Welcome to the Heavy Spoilers show. I’m your host, Paul, and in this video, we’re breaking down The Boys.
The brand-new episode is now here, and we’re already halfway through Season 4. Things are heating up, and as always, this recap is going to cover everything you need to know. This includes all the comic callbacks, Marvel and DC Easter eggs, and everything we think is going to happen. So strap yourselves in and get ready because the boys are back in town.
THE BOYS SEASON 4 EPISODE 4 BREAKDOWN
Now, the opening sort of riffs off the homeboy character design we got for Ryan last week. Here though, we see Homelander’s costumes dated in 1987. There are lots of clear allusions to other costumes, with the yellow one being akin to the Sentry. There’s also red like something ripped out of Red Son. We then see the switch to the blue before finally getting the red and blue one. Still though, what’s missing is the cape, which would end up being the star and stripes. This was adopted by Homelander so Americans would relate to him more. It’s something that they also did when creating Superman. His catchphrase was, of course, Truth, Justice and the American Way, which debuted in 1942. This was used as a way to help rally the troops, with comics being used as a way to get citizens to sign up. Captain America was, of course, heavily based around that, and it’s with this I really started to get Homelander’s design. Though he’s, of course, a Superman parody, he’s also heavily based on Captain America. Even his dad was Soldier Boy, who was the ultimate parody, and it’s the cape that would go on to really make the man.
Now, this trip down memory lane also builds off the back of last week in which Homelander said he had to go home. The past and legacy are laced throughout this season, with both Butcher and Homie dealing with their age. Homelander is finding grey hairs, and Butcher is living on borrowed time, and now the pair are looking to the future in Ryan. However, we have to look at the past, and this will help us understand what’s going to happen in the future.
Things are going to be terrifying if Homelander wins, which we instantly get in this scene. Now though, it’s played as a comedic joke…yeah, there’s definitely tension right from the off. The security cameras are down and that ominous lift beeping, it all signals Homelander’s coming.
Honestly, I really think Anthony Starr deserves an Emmy because the guy completely kills it every week. He can be vulnerable, terrifying, friendly, and yeah, because of this range, you never know what’s going to happen.
Even when he’s being good, you don’t know if it’s for the right reasons. Is he doing it because he thinks that, or is he doing it because he’s toying with people? Is he doing it because it’s what’s good for PR, or is he playing the long game? There’s just a lot going on, and it adds so much tension to these scenes, which get more and more messed up as we go through them.
Now, this is where a lot of the most traumatic events in his childhood happened, and we’ve seen clips like this in the supplemental material. There are a couple of videos of him as a kid, but it’s clear that he was tortured. When watching this, I did wonder if it was playing off the dark side of things that often happens with child stars. Homelander was made into an icon, but there were a lot of messed-up things in his childhood. It’s been explored recently in stuff like the quiet on set, but these treatments go way back further than that. Even Michael Jackson was open about how tough his childhood was with his dad, and that’s clearly a theme in what made Homelander a star.
We know Vought presents everything like it’s a Disney show, but behind the scenes, it’s all labs and experiments. They’re trying to make the perfect person, but you can’t exactly make a perfect person.
If you’re making it, then it means you’re controlling it through force, which negates all of the positive aspects. This is why Homelander is so messed up because it all stems from how he was treated. He now sees humans as less than him because he wasn’t taught empathy as a child. Now, things did change with Ryan as he had more of a home life with his mother. He didn’t really have any friends though and was still ostracised to a controlled environment. Though it seemed more homely, it was still under Vought, which is why Homelander took him away from it. He wanted him to have a relationship with his dad, which is something he didn’t get to have. Even though Soldier Boy was a Supe himself, Homelander didn’t have a father figure. That’s why it’s ironic that he brings in a Fudgie the Whale cake as these are typically presented to dads.
They’re heavily tied in with Father’s Day, with Tom Carvel using that as a basis to create them. He envisioned the whale of a cake for a whale of a dad.
It’s basically store-bought homemade cake, which kinda sums up the fake image Homelander was given when he was made in a lab. If you’re reaching.
So, Homelander presenting this here kinda sums up that these people were his real parents. How he treats them…well…they get their just desserts, and thematically it plays into the show. Ryan’s rebelled against his dad too, and he might end up bringing him down. So we have people who are forced to act in a certain way turning against their parental figures, which may be something that repeats throughout the season.
