Welcome to entertainment's Golden Age of Combustible Humanity. Nearly 40 years after the rudimentary head-popping pleasures of David Cronenberg'sScanners, technology has finally made it possible to depict the explosion of the human body in a variety of visceral forms and artists are taking advantage — from HBO Max's Raised by Wolves to the upcoming Katherine Langford feature Spontaneous, a dark comedy that appears to be entirely based on teens going kablooey.
And then there's Amazon's The Boys. Seriously, if the team behind The Boys put half the time and thought into plot, characterization and action that they put into finding different ways to blow people to kingdom come, it would truly be one of the best shows on TV.
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