The Boys on Amazon Prime
Review by Sarah Michelle
The episode I’ve been waiting for! Has anyone else been watching the clips that Amazon released advertising this? Well this one is about the Female, which is what I’ve been waiting for. If you’re going to call a tv show “The Boys”, then you’re going to have to have somewhere “The Girls”, or in this case “The Female”.
Sadly, we get an awful tiny flashback of why Billy Butcher is so obsessed with the Superheroes, looks like he was married before. The end of this wife, we don’t know, but you see her looking scared in a surveillance video that Butcher has.
And guess what, that agent from before? Is actually Deputy Director Susan Raynor, which explains why she would have files. Butcher (I call him Billy, but should really call him Butcher, like the boys do) goes to tell her about the Compound V, and is trying to upsell the fact that if you put them in the military, what happens then? Oh my, this tv show is about making a deal with the devil at every corner.
The Boys are still trying to get their hands on actual Compound V, as we know, they’re holding it over Popclaw. Now bribing is one thing, but when your source only has half the answers, that doesn’t work out. But when there is a small Asian girl in a cage, you just have to be a little bit curious, on why she’s there, in an underground drug smuggling area, well you have to be curious and let her out. Oh, and the chaos she causes is glorious (some men just want to watch the world burn, eh?). Can you blame her, when it turns out they’ve been dosed with Compound V for who knows how long, and she just wants to find her way home in the most awful way possible and Frenchie shows some of his history.
I hate it when a show always tries to group all of one kind together, different sides, all that blah blah. There are mixed grounds people, always.
Will this one sided cliche always be applied to every scenario?Â
Apparently a hijacked plane is the answer to Vought’s government problem, Queen Maeve as her normal response, sighs and rolls her eyes. She’s still my favorite, and of course Homelander jumps the gun a bit, and Maeve is just not ok with the final choice. Oh Homelander, what a giant fraud you are, and that hurts as it’s our own home. But Maeve is showing that two sided war face, when you are on one side and it is doing terrible things, claiming they are the right thing.
The Deep it turns out is more messed up from his communication with any water creatures, he wants to take care of them, but is ignored, might explain the douchebag side of him at least a tiny bit, it’s not an excuse, but it is a waterfall effect. He maybe takes some personal actions and you may want to skip this episode for anything animal related. And poor, poor Starlight, wants that super normal life, almost like someone who hasn’t experienced anything, who reveals a secret about Translucent that causes a small regret. Poor Hughie, hates having to lie to the nice girl, and it sucks when she really is nice, and he is also suffering from some major PTSD of everything.
Ah gawd, you find out the history of Mallory, and a little bit of the history of The Boys and it hurts even a little more, all while trying to find The Female. I can’t wait to find out more about all of them, and this is something you feel every episode.
Unfortunately A-Train gets to her first, but Frenchie is smart in the way to stop him, unfortunately, his belief is a bit off course and he gets gassed as a result of his of is “What if she’s a Spice Girl?” moment.
Basically, everyone loses in this episode, it just depends on where your morals are for who loss more. Including the people believing in The Seven, The Seven, The Boys, the people on the plane, the animals, or even ones going to an upcoming expo.
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