Now, from here we cut to Butcher in the shower. It reminded me a lot of the opening of Apocalypse Now, with it being a reprieve from the time in between missions.
On his back, we see the snake-like disease that now courses through his blood, which was brought on by V24.
Now…gonna do a little theory…not a massive theory time…but I wonder if this thing can be removed.
It is running through his body and it seems like something out of Stranger Things.
Later on, it seems to trigger a reaction in which Butcher is able to tear Ezekiel apart. We don’t see exactly what happens, but yeah, it seems to give him the V24 strength back.
Maybe removing this can reverse or halt what’s going on, and hey, let me know below.
It might even work as a sort of Venom symbiote that triggers and then takes over his body. It’s possible that this could also be killing him and maybe V mutated into something else. This might still help him retain the powers and activate when he’s at his most vulnerable.
Now, originally, the series was planned for 5 seasons, but Kripke has since come out and walked that back. He’s said that there may be more which…hmmm I dunno if I’m that sure on. I kinda hope that they don’t milk it worse than Homelander and I’d rather get 5 great ones than just making them to make them. However, seeing that and then seeing this made me think about how they can extend Butcher’s life.
Either way, he once more sees a spectre of Becca. This is akin to the visions he had of his brother Lenny who appeared at the start of season 3. Episode 2 there had him appearing on the TV, and it’s clear these visions of the dead keep haunting Billy.
He pulls himself back from the brink, which is then reflected in Hughie’s dad. As we know, he had a DNR and we discover that he’s clinically brain-dead.
Staring at the drip, this sets off his path on the episode. This ends with him giving compound V to his dad. We close out with him being resuscitated, which has basis in the comics. Now I was expecting them to do the zombie stuff at some point but not like theeese….not like theeese.
So in the comics, right, sometimes when a Supe dies, they end up reanimating. Like as long as the brain isn’t destroyed.
But we see this in a couple of instances. The main one that most people know about is Lamplighter, however, it also happened with Nubia. Both were killed at different points and the V in their bodies supercharged their systems.
V continued to electrify their body and it continued to set off their nervous systems and reanimated their brains. Now, due to them dying, most of their brain cells had been completely wiped out. Because of this, they were left in a zombie-like state with most of their higher brain functions no longer working.
So all they could do was basically stagger around and mumble words and phrases. Lamplighter was locked away, and he basically just crawled around in his own faeces. Nubia was allowed to walk around the G-mansion, but she just kept muttering away about how she wanted to die. Now obviously you couldn’t have these kinds of heroes out and about as people would start asking questions.
So what Vought would do is come up with a cover story and kind of hold a big parade thing. This was touched upon in The Boys Presents: Diabolical when they did something similar.
Vought would say that the hero had to go off-world and fight an alien race or stop an invasion. Kinda like when the X-Men go off to fight the Shi’ar or something and yeah…was something that kept up the illusion.
What’s gonna happen with Hughie’s dad…no idea, mate, but I can imagine it’s gonna have dire consequences. There’s never been a good outcome from it in the comics, and I think Hughie will be punished for trying to play God.
Though his mother injected it, he’s the one who took the vial and was tempted to use it. He
did leave it in his pocket, but clearly, it set things up and allowed it to happen. I’m not blaming him per se, but Daphne even being close to that was dangerous and careless.
Butcher was warning him not to take that path, and I think next time we’ll see the outcome’s gonna suck. You’ll basically have a superpowered zombie running around, and I imagine he’s gonna unleash his anger on his ex-wife. Gonna be interesting to see how it goes, and yeah, bringing someone back from the dead never has a positive outcome.
Simon Pegg playing a zombie also is its own little callback as he, of course, was in Shaun of the Dead. Which is a great Easter egg.
Anyway, we’re skipping ahead there massively, but I know people are gonna wanna hear about the end. So that’s your ending explained out the way, mate.
Now after Hughie leaves, we see the V52 expo. I wonder if that 52 is a play on the New 52, which was a big reboot in DC Comics. Also, like I always wonder…should I call it DC Comics ‘cos then it’s like Detective Comics Comics. Anyway, I believe this will be a big event that happens in the series, with these commercials often teasing what’s to come. We, of course, had Vought on Ice, so this could be setting up a major event in the series. They’re also gonna show the A-Train movie, which we got the filming of last week. This Blind Side parody stars Will Ferrell and it whitewashes his past to have him as his coach.
