When you’re a fan of The Boys, then there is a good probability you had been thrown for a loop when The Boys Season 2 launched.
The Amazon Prime collection opted for a weekly rollout this yr, with three episodes launching on week one, adopted by new episodes weekly.
Followers have been largely unimpressed as a result of The Boys Season 1 dropped all episodes without delay, and given that there’s much less TV round than there was just a few months in the past, followers are on the lookout for extra content material.
In response to the weekly episodes, followers have review-bombed the collection, providing up a variety of one-star opinions to vent their frustration.
Eric Kripke responded to the followers in a artistic means … with an edited clip of the collection, that includes Homelander sifting by the opinions, and he isn’t impressed.
“Homelander has… emotions… concerning the 1 star opinions. (NEW EP TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT),” Kripke wrote on Twitter.
Homelander has… emotions… concerning the 1 star opinions. (NEW EP TONIGHT AT MIDNIGHT).#TheBoys #TheBoysTV @TheBoysTV @PrimeVideo #SPNFamily @antonystarr pic.twitter.com/Giz5sKvLWX
— Eric Kripke (@therealKripke) September 17, 2020
Kripke beforehand addressed the rollout plan in an interview with Collider, and famous that it was not a call from Amazon.
“The airing schedule got here truly once we had been fairly near being performed – most likely 3/4ths of the way in which by post-production,” he stated.
“For the file, it did not come from Amazon. It got here from the producers… we are the ones who pitched them.
“Lots of people over there have been truly reluctant as a result of it was a brand new concept, or they do not do it that always. We actually needed it and Amazon ended up agreeing that they’d give it a strive.”
Kripke defined that airing all episodes in airing all of the episodes in a single go, “it turns into a sugar rush of a binge,” which is smart.
Many exhibits that drop all episodes without delay are solely remembered for just a few weeks earlier than fading out till the following season comes out.
“I feel a bit of anticipation for the followers is wholesome,” he added.
The Boys streams new episodes Thursdays on Amazon.
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