Amazon Prime's
The Boys is one of this year's surprise hits, having already become
one of the most watched Amazon Original series. With
a second season greenlit before the first even premiered, there's now some hype and possibly pressure stemming from the show's popularity. And like most sophomore seasons, it looks like
The Boys will kick everything up a notch.
Speaking to Collider, producer Seth Rogen revealed the show's creators have been given more resources for Season 2. The result should be a bigger and better Season 2 that "organically grows" the scope of the show.
“They already have more resources for the second season. They’re adding more characters, the scope of the show organically grows as the show continues. We just watched, actually, the first episode of the second season this week. It was a wonderful thing as producers. This is way better than I ever could’ve hoped it would be.”
Fellow producer Steve Weintraub added that Season 2 is
"definitely better than the first season," adding that
"immediately, it just looks a bit better, feels bigger, the actors all know what they're doing."
Of course, it wasn't necessarily the special effects that made Season 1 so great — it was also the acting, made possible by seemingly perfect casting for the roles. Adding to Weintrabu's comment, Rogen pointed out that the returning cast now has a better sense of the overall tone of
The Boys.
“With a show like The Boys, especially, where the tone is so unique, for the actors to be able to watch the show and to see like, ‘Oh, that’s what it is.’ It allows them to come back completely locked into it.”
Season 2 of The Boys doesn't yet have a premiere date, but showrunner Erik Kripke has already started to tease some of the upcoming shenanigans. Kripke
recently posted a set photo, essentially confirming that Season 2 won't shy away from the gore. He previously added that he doesn't want the second season to just go bigger.
"I want it to go deeper," he said.
"A more intense, more insane, more wrenching, more character-driven season. It’s my one and only goal to make Season 2 even better than Season 1."
In a world where superheroes embrace the darker side of their massive celebrity and fame, The Boys centers on a group of vigilantes known informally as "the boys," who set out to take down corrupt superheroes with no more than blue collar grit and a willingness to fight dirty.
The Boys is now streaming on Amazon.