Getting It Right: The Carefully Calibrated VFX that Makes The Boys The Boys [Video]

Perhaps you’ve heard of Prime Video’s hit Emmy Award-winning series The Boys. Based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the series, developed by Eric Kripke, who also serves as an executive producer, recently completed its fourth season, with a fifth upcoming in 2026. The Boys is many things: a brilliant subversion of the superhero genre, a biting political satire, a tour de force of action filmmaking, a pitch-dark comedy, and a veritable gorefest of bloody violence, in which multiple exploding heads are but so many grace notes.

For Visual Effects Supervisor Stephan Fleet, who has been with the show from the beginning, the multi-faceted entity that is The Boyshas proved to be an often challenging, always engaging, and truly educational experience. While his specific duties include the rendering of such notable phenomena as flying sheep and human combustion, it’s often the less flamboyant effects that require the most innovative and …