Soldier Boy arrives in The Boys 3, but he is too much desired

Soldier Boy arrives in The Boys 3

The most irreverent series are those that, like it or not, increase the dose of excesses with each season, and the third year of The Boys is no exception. From 3 June on Amazon Prime Video, on a weekly basis, the (anti) superhero show remains one of the series we are most fond of but - unless a sensational recovery in the final episodes, not granted to the press - some cracks begin to show it . The story resumes a year after the fatal battle that left Stormfront mutilated: Butcher's boys have (almost) disbanded, the latter lives obsessed with finding the ultimate weapon capable of eliminating Patriot, who, in his once, he experiences a devastating crisis after suffering a significant drop in popularity for being the boyfriend of a Nazi fanatic. Hughie, "normal" partner of the brilliant Starlight, lives in its shadow and Breastmilk wears out in the past since the supe who exterminated his loved ones, Soldier Boy, became a recurring topic.

Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.| Transformed into trained monkeys, they dance and sing in reality and variety shows, they are judges and participants of talent, they act as influencers and advertise ridiculous products, slaves to engagement and market surveys that determine the script of their private lives. Among the outdated and disgraced supe are those who, literally, have become a freak, those who prostitute themselves via webcam and those who have sunk into the most squalid debauchery. Producers Eric Kripke, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen (who voluntarily carved out the vilest and most ridiculous cameo) & Co wallow in excesses, trying to come up with something ever more extreme, depraved, grotesque and provocative. They succeed very well, but it starts to get boring.

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For this third tranche they draw on the narrative line of the source - the comics of Garth Ennis - which explores addiction to potentiating drugs of the Boys, an expedient that for the purposes of the relentless struggle between them and the Seven can constitute a fundamental turning point. Karl Urban's Billy Butcher accent (original) is a little less awkward (he's an Australian trying to be a Londoner and sounds exactly like that) and the acting talent of pretty Erin Moriarty has remained as it was, that is rare. The third season is even more the year of Patriot, who in his path of emancipation does not realize that his captors - the bosses of Vought - were also the precious tormentors who contained his madness. More and more dissociated from reality, more and more megalomaniac, insecure and isolated, he exploits a (long) life in the limelight to return to the media an image built on an effective manipulation of the masses marked by "admirably sincere" outbursts, sentimental relationships fictitious that intoxicate fans without a (satisfying) love life of their own and the systematic clean sweep of its detractors.

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Antony Starr he is so good at staging Patriot / Homelander's mental imbalance that seeing the madness in his character's gaze is really uncomfortable. the splatter, but also a happy island for viewers reassured by the purity of their love and the reassuring innocence of the lethal killer. The problem with The Boys is that the chronicle of the personal worries of most of the characters of which they are of little interest: the exalted Butcher and the frustrated Hughie, but above all of Abyss / Deep and A-Train, disgraced (and more or less recovered) and now engrossed in the awareness of their fragility. For this reason Rogen & co exhume a new - actually old - group of supe: the predecessors of the current Seven, of which Black Noir was already part at the time of a forgotten war, the "dirty Vietnam" of the Supe during which Soldier Boy is mysteriously disappeared leaving that media void then filled by Patriot.

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The Boys gradually shifts attention to him, a sane, practical but equally boastful and disinterested version of lives of others plays by Jensen Ackles of Supernatura l (of which Kripke is the creator). Ackles is genetically programmed to exude charisma and that slightly paraculo charm that makes him discreetly captivating, net of the unmistakably villain qualities of his character. Soldier Boy suffers from post-traumatic stress and has suffered an unforgivable wrong that makes him a more than justified avenger; a bad person, but one that he tends to cheer for. The transition of the narrative core from Patriot to Soldier Boy, however, doesn't happen in the most thrilling and engaging of ways: much of the season stalled until he arrives and when it's time for the most anticipated moment - that inevitable and coveted clash - … The press previews stop. In those final episodes lurks the success or failure of this season, which out of five episodes out of six appears passing and not exactly exciting.