Cinepals - THE BOYS 4x2 REACTION & REVIEW! | Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty | Amazon Prime

Episode Date: June 13, 2024

The Boys is back with season 4! Starring Karl Urban (The Lord of The Rings Trilogy, Star Trek, Dredd) as Billy Butcher, Antony Starr (Banshee, Outrageous Fortune) as Homelander, Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games, Scream) as Hughie Campbell and Erin Moriarty as Starlight. Watch our cutdown reaction on YouTube at https://YouTube.com/@Cinepals or watch the full reaction on Patreon at https://Patreon.com/JabyKoay SOCIAL MEDIA ~CINEPALS~ Twitter & Instagram: @TheCinePals https://www.YouTube.com/@Cinepals ~JABY KOAY~ Twitter & Instagram: @JabyKoay ~ACHARA KIRK~ Twitter & Instagram: @AcharaKirk

Senna. Pals! We're continuing forward with the boys, season four, episode two. Here we go. Let me all I can do one thing right with the time I got left. Get Ryan safe. I can't do it without you. Yeah.

Please. Too fucking little butcher. Too fucking late. Come on. Come on. Frenzies. that's not what I was expecting at all wow I did the episode too I wasn't expecting that at all no I mean I don't know I guess I'm trying to look at it from MM's point of view which is like he's

he's being a little frustrating yeah he's been frustrating for sure and so I kind of get it but also I think maybe it's just because I'm generally a more forgiving person especially with my friends and stuff like that so I would be like okay fine you know But yeah, maybe he has reached the end of his rope. And he's just like, no, no more. Too little too late. I'm sorry, bro. I think that the fact that Butch saved them is like, you know, a little tip for tat.

All right, fine. I'll do you a solid. It wouldn't have been there without, if they would have all died if it wasn't for Butch. Butcher. Yeah, for Butcher. Sorry. Yeah. I've been saying that since season one.

And so it's like, I don't know. No. Okay. Whatever. I'm just saying, like, you know, you wouldn't be alive if it wasn't. for him. You kind of do owe him. That's true. And I think like his his mission to get Ryan away from Homelander is an honorable one. And obviously like he's got multiple reasons for doing it, but mostly because of his wife. Right. And I'm really glad that we got to see that,

that Ryan is not on board with all of this Homelander stuff. And like I think it's crucial to get him out now while he still has a conscience, while he still has empathy, while he still believes that humans, you know, are valuable. Yeah. But I'm afraid that the longer he stays with Homelander, at some point he's going to give in and be like, yeah, I believe everything that he believes, you know? Yeah. I mean, you know, you have that moment where Homelander took away the milkshake.

It's like, this is your punishment for having empathy towards humans. Yeah. You know, it's really conditioning him to believe that he shouldn't care for humans. Well, it would be easier, right? because he could be just more himself. And I think what Homelander says, I'm going to paraphrase, but like you can't feel bad for being yourself.

There is truth to that, right? It's like we all just want to be ourselves. We all just want to be able to fully express ourselves the way we feel. However, in his case, it's actually really dangerous. And so I would imagine that after some time, you might be like, you know what? Yeah.

you know, Homelander's right, Dad's right. I should just be able to express myself and not hold back and do whatever I want because these people don't matter. I am superior to them. And yeah, that's hard, but that's not right if you're going to live in the world with people.

I mean, you know, the show does a good job of showing you why MM feels the way he does, I suppose. You know, his perspective on things and how he's trying to just be in control. you saw the scene where he's getting reprimanded by the CIA and he's like you know he's feeling from the top down and so oftentimes in any work environment that's what happens it's like the person who is your manager that you kind of are frustrated with it's like you're dealing with their frustrations that are coming from their superior yeah oftentimes yeah and so he's trying to just like maintain control the little the little uh detail of him with all the post it notes all being perfectly lined up shows out just how much he's trying to control everything. And I think that, you know, Butcher was right with everything he said.

It's like, you know, you chose to save me rather than staying on task. And it's like he's trying to, he's accepting that he's not the leader anymore. And he's like, okay, if you're going to be the leader, these are the things you've got to understand. These are the protocols. And I thought that was kind of cool. I'm hoping that Butcher's not going to die. I feel like there's got to be something that, I don't know. Like, I feel like they're going to save him somehow.

this is all, you know, maybe I'm just spoiled from endgame, but like I feel like there's always the undo button. So here's the thing, right? So you didn't watch Gen V, but the whole thing with that, which they kind of mentioned in the first episode, was that they had developed a virus which can take out soups, right? And the whole thing they were saying was currently it's not strong enough

to take out Homelander. However, I'm wondering if maybe there's something, with that that might be able to help reverse engineer yeah yeah something something i don't know because like they dropped it in there and so i'm like no that's something percolating at the back of my mind and so maybe maybe it's something that can can help him out yeah at the end because like we don't want to lose but sure that would suck i feel like if you took him out of the show it's not worth watching it yeah the show's over yeah for me anyway it's almost like you know when i was watching Game of Thrones. If you killed Tyrion

Lannister, I would have stopped watching. He's my, he's my Tyrion Lannister of the show, even though the characters are totally different. Yeah. It's like, he's sort of my, I don't know if you want to call him my North Star of the show, but like, because he's, you know, he's just the most interesting character. He's super

interesting, and he's also like, he's been the leader of the boys. He's kind of like the face of the boys. Because I was watching the scene with Starlight and Huey. It was the first moment in the episode where I was like, I'm feeling critical towards the show because I was like, I don't,

I'm not enjoying this, this scene work, whatever it is, there's something about Starlight's character, I'm just not, I don't care about, you know what I mean? It's like, for the purposes of the show, cool, like I get, I understand the investment of time for that character in the plot, all that. And it makes sense to me, it's not lost on me. It's just that for whatever reason,

whether it's the writing of the dialogue, the performance, the humming and hawing of Starlight, I just don't care as much of, her as everything else going on. Sure. How did you feel? Like, I felt more impact with the scene with A-Train and his brother. Yes.

