“The Boys Season Three”
Genre: Action-drama, Dark Comedy & Crime Fiction
Released: June 3, 2022
Runtime: 55-70 mins
Streaming on: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, and Amazon Freevee
Rating: 10/10 Stars
The following review contains violent and unknown pill content which may be too intense for some readers. Viewers discretion is advised.
As Season 2 comes to a close. Season 3 of The Boys doesn’t just raise the stakes of the show it blows them to smithereens. Packed with unrelenting violence, biting satire, and a deeper exploration of power and corruption. This latest chapter of the TV series pushes its characters to their absolute limits while delivering some of the most shocking moments in the show’s history.
As the lines between heroes and villains grow deeper than ever, this season proves that The Boys aren’t afraid to go darker, bloodier, and more unhinged than ever before. With the showrunner Eric Kripke returning to structuring the third season of the show a response to incorrectly claims the show itself is just all violence, no substance, simply by addressing storylines that’ve been building from ground zero.
This latest installment of the series is sure to face consequences, choosing whether to leap off cliffs and vanquish internal demons before focusing on reality’s monsters quite frankly, the best the show has been so far. With this exciting new season, we get introduced to a new team of supe which go way back to when Vought was starting up. The name Team Payback. Payback is a team of supe founded in the 90s. A team of 7 supes who were rookies at the time consulting the members consist of The TNT Twins with Tommy being played by Jack Doolan and Tessa being played by Kristin Booth. Gunpowder is played by Sean Patrick Flanery, Black Noir is back being played by Nathan Mitchell, Crimson Countess is played by Laurie Holden, Swatto is played by Joel Labelle, and Mindstorm is played by Ryan Blakely. But one member of the team is the leader of the Soldier Boy being played by the special appearance of Jensen Ackles as the character.
Much like the comics with the same name “The Boys” created by Garth Ennis, Soldier Boy in the comics is not like the TV versions of the comics. Kripke mainly wanted to take a different approach with this character and make him a more dangerous supe than Homelander played by Anthony Starr. Soldier Boy in the show has more of a corrupted side and even has a darker side being captured and frozen for decades until being released one day after so many years.
Now that he has been released he is now going out for revenge on his former teammates. The group knows what Soldier Boy is capable of doing to all supes. This is why the group wants to use Soldier Boy to their advantage by destroying Homelander and shutting down Vought once and for all. But things don’t go as planned. With the start of the third season of the show, Vought has created yet another supe pill which is called Temp V allowing any normal person who takes this pill to become a supe for 24 hours.
This asks questions from the viewers who are watching the show. What will happen if Butcher played by Karl Urban, Campbell played by Jack Quaid, Mother’s Milk played by Laz Alonso, Frenchie played by Tomer Capone, and Kimiko played by Karen Fukuhara get their hands on this Temp V pill, will they use it to become supes long enough to even up the level when battling Homelander or will they take the fight to Vought?
Overall, The Boys Season 3 doesn’t just raise the stakes for the previous season of the show but it blows the viewer’s expectations to smithereens. Packed with unrelenting violence, biting satire, and a deeper exploration of power and corruption, the latest chapter in this TV show series.
