Prime Video’s hit series “The Boys” keeps getting bigger, bloodier, and wilder, not that we are complaining. With season three now in full swing and numbers skyrocketing, it’s no surprise that the series has just been renewed for another season.
The ultra-violent series follows a team of corrupt superheroes who abuse their powers and a group of vigilantes who have set out to take them down.
The series is based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s best-selling comic of the same name and follows a group of superheroes labeled “The Seven,” which Vought International runs. Behind their friendly faces, they are, in reality, shallow celebrity types who get away with a lot of unspeakably corrupt acts.
Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, and Colby Minifie are returning. This season we will also be introduced to several new characters, including “Supernatural” star Jensen Ackles (“Supernatural”) as Soldier Boy, Nick Wechsler‘s (Revenge) Blue Hawk, and Laurie Holden (“The Walking Dead”) as Crimson Countess, Miles Gaston Villanueva (Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders) as Supersonic, Sean Patrick Flannery (Dexter) as Gunpowder, Katia Winter (Sleepy Hollow) as Little Nina, Kristin Booth (“Orphan Black”), and Jack Doolan (Marcella) as Tessa and Tommy, the TNT Twins.
In a statement, Amazon had this to say:
“Over the first three days of its third season, the worldwide audience for ‘The Boys’ has grown by 17% from Season 2, and 234% from Season 1.”
“From our first conversation with Eric Kripke and the creative team about Season Three, we knew the show was continuing to get even bolder — an impressive feat considering the wild success of the Emmy-nominated second season,” Vernon Sanders, head of global television, Amazon Studios said. “’ The Boys’ continues to push boundaries in storytelling while also being relentlessly entertaining and threading the needle on social satire that feels all too real. This stylized world of the series has incredible global reach and the viewership for opening weekend is proof of that. We are immensely proud of the cast and crew that has spawned a franchise for Prime Video, and we look forward to bringing more of ‘The Boys’ to our customers.”
