Kripke's writing team is doing a splendid job finding more human reactions to explore versus the comic's all-in mentality on cartoonish "supe" malevolence. (Laz Alonso) trying to hold Butcher's Boys together despite his ruthless leader's best (or, I guess worst) efforts. Hughie (Jack Quaid) tees up a massive moral conflict as he tastes limitless power for once in his life. Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) experiences a harrowing realization as Butcher unleashes her for an assassination job like some caged animal. Whatever hesitations you might have about Butcher wading right back into the same hardass waters for more vengeance-fueled brawls, the characters around him elevate ongoing subplots. Welcome to another episode of Prime Video's most obscenely entertaining superhero program.Īlthough, I'd argue there are more significant storytelling victories in "Glorious Five Year Plan" amidst all the sex toy carnage and bloody dismemberment. The Boys still hasn’t disappointed in finding fresh and creative ways to blend pleasure and punishment in gleefully TV-MA ways. What else did we expect from a show that continually tries to one-up itself? As Vought International's marketing department might explain, sex sells - and as Trash from Return of the Living Dead would demand, sex and death are even better.
Between The Boys opening Season 3 with Termite graphically exploding through his lover's penis, the impending "Herogasm" in Episode 6, and the death by dildoes in "Glorious Five Year Plan," showrunner Eric Kripke's putting the "O" in "superhero" these days.