Brockmire alum, Reina Hardesty, has become the third lead cast member of Amazon Prime Video’s college-set spinoff of The Boys to depart the series. She follows Aimee Carrero and Shane Paul McGhie who have also left. They were among the six leads that had initially been announced for the series roughly one year ago. The remaining cast members are Lizze Broadway, Jaz Sinclair, and Maddie Phillips. Sinclair’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina co-star, Chance Perdomo has been cast to replace McGhie.
Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters came aboard as the new showrunners on September 27, 2021. Since then, they have overhauled it, which led to Hardesty’s, Carrero’s, and McGhie’s departures. It is believed that Hardesty’s and Carrero’s characters are being retooled and they will also be recast.
Hardesty played Beth on the acclaimed IFC series Longmire and some may recognize her for playing Joss Mardon/Weather Witch on The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow. She has a movie, The Secret Art of Human Flight, on the way and is set to film another pilot, Maverick.
The program doesn’t have a name yet. It is based on the comic book characters The G-Men, a parody of the X-Men and ALL of that teams’ numerous spinoff teams. As gory and outrageous as The Boys TV show is, it doesn’t hold a candle to the comics. The G-Men storyline is just… all sex. There is NO WAY they will do that on the spinoff. It would literally be porn!
The spinoff has been compared to The Hunger Games so it sounds like the focus will be more on violence than sex. That’s already been the approach taken with The Boys anyway.
One The Boys spinoff, the comedic animated series, The Boys Presents: Diabolical arrived in March. That holds a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Its audience score is lower at 71% and similarly, its Metacritic score is 70%, so it seems like audiences were a little more mixed than critics.
But 70-71% is just average. (The audience RT score for the regular series is 84%.) That, plus the struggles behind the scenes of this G-Men spinoff, are giving me The Walking Dead vibes. That was another comic book-based show that received acclaim from both critics and viewers. Then its network, AMC, started pumping out spinoffs and audiences just weren’t there for them. The franchise as a whole was diluted and has sputtered out.
Hopefully, Amazon doesn’t milk The Boys to the point that the main series loses some of its steam and the whole thing comes crashing down.
But speaking of the main series, The Boys Season 3 is set to kick off on Amazon Prime Video on June 3, 2022, with three episodes. What do you think? Are you still looking forward to this spinoff?
