Why The Boys, Amazon Prime superhero satire, is gaining new fans with every new season
- Fourth season of ‘vigilantes vs superheroes’ satire The Boys is the most popular yet, with its tight hold on today’s fast-moving pop culture
As the real world seems to get crazier, Amazon’s superhero satire The Boys just gets more popular.
Coincidence? Perhaps. The fourth season of the audacious series set in a society where superheroes are ingrained in every aspect of American life, and often not in a good way, is the most watched so far, according to Amazon.
The company’s internal data show 55 million viewers watched some portion of Season 4 of The Boys throughout the world in the 39 days after it premiered. The audience has increased 20 per cent compared with Season 3.
In the United States, The Boys – a title that refers to the band of vigilantes out to take down the out-of-control “supes” – has lodged in Nielsen’s top 10 streaming shows for four straight weeks since entering the list in June, with the entire series topping a billion minutes viewed each week.
The current batch of eight episodes is the second most-watched season of a TV series in Prime Video’s history, says Vernon Sanders, head of television at Amazon MGM Studios, which produces The Boys with Sony Pictures Television.