Listened to the Double Toasted season three (non spoiler) review today. I’ve listed out the main points. While there are no spoilers, it does discuss where characters and plot are going.
Season Three Overall:
They do go hard on political aspects. Leaning into the issues in the country today.
The violence isn't’ really shocking anymore, but the show still tries to lean into it via gore. The violence is becoming cruel and mean, even when it doesn’t have to be. Lots of causal murder this season, but no one seems upset by it anymore.
The show as a whole is moving into the comic storylines.
Things keep getting worse for the characters.
Every episode does end in some kind of cliffhanger.
Lot of nudity and sex.
The writing is great, even though things aren’t always well done.
Lots of things felt like a season four setup.
Season four should probably be the last, as everything has piled up so much, that it can’t go much farther.
Characters:
Soldier Boy:
He hates women.
Lots toxic masculinity.
He’s racist.
He’ll leave you alone, though. If you don’t bother him, he’ll probably leave you alone.
Described as a ‘frat boy’ who will insult you/be horrible to you - but doesn’t understand why you’re so mad about it.
You’ll probably not like him.
Homelander:
Now realizes that he is the most powerful person on the planet.
Becoming more unsure of himself and that has led him to become scarier than he’s ever been.
He’s unhinged and doesn’t care if he hurts people.
Slowly gaining power, because people are underestimating him. Everytime someone thinks they have him under control or have him where they want him - he surprises them.
A-Train:
Could do the right thing, but he’s still selfish.
He’s fame hungry.
He does come around for his community, but he messes it up.
Annie:
She’s leading this season.
Maeve:
She’s lonely and full of trauma.
She’s a wreck and does something this season that is surprising.
Butcher is a bad influence, which is worse.
Butcher knows she has issues, but he hurts and uses her.
The Deep:
Goes back to being a horrible character.
Just a pervert in regard to sea creatures.
Kissing Homelander’s ass the whole season.
Black Noir:
More background and story. It’s harsh.
He has more to do this season.
You might feel a bit for him. But he’s still a murder.
He’s one of the scariest characters on the show, but also the saddest.
Butcher:
He’s becoming more unlikeable and cruel.
He’s starting to bring people (who shouldn’t be involved) become involved.
He really wishes to kill Supes, and now is in the mind that all Supes should be killed.
The V he takes is basically a drug that may be hurting his judgment.
He’s a bad influence on everyone. And they should run.
Hughie:
Is slowly becoming like Butcher.
He treats Annie badly a lot of the time.
MM:
He has a great story arc this season and his tramua.
His wife’s new husband (Todd) is taking the daughter to Homelander rallies. That causes an issue, because Toddis taking the daughter to things he shouldn’t; MM is being painted as an absent dad by others.
Todd one inch ofrom being a white surprimist.
Frenchie and Kimiko:
They have a story, but the dangerous part isn’t totally needed.
They are the heart of the season.
We get peeks at Frenchie’s backstory, but it really isn’t a lot. We don’t know him any better at the end of the season.
It’s a lose subplot, but it really isn’t needed in the season. It does lead to something that deals with the major plot, but not enough to be needed.
It seemed like the writers have the two characters in a holding pattern for something down the road,
I read the Vanity Fair review of the first three episodes of The Boys. Here are the highlights. Warning:SPOILERSfollow.
Edit: Apparently this may have been a vague review for the season as a whole, as we didn’t see all of this develop in episodes 1-3.
SPOILERS!!!
- The season starts a year after the events of season two.
- Homelander has made the talk show rounds with his speech of not knowing who Stormfront was, taking time off to discover himself, etc.
- Vought has also done some damage control by rewriting and refilming Rise of the Seven to show that Homelander had no idea that Stormfront was a N’zi.
- Stormfront still has fans, Stormchasers, who hold violent rallies. They are becoming a force in the upcoming elections.
- The season will be looking at the way corporate media deploys Bipoc and other grounds by making some figureheads. And the way they can ‘support’ diversity without actually listening to those who raise concern or do anything regarding that concern.
- Kimiko & Frenchie (who the article calls her love interest - take from that what you will) work off the books for Mallory. Kimiko spends a lot time saving Frenchie, whose past comes back to haunt him. (The reviewer stated they found this plotline slow and wished more time had been spent on other things.)
-MM has retired, but he’s secretly researching supes. He and his wife are no longer together.
-Hughie works for the Federal Bureau of Superhero Affairs under Victoria Neuman, who got to where she in part by killing some of her opponents.
- Annie and Hughie are still together. She’s working inside Vought as a double agent for Hughie and the FBoS.
An entertainment reporter on Twitter is asking people for questions for the cast of The Boys. Most of the questions - like 9 out of 10 - are for Jensen Ackles. The rest seem to be for Karl Urban, Antony Starr, & Jack Quaid. So, if you can go to Twitter and spread some love for the rest of the cast.
