The Boys Season 3 Episode 7 Review: A Delicious Appetizer Before The Finale
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 7 Review: After the Herogasm To date with an ending that promises to be euphemistically explosive, The Boys proves once and for all to have reached a degree of maturity nothing short of sensational, at least from our point of view. How many times in recent years have we noticed that in these moments the series tend to collapse? Whereby collapsing we mean a vast number of phenomena, from senseless stops to narrative – because perhaps the product had not been well planned and you didn’t know what to do with that minute – up to curl up on itself, continuously risking plot holes in a desperate attempt to surprise the viewer before the final act.
And curiously the seventh episode of the Amazon Prime Video series does all these things: he puts the handbrake a little to work hard on his protagonists and polish them for the decisive dance and, with a last stroke of the kidneys, he deeply amazes his audience. Where does the difference lie? In fact that The Boys achieves similar goals one by one with quality, precision and surgical execution. It may seem trivial, but these are aspects that make all the difference in the world and mark an abyss of quality with the median level of seriality.
The Boys Season 3 Episode 7 Review: The Story
Let’s go back to the narrative for a moment: Starlight (Erin Moriarty) has decided to take advantage of her immense popularity on social media to speak openly against Vought and Homelander in particular (Antony Starr), now forced to play dangerously on the defensive on several fronts; Butcher (Karl Urban) and Hughie (Jack Quaid) are forced to indulge more and more the obsessions of Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and his mission of revenge against his ex-teammates of the team Retaliation; Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) reunite with Marvin (Laz Alonso), hoping to find a way to stop Soldier Boy and figure out what to do following Butcher’s actual betrayal.
Now, the episode has a clear fil rouge, namely Soldier Boy’s pursuit of his dear old fellow soldier Mindstorm (Ryan Blakely), but wisely used as the central pivot of a chapter whose main purpose is to deepen even more characters and fix the board for next week. And where multiple productions would fail in their intent by proposing a boring and highly predictable episode, The Boys triumphs for the umpteenth time because it manages to intelligently mix the various ingredients and to give them the right dignity. Whether it is a journey into Butcher’s tormented psyche or a Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) who amazingly relives some of his memories, each segment has its space and a consequent extremely satisfying resolution, both in a positive and negative sense – it is amazing how The Boys manages to naturally mix violence and tenderness.
The Boys Season 3 Episode 7 Review And Analysis
Even the chase itself, at times perhaps a little too simplistic to be honest, in the end, the episode ends with a couple of thrilling sequences, for the comparisons it creates and for the devastating consequences they will have on the protagonists. A whole crowned finally by a rather particular plot twist, which will make fans of the comic turn up their noses but which in the economy of the series and the reworking it is carrying out is the perfect engine capable of bringing the boys to the final break, to that progressive annulment of morality which is the beating heart of The Boys and the pen of Garth Ennis.
The only drawback of an episode that is in many ways amazing is the now-classic endemic defect: Abyss (Chace Crawford) and A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) have no role in the events and touch the pathetic to see them a couple of minutes per episode to carry on their story a minimum. Too bad because they are storylines full of intriguing themes and potential, but this is equivalent to squandering them all and we wonder if at this point a spin-off would not have been better. That said, we are in total excitement as we await the last act of an exceptional season, so we’re running out of adjectives. We hope it is up to the rest and a sort of Marvel series syndrome does not arise here, due to the often-disastrous management of conclusions.
The Boys Season 3 Episode 7 Review: The Last Words
There was no better way to prepare for The Boys Season 3 ending than The Boys shunned in his third season. Where hundreds of TV series would have slowed down the pace unnecessarily in order not to reveal their cards or, on the contrary, tried to constantly upset the viewer, the Amazon production does all these things but with a unique naturalness and precision. The pace slows down to give more space to the drama without renouncing to tell crucial portions of the story, however, the huge plot twist at the end of the episode upsets the balance on the pitch but does not cause avoidable plot holes or retcons; all carried out in a way that borders on perfection, enclosed in the miraculous balance between ultraviolence and tenderness that The Boys shows off at every opportunity. We hope that the ending does not disappoint too.