A character who, for all intents and purposes, I kind of despise, you know, I felt more impact from that than I did from Starlight having her come to Jesus moment, no pun intended. You don't like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I agree. I agree. I thought that the scene with A-Train was really interesting because we are getting a really nice

arc for him now, which I think has. been happening for a little while like he's he's kind of you know wanting to step away but he can't like he's in too deep now yeah and I think it's really important to him to kind of change the narrative I suppose because like he wants to be seen in a positive light he wants his nephews to look up to him and be that person that he says that he is but it's all lies it's all smoke and mirrors and it's fake and he's done a lot of bad in his life and so I can see him potentially maybe becoming an ally. Like, I don't know if he's going to, like, team up properly with the boys,

but he might do more similar things to what he did in this episode, which is, like, just kind of help out in small ways. I mean, the boys is ripe for the, for an instance of, you know, like the opening scene in X-Men where, X-Men, the animated show, you know, the opening, where you see, like, the X-Men running towards Magneto's team. and like a full out or like end game. I feel they're, you know, they've kind of like made jokes about that kind of stuff within the show where it's a movie within the show.

And it's like this epic post-apocalyptic looking destruction. The show is ripe for that though. It's like, you know, you choose your sides and the battle ensues and the city's leveled. Like it could totally happen. And they have yet to truly explore that within the show. If a train switches sides, that'll be interesting because that'll create tension between Starlight and A-Train, you know, and invariably, it beckons the possibility of, what's his name, noir, and maybe even deep, you know, reconsidering, you know,

because Homelander by himself could do so much damage. Yeah, true. And it would take a lot to stand up to him, you know, but I mean. Yeah, but like, does anyone have the guts, though? Do you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, it could go out quiet, you know, like, it could go out quiet with the poison, you know it could be a you know a scene inside of a room that's how one of the seasons ended i feel like at the news studio right um it might have been season three where it was just like a lot of this

intense stuff was just happening inside the news studio and it wasn't like a zach Snyder ending right what i mean and the show hasn't really done that it's it's not about that um you can't poison homelander though i think that's the whole point like even the virus can't take him out but i thought the whole thing is well i didn't see jenv but i thought the whole thing is that that's the goal sure Yeah, I mean, the virus was made to be able to control soups, I think. Yeah. Yeah, because then, like, otherwise, yeah, you're stuck in a situation like this where it's like, we've made this super strong, superhuman person.

And, yeah, we don't have a delete button. Yeah. I have to remark again about Anthony. Antony Star. Antony. Is it Antony? There's no H in his name. Well, I prefer the H.

Anthony Starr I got to commend him again because in the hands of a lesser talented person it's like the scenes could feel very samey Yes You know They could feel like we're just like retreading the same ground And he finds a way each time to like explore it

That feels fresh And I really dig that I mean it's not just him obviously There's like the director and the writer etc etc but I feel like he's really bringing a lot to the table Yeah he's taking a character that I think on paper might be

very unlikable but he's giving him so many layers and makes him so fascinating to watch because like I can see what he's doing on a human level you know like he's trying to relate to this boy that is his son and they're just holes apart

they're so different and he just doesn't get it you know he thinks that buying a milkshake is going to somehow soothe this young boy who literally just accidentally killed someone by clasping him on the side of a building like that's not that's not good enough yeah you know but he doesn't he doesn't know because he doesn't really know how to human exactly yeah

anyways you guys thanks so oh and once more i would love to see carl urban play james bond like i know it's not going to happen they've already chosen someone it's going to be um what's his name from the fall guy and kickass. Aaron Taylor Johnson. Yeah, him. He's got to be James Bond. As far as I know. Yeah. Aaron Taylor Johnson reads is quite young to me, even if he's not. And so I would love to see Carl Urban, someone like Carl Urban.

Because for me, James Bond has always been older than me. So, you know what I mean? We are getting older though, Jabby. At some point, I will be older than James Bond. And so, but nonetheless, like, Carl Urban embodies that like that, that manliness, the charm. Like, his accent, I suppose, would have to be different. And it can't be, like, what it is now.

Well, yeah, I mean, that's not even his real accent, though. What's his real accent? He's kiwi. So, okay, yeah, we'll fine. He wouldn't have to, he wouldn't be able to do, um, what's it called? He'd be a, he'd be a cockney bond. Yeah, it couldn't be cocknakes. That's what else, that's, I forgot the word.

It couldn't be cockney. Um, but I feel like he could totally pull it off. Oh, yeah. Um, and so, he's great. There's a whole host of people I can think of other than, Aaron Taylor Johnson to play that role, but just watching him here, I'm like, oh, man, he would have been great, you know? So, yeah, if it's not going to be Idris Elba.

You guys, thanks so much for hanging out. I'm Jabby Coy. This is Achara Kirk. Peace out.