The way The Boys view superheroes and the way they project it onto the screen is really great. Gareth Ennis’s comic book series ;d taken on a whole new dimension to Amazon Prime. Butcher and I were in a good mood, especially as the filth on the outskirts of Vought, which became the Disney of superheroes, began to spill. To make the work even more absurd, the animated series Diabolical began telling Supes stories behind the scenes with short episodes.
The first season of the series consists of a total of eight episodes, each episode lasting about ten minutes. That will change with the second season. Simon Racioppa , executive director of Diabolical, explained the new season:
I think working with seven different writers early on led us to success. What we were trying to do was look at the world of The Boys from a different perspective by putting basic ideas into an unexpected shape. It was doing something you’d never seen before. Again, we didn’t want to do what Erik Kripke, the executive producer of The Boys, did on the main show. We wanted to do something different and weirder. I’m definitely talking about things you won’t see anywhere else. We can completely get it out of hand when we’re trying something. We can put it in a new form and style. We want to do the craziest things we can. We have an animated series and when it comes to animation, you can be much more creative than live shows.”
Although Racioppa praised their craziness in the first season, diabolical, which consisted of a short eight-part episode, was not so epic. … They probably realized it was a mistake to cut things so short. The second season is more pleasing with at least 20-minute episodes, and I’m hoping to see episodes that experience the absurdity of Boys. The Amazon Prime front has yet to officially confirm the second season of Diabolical.
