By Danielle Ryan/March 3, 2022 7:55 pm EST
Streaming series creators Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have gotten away with putting a lot of insane material on the digital airwaves, but nothing has been quite as wild or shocking as their latest, “The Boys Presents: Diabolical.” The Prime Studios anthology series pushes the boundaries of animation and good taste, featuring stories by Rogen and Goldberg, Awkwafina, Garth Ennis, Andy Samberg, and more. Each self-contained short is unique from the others, though they are all entirely for adults-only.
At a roundtable interview attended by /Film, the creators of this hilarious, disgusting, and truly envelope-pushing anthology series revealed that they trusted their audiences to know what they were in for with a series tied to “The Boys,” and that when it came to being censored by the studio, there were surprisingly no problems at all.
At a roundtable interview attended by /Film, the creators of this hilarious, disgusting, and truly envelope-pushing anthology series revealed that they trusted their audiences to know what they were in for with a series tied to “The Boys,” and that when it came to being censored by the studio, there were surprisingly no problems at all.
‘We’ve never just been told that we can’t do something we want to do.’
“It’s true. We have sensibilities to some degree. Somewhere within us lies a limit that we do not cross. And that is the line that we abide by. But I think in general, we like to do things that we find exciting and interesting. And, and often that involves seeing what people’s limits for certain things are.”
That free reign is apparent in “The Boys Presents: Diabolical,” which features everything from a talking turd to a whole segment of angry superheroes with crummy powers killing their parents in increasingly horrifying ways for revenge. It’s great, and hopefully, Rogen and Goldberg can continue creating things while totally unleashed. Bless this chaos.
“I don’t think so. That hasn’t happened. There’s been some conversations where maybe they want to understand exactly how something’s going to be executed, but we’ve never just been told that we can’t do something we want to do.”
“The Boys Presents: Diabolical” premieres on Prime Video on March 4, 2022.
