The Boys

The Boys – Payback

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It’s been awhile since I sat down and watched The Boys. A few minutes into Third Season premiere reminds me why. I’ll admit, the show works as gritty fun of awful people doing awful things to each other, but it’s hard for me to stay invested in a show that doesn’t have a single likeable character. Following the events of the previous season, Hughie (Jack Quaid) has a desk job and is now running Butcher (Karl Urban) and The Boys, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) is offered a major promotion, and Homelander (Antony Starr) is still in damage control mode for dating a Nazi. 

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The Boys – Proper Preparation and Planning

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The Boys - Proper Preparation and Planning television review

In an episode more notable for its creepy subplots, “Proper Preparation and Planning” does explain why the season premiere didn’t fill us in on Butcher‘s (Karl Urban) discovery at the end of last season. Apparently, there was nothing to tell. He saw Becca (Shantel VanSanten) and her son before being whisked away by Homelander (Antony Starr) who has apparently agreed to let Butcher live if Becca gives the psychotic pseudo-hero access to his son. Becca’s flight response is in overdrive, but she is trapped in the Vought compound by a company too scared to piss off Homelander by relocating her again. Becca isn’t the only woman pressured by a super-powered dick in the episode as A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) returns to fuck with Starlight (Erin Moriarty), especially once he notices her working on something shady behind the scenes.

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The Boys – The Big Ride

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The Boys - The Big Ride television review

The first episode of the show’s Second Season gets us caught up on some, although certainly not all, of the fallout from Season One. Vought throws a public funeral for Translucent under the narrative he was killed by super terrorists (helping bolster support for supes within the military). Noticeable by his absence, until the final minute of the episode, is Butcher (Karl Urban) leaving us to wonder about his recent family reunion and where he’s been as the rest of the Boys have been hiding underground. Despite some mistrust issues, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) has agreed to help Hughie‘s (Jack Quaid) expose Vought, although he begins to have second thoughts given the group’s recent run-in with the CIA. Hughie’s refusal to be completely honest with with Annie doesn’t go unremarked.

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