Next, we cut to the whole truth with Tek Knight, which first debuted during Gen-V. In the comics, Tek Knight was a Batman parody who ended up getting a brain tumour. This made him want to f every hole he saw, which is something brought across to the show. There, he was a Sherlock Holmes parody who ran a true crime series.
The commercial for this is reporting on the massacre at the end of Gen-V, which was blamed on Marie and her mates. It talks about how they’ve disappeared into a dark hole, and we left them at the end of season 1 trapped in what appeared to be a Vought hospital. Slash prison. They’re currently filming season 2 right now, and I wonder if this season will tease their escape.
Calling them behind the massacre the truth is, of course, a lie as well, and it shows how Vought are running spin to cover for Sam and Cate. The pair were saved by Homelander at the end of Gen-V, who showed up to the school and then took down Marie.
Now we then see Cameron Coleman reporting on how Robert Singer wants to push further Supe legislation that will stop them operating freely.
This is akin to things in the comics like the Superhuman Registration Act, which was a big thing Civil War was built around.
Edgar, of course, wanted the Supes in the army ever since the 80s, even though it was immediately a failure.
As a Brit mate…as a Brit watching this, I did wonder if it was a play on the gun control debate that we often see in America. I’m sure my US watchers have a better idea about it, but as an outsider, that’s kind of what it seems like a metaphor for. The Left are often accused of wanting to take away guns, which works as a metaphor for how Singer wants to shut down the Supes.
At least to me anyway.
The Right are standing up against this, whereas the Left want to make sure it goes through. This is represented in Annie, who wants to rally her followers to make sure it gets pushed through. It’s kind of both sides using their PR and network to galvanise the people, which eventually always leads to escalation. One side holds protests; the other side has to match it, and then the other side has to outdo them. I think this season is teasing a big war between the people who are all following the direction of the Supes.
Annie knows this as well, which is why she’s suiting up and returning to her position as Starlight.
Really interesting way to discuss PR and spin and how people will manipulate their followers to get what they want. I know a lot of people are saying the show has lost its balance and that it’s going after the right pretty heavily. I think that they’re also showing the left can do it too though, and yeah, obviously it’s a big talking point, so let me know your thoughts below.
Now from here, we cut to Frenchie and Colin, with the latter playing his father’s Ray Charles records. As we know, Frenchie killed his family while he was working for Little Nina. We discover that Colin’s mother was a judge who was gonna throw the book at her. This is why Frenchie was used as an assassin, which is something he clearly regrets. We learn Colin hid under the bed and noticed the scars on the killer’s ankles. Obviously…obviously he was gonna spot them on Frenchie at some point, and the truth ends up coming out later on.
THE BOYS SEASON 4 EPISODE 4 EASTER EGGS AND HOMELANDER ELEVATOR SCENE
Cutting to Annie, we see Firecracker’s gonna host a show outside her HQ. Last week, someone showed up looking for the kids, and this will further weaponise her followers against her.
They’re weaponising social media and algorithms to find the fringe people who’ll fall in line, and then they’ll have an anti-Annie army. However, you make a deal with the devil, then it’s gonna backfire. Firecracker says she thought Sage was uppity but then refers to her as one of the good ones. It showcases the racist side within her, and I sage latest relishes in her getting her arse beat.
The show goes live, and it’s manipulating the image of Annie helping at-risk teens to be something sinister. Firecracker also mentions Kanye West, with this being a nod to how he’s aligned with people that Firecracker’s based off, like Nick Fuentes.
Mother’s Milk arrives wearing a Big Pun t-shirt building off the back of how he always wears hip-hop acts.
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Annie isn’t too happy Butcher’s back with the boys, but she quickly realises she needs to fight dirty.
We also get a return of Ezekiel, who appeared during Season 1. Ezekiel used to be part of Capes for Christ, and he returns later on in the entry.
He basically goes on about how Annie has 9 letters, and upside down, that’s a 6, and then how the rest of her name has two sixes in it. I dunno, reminds me of that speech about how Monster Energy drink was the mark of the devil thing. There are a lot of conspiracy theories about the number 666 being connected to the devil when a lot of versions of the Bible actually have it as 616.
Anyway, it really shows the combination of church and state, which has really come into play over the last couple of years. If you’ve watched Dune, then you’ll know how dangerous that can be because people are more open to manipulation if they think something’s God’s will. It’s why so many politicians these days weaponise religion, as it gets their followers to believe they share the same fundamental values. It isn’t always the case though and yeah, it’s definitely not when it comes to Firecracker.
