by something, it has been unleashed in an animated form, unrestricted by CGI budgets or something else. Each head leaves its full, bloody flag of a freak to fly. If you can’t swallow blood in your stomach, Diabolical can be difficult to swallow (and also what are you doing here?). Not all episodes end in gross gloom, as The Boys usually do. But suffice it to say that they get their horrible licking.

In light of this, here’s a warning about the grossest thing in every episode. It turns out that is not always what you think.

“Laser baby outside”

Laser babies send a laser out of their eyes as they sneeze, while scientists hide behind cover

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Returning to WB’s cartoons from the past, “Laser Baby” is a silent, goofy introduction to what the Diabolical tenor will be like: rooted in the history of animation and absolutely shocking. You can last almost half of the episode before someone really starts spilling their insides. But once they do – well, I guess just try to finish your lunch before halfway.

The roughest thing: Disgusting nod to “That’s all, people!” Looney Tunes label

“An animated short film in which angry men kill their parents”

One soup that holds another (the one that holds is

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Who else but Justin Royland of Rick and Morty could come up with such a title? If you are familiar with Royland’s sensitivity, you will immediately recognize them at work here (“Boobie Face” is one of the names here) along with almost every possible body fluid. Somehow none of this compares to the super, known as “Human Language”, which really just bothers me endlessly. Instantly raises the rating by half a bag.

The roughest thing: The muscular “human tongue” that, ironically, freezes bones

“I am your pusher”

The most directly based on the band’s comics, Garth Ennis’s head is strange. Of course, we have reached the highest levels of courage and blood – these are the boys of Garth Ennis from The Boys! – but the pace makes it feel icy compared to the mile-per-minute styles of An Animated Short. So as long as you don’t want to eat until the last pictures appear, you don’t feel as bad as the others.

The roughest thing: Close-ups of the Great Wide Wonder’s latest action and accompanying vomiting

Boyd in 3D

Written by Ilana Glaser (Broad City and The Afterparty), “Boyd in 3D” is surprisingly high-ranking, according to Boys. A tale of morality between two Normans who, with the help of some Compound V face cream, turn into superstars, the short ones give up harsh humor for a more depressing gut blow. There’s a bit at the end, but for the most part, this is the one you should include if you’re squeezing a 12-minute episode into your lunch break.

The roughest thing: When Kumail Nanjiani’s character asks how Mr. Boyd handles Compound V

BFFs

Awkwafina's boy character watches her clever kaka admire the hairpin

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Awkwafina voices a young girl who has and befriends sensible stool from Compound V. What more do we want from animated stories?

Your mileage may vary depending on this – you may be the type of person who is inherently disgusted with reasonable feces, who am I to judge – but if you can put up with this shit, then you’re clean for this episode . Probably one of the few TV episodes based on stool that is hard to eat.

The roughest thing: A sea of ​​anthropomorphized feces that can’t distract from all this

Nubian vs. Nubian

a bitch walking towards the camera with outstretched arms

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After the daughter of two black superheroes in an unstable marriage, “Nubian vs. Nubian” is another that enters more into the moral tale than into the war circle. There is certainly nasty violence (again: these are The Boys, this is the whole deal), but almost all the brutal things happen off screen.

The roughest thing: Watching a girl’s dreams … scatter

John and Sun Hee

Written by Andy Samberg, you can expect this to be filled with clever but risky humor. But instead, “John and Sun-Hee” mostly avoids blood, causing your stomach to shrink from the quiet, desperately sad situation we find old John (Randall Duck Kim, of The Matrix and John Wick) as he tries to cures his wife’s inoperable cancer. Director Steve Ying Chang An allows the delicate animation to paint a story that – although it has its violent moments – is the most melancholy chapter of The Boys to date.

The roughest thing: Technically homeless photo of body parts dotted in a hotel room. But the runner-up is Andy Samberg, who does that to us.

“One plus one equals two”

Homelander and his guide in a scene from The Boys: Diabolical

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Without spoiling anything: The last chapter of The Boys: Diabolical is about Homelander’s first foray into the field with Black Noir. Next to “Animated Short Film”, this is the most brutal head and certainly one of those who enjoy close-ups of parts of the body that slide.

The roughest thing: One of several dozen deaths during the mission; choose your poison.

All eight episodes of The Boys: Diabolical are now available in Prime Video.