The Boys Season 3 Episode 4 Review: An Incredibly Tight And Exciting Episode!
Cast: Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott
Director: Philip Sgriccia, Stefan Schwartz, Frederick E.O
Streaming Platform: Amazon Prime Video
Filmyhype.com Ratings: 4.5/5 (four and a half stars) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]
The Boys Season 3 Episode 4 Review: The key word was balance, fundamental both in life and in any audiovisual production. As in the culinary world balance allows the creation of a dish in which each ingredient brings out itself and the others, so in a series, the various components must be balanced so that none suffocate the other. The Boys seems to have perfectly assimilated this lesson, producing in its third season perfect alchemy between the criticism of the excesses of capitalism, the violent and exquisitely exaggerated soul that has always distinguished it, and the human drama of the protagonists, forced to always review more often their moral boundaries and to discover how far they can go.
The Boys Season 3 Episode 4 Review and Analysis
This is The Boys, and the fourth episode is a very dense concentration of everything that made the series and the unforgettable comic by Garth Ennis great. Where especially the second season would have lengthened the times in certain situations and widened the mesh of the narrative, the new appointment with Butcher and associates instead prefers a continuous overwhelming the viewer with events, crazy fighting scenes, and small plot twists – some extremely predictable, others less.
After discovering the existence of an elusive weapon capable of eliminating even very powerful Super (The Boys Season 3 Episode 1-3 Review), Butcher (Karl Urban) and his boys just have to follow the sporadic traces to Russia, hoping to find and unleash the same fury on Patriot (Antony Starr) that put Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) out of the equation. Of course, things will never go according to plan even on the other side of the world, while on American soil Starlight (Erin Moriarty) must be strengthened and continue to live with a Patriot now totally out of control, resolved once and for all in wanting to take the reins of the entire Vought.
It is an episode divided neatly into two sections, which make masterful use of minutes – however considerable, we almost always wander around the full hour or so – without wasting anything: there is so much to say, so much to tell and then every single minute must be exploited. The result is an ensemble devoid of dead moments, which goes straight to the point avoiding getting lost in an empty, self-satisfied admiration of its greatness and, even more significantly, not giving up strong moments of introspection. Last week’s debut had already put us in front of the grueling moral choices made by the protagonists, from the desire to escape of Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and Frenchie (Tomer Kapon) to Butcher’s decision to take on temporary Compound V.
And now we see the consequences beautifully in all their difficulty, accompanied by at least a couple of action sequences once again out of their mind, albeit quite short – the oligarch set up that way we will hardly forget. Sequences that, moreover, manage not only to demonstrate for the umpteenth time how much creativity the production of The Boys has but even to raise the toll to pay for the war against the Super to unprecedented levels of drama.
Equally phenomenal remains the descent into the hell of Patriot’s tormented psyche, an element to tell the truth quite dangerous since the feeling was that it was getting a little too much to turn around the heart of the matter: bet on episodes where he continued to wave threats, to become more and more unstable, yet the turning point never seemed to come; a bit as if his evolution had stopped for a moment in limbo, now annihilated by his actions that further mark a point of no return. An amazing balance that, if maintained until the end of the season with this quality, could serenely set a standard in the panorama of superhero-themed productions. We sincerely hope it will happen because The Boys deserves similar achievements.
The Boys Season 3 Episode 4 Review: The Last Words
The Boys continues its triumphant third season, there is no better way to summarize the sensations that this fourth appointment has transmitted to us on Amazon Prime Video. An incredibly tight episode, which pushes away the ghosts of a narrative that tended to revolve around problems, which does not want to leave moments dead and framed once again by a couple of action sequences that, despite their brevity, will remain indelible. Creativity is at the power in the production of The Boys and this can always delight us. But it is an episode that does not forget the consequences of the choices that the protagonists made last week, which does not want to abandon the dramatically human nature of Butcher and his boys. A whole comes out of an almost miraculous equilibrium, which holds its various components together as you do until now. And we are only halfway through the season, in the hope that such a quality will hold up to the end.
