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What does peacetime look like forThe Boys?
Most of the third-season premiere is focused on answering that question.
In fact, much of Payback feels like the calm before the storm.
Much of the running time is focused on conversations and character work showing how everyones year has been going.
Hes introduced demonstrating a party trick, fucking a Barbie doll in front of a crowd of cheering fans.
But that visual pales compared to what happens next when Termite heads to the bedroom with his boyfriend.
But beyond the shock value, its a helpful subplot to illustrate the state of affairs with the Boys.
And because Hughie is Hughie, he doesnt question whats too good to be true.
Maybe Vought is fine tossing a few bad apples, but they can stop whenever it suits them.
Neuman is complicit in sweeping the first death of the episode under the rug.
Even his relationship is starting to wobble: hes growing visibly jealous of Annies ex-boyfriend Alex, a.k.a.
Supersonic, a supe pop star competing onAmerican Herofor a spot on the Seven.
Well, unless he goes on a rampage first.
But Homelander isnt good at stepping back.
At least he has the charred, barely alive Stormfront to vent to whenever he feels like it.
(Most people think he sacrificed himself in a nuclear meltdown.)
If something was powerful enough to kill him, could it kill Homelander too?
But what follows when Homelander stops by for a visit is even more intriguing.
For all Butchers fears of becoming his father, hes becoming a surprisingly good one himself.
Because itiswartime even if nobody wants to admit it.
As much baggage as Butcher and Homelander have, at least they can agree on that one idea.
But thats no fun for anyone.
Maybe it was never really there to begin with.
But the Fourth Reich is in my soul.
The Deep is promoting his ghostwritten bookDeeper, about his and Cassandras escape from the Church of the Collective.
Apparently, Malcolm Gladwell called him the next Leah Remini inThe New Yorker.
Im not totally sure what to think of Stormfronts return yet.