Need to get away from all these politics anyway man…need something more light-hearted.
What’s Homelander up to?
Ah, nice little game of throwing paper in the bin. Nice.
Now again, Anthony Starr mate, even I get scared watching these scenes, and we see him recounting his childhood. Constricted to an oven for testing, we really get it laid out why Homie’s the way he is. He wasn’t shown any humanity, and now he’s come to dish out justice.
This humanity being absent is also constantly shown in him correcting his name. They try and call him John to appeal to him, but he says over and over that his name’s Homelander. John was the name given to him by the lab, but Homelander is who he really became.
Now, we did a big breakdown on The Matrix recently and talked about the usage of names in that. All the freed minds go by their chosen names because they’d escaped the slavery of the Matrix. This is why it stings more when Smith constantly says Mr Anderson. These characters chose their own identity because they managed to escape from the bondage of their past.
Now, this, of course, riffed off slavery and how people were often forced to take certain names. Muhammad Ali famously changed his name from Cassius Clay because he said that he didn’t choose it and said it was a slave name.
I kinda feel like Homelander insisting they call him that also shows his detachment from John. John was the name they gave him, and they even created a fake childhood. This is something we saw in Season 1 when we visited his fake home.
Now, going from John to Homelander could also show him stepping away from humanity.
We see markings on the wall which so his height and age. Slowly they go from John to then becoming The Homelander with John being scribbled out. Slowly he transformed into this with that John being pushed away and replaced by this monster. The Homelander was also the original name in the comics, but they ended up dropping the The.
Just the Facebook it’s cleaner
He talks about how he remembers that day with it being burned into him…literally. The lab guy Frank though, he doesn’t remember, and I think it’s something we can all relate to. We’ve all had those things said to us that stick with us throughout our lives. Some people say they don’t hit the thumbs up, and I remember it forever.
There’ll be stuff I’ve said to people I’ll not remember that will have really left an imprint on them. It’s what makes this scene so relatable, and ultimately I think most people will root for Homelander here.
So yeah, lots of subtext to it, and this entire scene is about getting revenge.
Vought, of course, came from the Nazis, with them also experimenting on children. It’s clear they’re giving nods to that as they constantly excuse it as just doing their jobs.
It’s akin to the excuse they were just following orders and such a deeply layered scene. Like, obviously Homelander’s the bad guy, but straight up, I’m glad he was taking out these guys. I think it’s what makes The Boys so complicated and again why he’s such a good villain.
Now with Kimiko and Hughie, we see as they meet with A-Train. Hughie wants the V and in turn he’ll forgive him of his sins. This idea of forgiveness, of course, builds off the prior one in which Homelander said he forgave those in the lab. Forgiveness is a funny thing in this world, with it often leading to more issues.
Either way, Shining Light arrive and we start to learn more about Kimiko’s past. Forgiveness here too acts as a theme with the past being something they then have to dive into. It turns out Kimiko kidnapped the mysterious woman and got her into Shining Light. This was how she got the scars, and eventually, she was forced to train too. It shows Kimiko’s not an innocent person and kind of riffs off the Homelander arc. The people in the lab also made a monster who’s now come back to seek retribution. This has happened with Kimiko too, with her past now coming back to haunt her.
This idea of forgiveness is also showcased in Colin and Frenchie and also Mother’s Milk and Billy.
Billy entrusts Milk with getting him away from Homelander, and it really makes you wonder if Billy’s gonna make it out of the season.
He also mentions Web Weaver, who we know from the wiki is an upcoming character in the show. No idea who that is as they aren’t in the comics, but I’m guessing it’s gonna be a Spider-Man parody. His picture is also Terror, his dog, who he had a cookie jar of last week. Terror is from the comics, with him being more of a mainstay there.
Now they expose Firecracker’s past, and it’s something that we often see with figures who levy accusations. Those accusing people of outlandish things are often said to do so because they’re hiding it themselves.
Honestly, I have felt like the…”we’ll expose you by posting your dirty secrets on the internet” thing with The Boys has become a bit played out. They tend to do it a lot, and I was like…right right, this again. That’s why I was actually surprised that Firecracker called their bluff and she ended up pressing tweet herself. She’s well aware that we live in a world of tribalism where people will stay loyal if they approach it in the right way.
Nobody is budging from their side because it’s all devolved into a cult-like mentality. So even though Firecracker is accusing Starlight of being what she’s guilty of, people don’t care because they’re so against the other side.
