The Boys Season 3 Episode 6 Review: The Herogasm Arrives In A Screaming 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”]

And even the most anticipated chapter of The Boys Season 3 Episode 6 is now history, the most explicit episode of mainstream TV according to showrunner Eric Kripke. It hurts to repeat ourselves a little, but we cannot avoid considering it yet another show of strength in a series that in its third season is reaching unthinkable peaks of maturity, storytelling and creative freedom. Not so much for the transgressive or shocking factor, perhaps less disruptive than expected – and the first reactions to the Herogasm are proof of this – since basically, it is what Amazon production has always accustomed us to, only concentrated in a very dense way in a single location of a single episode.

It is the whole itself that is amazing, not to fall once again into tempting traps and in any case to carry forward the story he wants to tell head-on, without giving anyone discounts and with a spectacularity that, unfortunately, many if not too many series of the same vein can only admire from afar and, mind you, it’s not just a matter of mere explicit violence. This is the greatness of The Boys, which launches towards a season finale with infinite potential and with the feeling that the balance between the boys and the Supers is truly crumbling in irreversible ways.

The Boys Season 3 Episode 6 Story and Review

Let’s go back to the narrative for a moment: Hughie (Jack Quaid) and Butcher (Karl Urban) have teamed up with Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) to try to eliminate Patriot (Antony Starr) once and for all, but they must first help the ex-star of the Vought to take revenge on those who sold it to the Russians, first of all, his old teammates from the Rendezvous team; Starlight (Erin Moriarty) continues desperately to try to manage his own Patriot, now on the verge of a nervous breakdown and pathological insecurity due to the sudden rebirth from the dead of what is in affect her hero, her predecessor; in the background, Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) have to contend with Nina (Katia Winter), still eager to take revenge for the losses suffered during the boys’ trip overseas.

Now, in the opening, we talked about traps because, in many ways, the Herogasm was an exquisite and extraordinary trap, originally even released as a spin-off of the comic and only later incorporated into the main story. And this means that basically, it’s a story almost in its own right, a stand-alone adventure so to speak and, as such, The Boys could have reproduced it in these terms: an episode to remember, maybe even destined to become iconic but a bit ‘an end in itself, which did not move the narrative forward in the slightest except in marginal details – an aspect that, in a hot moment like the final rush of a season, would have been quite out of tune.

Instead, the series has reworked the Herogasm to make it fit perfectly and coherently into the main plot and, indeed, using it as a real springboard for the last two appointments; it is an episode that simply does not give up even a single component that made The Boys the colossus it is now. Masterfully choreographed fights that don’t skimp on violence and grandeur. They are present and not only, for fans of comics and some famous tables there will be a lot to enjoy, but it is also the only way we feel to express the majesty of some sequences. Insights into the characters with an increasingly raw and emotionally devastating analysis of their actions?

Absolutely yes, between a Hughie who becomes less and less human and a Marvin (Laz Alonso) still unable to manage his post-traumatic stress syndrome towards Soldier Boy – there is also more, but we will not spoil you – it makes up a sumptuous episode, which moves sinuously between the delicacy of certain scenes and dialogues to emotional and physical brutality as if it were the most natural thing in the world. The Boys is turning more and more into a pleasure to watch and, although the overly specious and futile handling of several secondary characters continues to seem to us its only real Achilles heel, it cannot be denied that with a season like this it is. placing at the top of the serial medium.

The Boys Season 3 Episode 6 Review: The Last Words

With the Herogasm The Boys reached still new qualitative heights. Not what the public expected, however, at least from a certain point of view: yes, the Herogasm is certainly a somewhat explicit episode, but it is nothing more than the freedom that the Amazon series has always enjoyed and to which we are now. accustomed; it is only concentrated in a single episode and a single location. The most extraordinary aspects, in our opinion, actually come from the rest, whether it be Hughie and Butcher’s descent into humanity or Marvin’s PTSD and Patriot’s chronic insecurity. Or even the fighting sequences to say the least exciting, which cannot fail to strike both fans of the series and comic book lovers, with tables that majestically come to life before their eyes. There is everything in this episode, which acts as a real springboard towards an ending that could definitively bring The Boys into the elite of seriality.