Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) is an ordinary guy who works at an electronics store. He's walking down the street with his girlfriend when she is vaporized when A-Train (this setting's version of The Flash) accidently runs into her. A-Train is a member of the Seven (think Justice League), which is owned by Vought International. Vought offer to pay Hughie for Robin's death as long as he signs a non-disclosure agreement. He declines. Enter Billy Butcher (Karl Urban). Billy seeks to recruit Hughie in his vigilante efforts against Supers. Vought is just a marketing and PR firm that makes the Supers look like heroes when they are, in truth, more like villains. Hughie agrees and goes way down this rabbit hole.
Meanwhile, Annie January (Erin Moriarty) is a small time superhero named Starlight who works in Iowa. When a slot opens in the Seven, she applies. To her amazement, she is accepted! She has hardly entered the citadel of the Seven when her naivety is pounded into the dirt when another superhero has his way with her. But things get worse as her heroics become scripted and she is excoriated for rescuing a woman from rape while out of costume. Most of the Seven have lost their idealism, if they ever had it.
Madelyn Stillwell (Elisabeth Shue) is a VP for Vought and in charge of the Seven. She treats the heroes as products that require branding and marketing. She has a strange relationship with Homelander (Antony Starr), leader of the Seven. He is clearly obsessed with her and jealous of her newborn. Homelander is an ultra-dark version of Superman, having no qualms about killing criminals or even non-criminals who present a threat to his interests. However, he can be charming, which makes him all the more creepy.
Great series and highly recommended. However, it is extremely violent, painting rooms with blood on more than one occasion.
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