It’s something that’s been discussed a lot in social studies with it being really apparent now.
The first time I remember coming across it was with the Murray Head song “Say It Ain’t So Joe.”
Murray said that he watched a documentary on Richard Nixon which had exposed everything about him. Still, though, his followers stayed loyal to him and even in the face of evidence just couldn’t accept it.
The documentary then discussed a scandal in the ’20s which happened with Shoeless Joe Jackson. Jackson had taken a bribe to lose in the World Series, which was eventually exposed. His fans still hung around the stadium though and they chanted “Say, it ain’t so Joe.”
Unfortunately, it’s something I think affects a lot of people, and when you idolise someone, it’s difficult to remove them from that pedestal. Someone can be seen as convicted, and other people can see them as being unjustly persecuted.
Firecracker knows this, and she instead uses the opportunity to throw dirt on Starlight’s name. We learn she accidentally blinded a hostage once, which makes her seem like the bad guy. Even though what Firecracker did was waaay worse, her followers now leap at the new opportunity. They don’t even question why Firecracker’s only exposing it now as it’s just been held back as a trump card in case something bad came out.
Really good social commentary, I thought.
Colin reacts to this, and it clearly weighs on Frenchie. He too has things from his past, and these skeletons in the closet are gonna get dug up.
A-Train then goes to Homelander’s room, where he discovers some strange things. Firstly is Storefront’s hair, which…yeah, last week we talked about how we think he might clone her. I dunno if that’s the case, but it could be used to study why it is that she didn’t age. He’s desperate to not get old and yeah, the secret could be there.
Now, it’s also possible it’s just a memento, and we see he still keeps Stillwell’s breast milk. Probably more likely that, but these theory times bump up the video.
Caught by Ashley, we learn she’s had a poo in his toilet as a way to get him back. It’s a stalemate, it’s a stalemate.
Back with Homelander, he asks Marty to forgive him, with him trying to play out how nice he was. However, Homelander remembers the pain he put him through with Big Brother always watching. This is, of course, a nod to 1984 with the authoritarian state watching over all.
Homelander didn’t really have any privacy, and he was embarrassed by Marty. It shows the abuse of power that often occurs in systems and how people can often be cruel to people they don’t need to be nice to.
Forcing the guy to…get demonetised on YouTube…he makes everyone replay the cruelty they dealt out on him and yeah, pretty messed up, squirt.
These overly tense scenes are also balanced perfectly with the action ones we get with Kimiko and Hughie. I felt like this episode is one of the best ones they’ve done with it being really tense throughout. Filled with gore too, yeah, there’s a lot of stuff in this I’m gonna remember.
Now from here, we cut across to Frenchie investigating Firecracker’s trailer.
In it, he discovers tablets which say Metoclopramide.
Now these are a real drug with Google saying the following:
Metoclopramide is a dopamine receptor antagonist and has been approved by the FDA to treat nausea and vomiting in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease or diabetic gastroparesis by increasing gastric motility. It is also used to control nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients.
So yeah, might be something they dig into down the line. Our Editor Matt said it was skin infection medication and I’ll be honest mate, the screeners we watched it on couldn’t quite make out the text, we’ve failed you but let us know below.
The idea of diving into someone’s medical history is then reflected in a report by Firecracker, where she reveals Annie had an abortion. It’s, of course, a really hot topic, especially in the US. Extremely personal, we see Annie’s struggle with it and yeah, it has greater repercussions.
Because Annie’s a Christian Supe, this will obviously annoy some of her base and embolden Firecracker’s further.
It leads to Annie fighting her on stage while Ezekiel comes across Frenchie.
His powers are, of course, based around the likes of Reed Richards, with him being able to extend certain parts of his body. Butcher ends up freezing his arm, and he breaks it into a million pieces. Not sure if fire extinguishers can do that, but yeah, Annie losing her cool is a PR nightmare. It’s exactly what Firecracker wanted, and the attack is shown worldwide.
Revisiting his room with the woman in charge of it all, we learn she was the final key piece. Vogelbaum and Edgar had a hand in it too, and we hear how she was there as well.
This included his birth, in which he lasered his way out of his mother.
THE BOYS SEASON 4 EPISODE 4 ENDING EXPLAINED AND REVIEW
This is a sort of nod to the comics, as this is how Becky died. Quick note, Becca is called Becky in the comics.
