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Superhero shows have come a long way. From old time series of Superman and dynamic episodes of Batman and Robin, and the Green Hornet. Those television shows tried to inject some humour into the serious life of a superhero, but they never really succeeded to bring that humour across.\n\nZoom to the 21st century, and movies and television shows have been able to mix humour, action and topical news stories. Such examples of such a combination came in the form of The Avengers: Infinity War, Justice League and the Flash. One might even say that the visual effects of these movies have made it so easy to establish these movies, that it is no longer a serious thing to think up what special effects can be watched on the screen, small or large.\n\nOn this episode of the Friday Film Feature, Victor Reviews The Boys (2019), a superhero show that doesn\u2019t take itself so literally, and even makes fun of how commercialized superheroes have become.\n\nThe Boys stars Carl Urban, as a lowly human, in a world where superheroes are everywhere, and most are owned by a conglomerate known as VOD International. They\u2019ve been able to insert superheroes into every part of life, commercials to movies to lobbying for a position in the United States Army, but a few humans feel such an insertion is inherently dangerous, and these superheroes are running amok, and celebrity status has corrupted superheroes, to where any crimes they help with are mostly of their own making. The humans stand up for themselves, and try to put a check on these superheroes running rampant across the world with no rules to play by.\n\nWatch and listen to Victor\u2019s review of television shows, and movies that are released with description for the blind, and he lets you know if the feature is a grand watch, or something that should be left in the discount bin at your local video store.