Season 2 of Amazon Studios' The Boys was certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with a 97% rating. However, reviews on Amazon have been telling a different story.
Season 2 of The Boys debuted on Sept. 4, but fans have not been impressed with its release schedule. Therefore, viewers have been review-bombing the show’s Amazon rating, leaving it with an average score of 2.7 out of five stars.
The first season of The Boys released on Amazon Prime Video all at once, allowing fans to binge through the entire season in one sitting. However, Season 2 has adopted a different schedule. The first three episodes of the season were released on Friday, Sept. 4, while the remaining five episodes are expected to release on a weekly basis beginning Sept. 11. This new release schedule has irked some fans of the show who have expressed their grievances through The Boys' Amazon rating.
"This is 2020…. We don’t want staggered releases of episodes!!" one reviewer wrote. "What a shame, I was looking forward in watching it… now I’ll just skip it and wait for it to be cancelled, then I can watch them all without any interruptions."
Other reviewers have even threatened to cancel their Amazon Prime subscription and move onto other streaming services because of the staggered release schedule.
"NO FULL SEASON AVAILABLE?!?!?!?! I give up, where is my Netflix!" a viewer wrote.
"Not sure what moron decided this would be a good idea but it is the worst idea ever," wrote another reviewer. "For now I wait until the end of season and BINGE the way I prefer. If this trend continues into other shows i.e. Sneaky Pete I will cancel my prime subscription. And move on to Disney/Hulu and will just download my amazon series from other places."
Some reviews even go as far as to say the series deserves a five-star rating, but the release schedule makes it harder to rate higher than a one.
"Bingeing is like jumping into a lake from the mountain top and this stingy weekly episode thing is like sitting in a bathtub," one review reads. "Totally different experiences. Just to be clear, season-2 gets full 5 stars. But Amazon is now my public enemy no-1 for not dropping all the episodes at once. It feels like I am transported back to the dark middle ages, waiting for weekly episodes to arrive. I mean what do I do with all those snacks and food I got delivered to last for 12 hours? If only there was a way I could punish Amazon for this deception, oh yeah, barnes&noble, ebay, here I come..."
49 percent of reviewers gave The Boys a one-star rating on Amazon's customer review page, while 35 percent gave the show five out of five stars.
The even more intense, more insane season two finds The Boys on the run from the law, hunted by the Supes, and desperately trying to regroup and fight back against Vought. In hiding, Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) try to adjust to a new normal, with Butcher (Karl Urban) nowhere to be found. Meanwhile, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) must navigate her place in The Seven as Homelander (Antony Starr) sets his sights on taking complete control. His power is threatened with the addition of Stormfront (Aya Cash), a social-media-savvy new Supe, who has an agenda of her own. On top of that, the Supervillain threat takes center stage and makes waves as Vought seeks to capitalize on the nation’s paranoia.
Streaming now on Amazon Prime Video, The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as the Female, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander, Aya Cash as Stormfront and Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad. New episodes of Season 2 arrive Fridays.