It's truly a noteworthy event when studios bring superheores off the page and truly do something different with them. Now, while it's not the first time a superhero has said "fuck" on screen, there's something special when you hear it multiple times and doubly so when it's in a property that is based on a title that used to have "Teen" in it.
Titans really has done everything it can to establish itself as a show aimed at adult fans of comic books rather than the traditional pg13 approach. In the second episode of the fledgling show, Alan Ritchson's Hawk swears at a Deadpool-esque clip, with none of the tongue-in-cheekiness of Ryan Reynold's anti-hero.
The violence isn't toned down for the tender-hearted either. While the action is so far more infrequent than you'd expect in a show like this, it's pretty brutal when it happens. This too is welcome, at least for this fan.
While I decry the coming wave of streaming services that will one day force viewers to forgo any notion of a shared television culture, the DC service has at least managed to start by offering something that rivals Netflix's success with most of its Marvel properties. Solid story, brutal action, written and acted well. It's not Game of Thrones but it's solid superhero entertainment.
Is it worth the price of the subscription? Only a fan will be willing to pay anyhow, so that's a call only an individual fan can make. Offering a couple of original live actioners and a couple of new cartoons (granted, fans like me would pay a premium just for the next season of Young Justice) alongside a bunch of DC related reruns has yet to prove to be a winning formula, but if they keep the price low-ish it might fly. For me I hope it runs well, 'cuz I do like the first thing I've seen from it.
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