Anyway, Homelander raped Becky, and eventually, this produced a child. The baby lasered his way out of her body, and eventually Butcher beat it to death. This was given a nod to in the first season with the baby who could shoot lasers out of its eyes. Becca also had her stomach being heated up, but Ryan didn’t burst out like a Xenomorph.
However, we learn Homelander did with his umbilical cord, which is a nod to the comics. She said she was scared of him and that Homelander could’ve broken out at any point. Homelander’s ego is what held him back, as he wanted constant approval. Psychologists were brought in to brainwash him, and now his need for love is what holds him back.
Around the room, we have mementos of the women in his life who he’s lost.
Now though Maeve’s still alive, he thinks she’s dead. Maeve was who Homelander was dating before season 1, and we learned he killed a guy who he suspected of dating her. Along with her sword, we also have Stillwell’s breast milk and all that’s left of Stormfront.
Maeve’s sword is a big nod to something in the comics, as before she died she used it on him. However, due to it just being a prop, it instantly snapped and didn’t have an effect. This was before he killed her whereas in the show they faked her death.
These mementos remind him of his failures, and he leaves his quote-unquote mother a memento of her failures at the end.
Even though the relationships with women haven’t worked out, he’s now seeking the love of his son.
That’s something I’ve always loved about the character because he’s so complicated. He’s the strongest man on earth, but his weakness is something we all share.
Now with Frenchie and Colin, the former admits the truth after showing his ankle.
He has a chance to kill him, which Frenchie even begs for, but Colin can’t bring himself to do it. Whether that’s gonna lead to forgiveness or not we don’t know, but yeah, it carries on that theme.
Cutting back to the Seven Tower, we can still see it’s under construction from Season 3. We then go to Sage, and I love how her room is filled with books like her one back home.
We get another scene with The Deep and Sage, kinda building off the back of last week.
She basically needs a lobotomy to allow her to switch off, and this will turn off the disgust she has for The Deep. Bit of a weird kink, but who am I to judge. The scene was a bit difficult to watch, mate, but hey, whatever gets you to that point.
Closing out on some food again, we then cut to Neumann, who’s playing up Starlight’s attack. Vought, of course, owns both the right and left, and they’re using all arms to shut stuff down. The Supe bill won’t pass anymore, and Singer can no longer associate with her. She’s been cancelled, and it’s one of the lowest points we’ve seen the character at.
Meeting A-Train, Hughie gets the V, with him clearly regretting killing that guy. You could see it in his face, but he doesn’t want anyone hurt anymore. We learn Butcher took someone at one point, and it didn’t end up working. It’s not a fix-all miracle cure, and all it’s gonna do is make matters worse.
We close out with Hughie’s dad waking up and Homelander leaving Barbara in his room.
It’s filled with the bodies of the workers so she can remain there to reflect on what it is she did. These deaths are really on her hands because she created a monster. If she’d shown kindness, then maybe this wouldn’t have happened, but this lack of humanity has led to this. In this room, Homelander had his darkest thoughts, and he spent the most traumatic days of his life here. That trauma has now come full circle, with those who inflicted it having to experience it. It really shows that the formative years of our childhood are what go on to make us.
Now whereas Homelander has become this, it also shows there’s still hope for Ryan. He’s been shown kindness and love, and there may be a way to break him free. Becca was his mother, whereas Homelander’s mother here was a monster. They had a three-person parenthood with Vogelbaum and Edgar as well. I don’t think this three-person structure is a coincidence either, as Butcher, Homelander, and Becca fit that for Ryan.
So yeah, it kinda spells things out, and it’s a perfect way to close out the episode. Homelander will likely now go and inflict the pain he received on the rest of humanity, but we at least now understand his motivations.
It really helped to flesh that all out, and we didn’t even need flashbacks.
It perfectly showed us why he is the way he is purely just through character interactions. It’s really creative when they pull that off and yeah, such a good way to take the series. I did think the first three episodes were kind of more of the same, and though they were good, I thought we were just kind of going through the motions a bit.
However, this episode really knocked it out of the park for me and completely explained why everything’s the way it is. This idea of forgiveness was shown in so many arcs, with lots of characters having to tackle it. Kimiko, Frenchie, Starlight, Homelander…it all kind of built off the same theme.
We also had some great action as well, and yeah, for the midpoint of the series, it was a strong way to go.
Who knows how things are playing out from here, but yeah, definitely leave all your thoughts below.
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