The Boys on Amazon Prime
Review by Sarah Michelle
You know what’s fun? Finding out the body you have in your trunk was just unconscious and not dead. Poor, sweet Hughie is finding more and more about his inner strength, which honestly may just be a little bit of psychosis coming around.
We come back finding out that Billy is not FBI (shock, awe) and calls himself an independent contractor, this feels obviously more mercenary in this position, but the way he goes about it doesn’t quite match up, but we already knew that.
We meet Frenchie (Tomer Kapon), and a mysterious dark girl with ice blue eyes, just called Cherie. Apparently a job has gone wrong in the past causing some discord, but once he realizes it’s a superhero in the trunk and not something more interesting. Turns out Frenchie, is an amazing chemist that can be applied to weapon, torture and just plain fun, you never know where you will find sheer brilliance. There’s also an Agent Susan Raynor (Jennifer Esposito), who apparently Billy Butcher is an old “friend” of, you can figure out what type of friend it was. She has files on all the supes, question is why, what type of agent. I’m curious how this info will all come around.
Guess what, all the superheroes have microchips that are basically geolocators, so if they go missing, they are not found. But like everything else for a signal, it can be blocked in a few methods.
Now Translucence has diamond hard like skin (which also can go invisible) and they had to be creative to find a way to possibly disperse or at least remove the locator. But an unfortunate delay has been inserted, and let’s just say everyone gets a bit creative for all situations at hand.
There is a disappointed Make a Wish kid, and they actually point out that A-Train cannot do well without a script so maybe the previous comment I said about his script being off was on purpose. Maybe just a writers plot? If so, then bravo on points for both the writing and the acting.
Starlight meets yet another superhero (Black Noir played by Nathan Mitchell), and just gets snubbed. Finds out that the crime has been easily located by a team of nerds, and guess what, teams are formed because there is an upside of media and hashtags! WHAT! More heroes make more money in a team? That can’t explain why Marvel blew up my feed on every media app for Endgame’s release.
Of course the senator who threatened Compound V is found by The Deep at the bottom of the ocean, and it turns out that Madeline Styllwell wasn’t a murderer for someone trying to black mail the company. Homeland, the literal phrase for our hometown and what he is supposed to stand for, had taken matters into his own hands after hearing the blackmail.
She has also just had a child, and is lactating, which I feel is going to turn into something else, either that or just maybe a moment of a tv show trying to show it’s ok for a woman to be a mom at her job. They show an odd mix of her, both attempting motherhood, and yet doing despicable things for her company.
Whereas Starlight and The Deep have to team up, and easily stop a crime, only to immediately have cameras in their face, you can feel the sense of fraudulence building up inside her. A possible faked crime, with a teammate that forced himself upon her, and immediate taping afterwards?
Unfortunately, there is another female sexual abuse scenario that Starlight steps in on, probably because of her recent experience, but guess what….cover is blown. What happens with her position at the company?
The writing on this show really honestly makes you care about both sides, the villains and the possible heroes. Their emotions and confusion, and both lack of responsibility and the toll of too much responsibility. The graphics are amazing, and god bless Karl Urban, just forever and always. The reality it matches in today’s scenarios is spot on, and well done, as I’ve slugged through several TV shows who have tried to bring up the most recent “sensitive subjects” in their shows but with extremely poor writing and scenarios. It feels weird to be grateful for a show that finally points them out, in their darkness, with all their shadows.
“There are so many crazy things about what you just said”. Hughie’s statement feels so fitting about so many parts. Hughie’s father is played by Simon Pegg, while caring and adorable, also a bit of a sell out, but still panics that his son hasn’t been home in days.
It feels a little bit all over the board so far, but so was GOT, it was like an overload of info, try to keep up, but still massively addictive. I hope it holds this speed, and that it doesn’t whomp on the final season. Thanks GOT writers.
There is a Vought company event with senators, all coming to meet with Vought, discussing whether superheroes are meant to be government used. And at least the one main person she talked to was correct in the fact that if they fought for the US, instead of weapons, they are still controlled by Vought, and not like being controlled by the Government guarantees the right path anyway. But weapons can definitely be controlled, by the person who has them, whereas the supes cannot.
Let’s just say there is a superhero that is able to change their form, and is somehow able to provide evidence to sway the senators vote. The devil is in the details.
I hope you read my previous review, and remember what I said about Captain America in Civil War, because I said that before even seeing this episode. Shocking, right? Will seeing this episode make you reconsider his side?
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