The Boys Recap: Everything You Need To Remember Before The Premiere Of Season 3 On Prime Video

Amazon Prime Video premieres the third season of The Boys on Friday, June 3. Two years have passed since we saw the last episodes, so to refresh your memory we are going to review -with spoilers- everything that has happened in the previous seasons and what you should remember ahead of the release of the new episodes.

Since it premiered in 2019, The Boys has established itself as one of the best and most followed series on Amazon Prime Video, earning it several nominations, including an Emmy for best drama series and best screenplay. Created by Eric Kripke from the comics by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, the series takes place in a world where superheroes represent the dark side of celebrity and fame. To stop them, the group of vigilantes that gives the fiction its name emerges, willing to do everything possible to prevent them from continuing to harm society and abusing their power.

What Happened In The Boys Season 1

In the world of The Boys, superheroes are just another product of fame, almighty and unattainable beings who believe they are entitled to everything in exchange for saving the world from evil. Among all of them, The Seven stand out, the corporate image of Vaught, a large corporation that gives them publicity and controls them like puppets, some super-powerful, arrogant, self-centered, and elitist puppets.

The Seven are made up of A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) able to run at the speed of sound, Homelander (Antony Starr) the strongest and most fundamentalist of all, Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) impenetrable and gifted with enormous strength, Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) capable of fighting and resisting like a ninja, Translucent (Alex Hassel) who has the power to become invisible, Deep (Chace Crawford) endowed with the same qualities that a marine animal and superior resistance and Lamplighter (Shawn Ashmore) who has control of fire.

However, at the start of the series, Lamplighter retires from The Seven, leaving a vacancy to be filled by Annie (Erin Moriarty), aka Starlight. Since she was a child, she always wanted to rise to the top and use her power to help others, but once she is admitted to Olympus, she will discover how shallow and shady the superhero business is.

On the other side of the ring, we have the one who could stand out as the protagonist: Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid). He started as the collateral victim of superheroes and after his girlfriend was murdered, he decides to join Butcher (Karl Urban) to become part of The Boys, a group dedicated to hunting down these scoundrels and making them pay for the damage they cause. Carnicero is carried away by his deep contempt for superheroes and teams up with Maternal Milk (Laz Alonso) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and the later addition of Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) to get revenge on them once and for all.

Towards the end of the season, we will see how the true usefulness of Compound V is revealed. It seems that superheroes were not born as superheroes and that this compound was what transformed them into what they are now. We will also discover that Becca (Shantel VanSanten), Butcher’s wife, is still alive and that she decided to have Patriot’s child.

What Happened in The Boys Season 2

The second season was much more intense, violent, and bloody than the first. Vought wants his superheroes to be part of an army, and this change is closer than ever after they defeat terrorists with powers of their own making. However, The Seven suffer casualty after casualty, and after Deep’s resignation and Translucent’s death, they have been left virtually without members. It is then that Stormfront appears an ideal candidate to fill a vacant position.

Meanwhile, The Boys appear everywhere as the most wanted, and everyone who seemed to want to help them ends up having their heads explode. Hughie teams up with Annie to uncover Compound V, and the scandal seems to put Vought in a big bind. Patriota will take the opportunity to get close to his son and try to make him use his superpowers, something he seemed to not have until he had no choice but to use them to protect his mother. He will be the first person with powers who did not have to inject himself with Component V, but he has no intention of using them, at least not yet.

Gradually Stormfront begins to gain popularity among superheroes, and this will not please Patriot, although the anger will not last long. While investigating Stormfront’s past, the protagonists discover her links with Nazi Germany and that she was married to Vought himself, creator of the compound and founder of the company. Another of the great discoveries of this season will lead us to learn about the experiments carried out by Vought with Compound V, which is injected into certain people locked up in a psychiatric hospital to test them and check the different reactions.

In this season, we will also see Deep being helped by a Church to return to The Seven, Frenchie’s story or Maeve’s other life, among other things, but the really important thing is what happens to Starlight, who is discovered as the one who uncovered the Compound V scandal. The trial against Vought is celebrated for his misuse of the compound, but at the most opportune moment, the testimonies against him once again suffer a spontaneous explosion of the head, making it clear to the protagonists that the legal route will be insufficient to stop him to the enemy.

In the finale, we saw Stormfront go after Butcher and Becca, but eventually, Ryan used his powers to defend them, leaving Stormfront badly injured. However, Ryan’s laser beams will also hit her mother’s body and she will end up dying. When this happens, Butcher feels a lot of anger towards the boy but decides to keep his word and take care of him, defending him from Patriot in a final scene with Maeve, who appears promptly to help him. From then on, Bill will change the way he acts, and the rest of the members of The Boys will abandon the darkness that was inside them. Also, Hughie decides to go his own way and will leave the group at the end of the season.

In one of the last scenes of the second installment, we will discover that Victoria Neumann (Claudia Doumit), the anti-superhero congresswoman, has powers and that she has been the cause of the “spontaneous head explosions”. In the next season, we will find out if she is linked to Vought or if she will be a villain who has started her path.

What Do We Expect The Boys Season 3?

In the third season of the series, we hope to find answers to too many questions. One of them is the link between Victoria Neuman and Vought, the great cliffhanger of the second installment. She is supposed to be a congresswoman who is against superheroes, but after assassinating the leader of the Church to which the Deep belonged, it is not clear which side she belongs to.

In second place is Deep, who in the end does not return to The Seven, even though Maeve and Starlight do. On the other hand, Butcher is knackered after Becca’s death, and it will be interesting to see what he does with his life now, also having to take care of Ryan and manage his powers, something we saw in the first trailer. For his part, Patriota is increasingly losing his way, and when he finally seemed to have developed feelings for someone, everything ends up going wrong and he will be more unhinged than ever. Also, Stormfront may be still alive, and we do not know how important it will be in the new season.

The New Characters Of The Third Season

Among the most surprising novelties of  The Boys Season 3, the intervention of Jensen Ackles (Supernatural) in the series stands out, joining the cast to give life to Soldier Boy, an original superhero and a kind of version before Patriot. Kripke commented on the character that he “is kind of clumsy and subservient to Patriot” and that he “feels different because he’s from another time”.

Along with him, another of the new additions will be Laurie Holden (The Walking Dead), who will also appear in the new episodes as Crimson Countess, a character created as a kind of parody of Scarlet Witch. Finally, we will meet more characters, such as Gunpowder, who will be played by Sean Patrick Flanery, Supersonic, played by Miles Gaston Villanueva, and many other surprises.