The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: The Boys Season 3, Episode 2 - "The Only Man In The Sky" Review!!

Episode Date: June 3, 2022

BUTCHER GETS POWERS & VS GUN POWDER! The Boys S3, Ep 2 Reaction & Review Today. While the Boys investigate Soldier Boy's death, Hughie visits Red River, an orphanage for superpowered children, Frenchie and Kimiko confront Crimson Countess, Soldier Boy's widow, and Butcher confronts Soldier Boy's sidekick Gunpowder and is injured in the ensuing gunfight... Meanwhile, in preparation for his annual birthday celebration in the evening, Homelander pressures his new co-captain Starlight to act deferential toward him... Here's our REVIEW of Episode 2! REACTION HIGHLIGHTS on YouTube & FULL LENGTH (Sync-Up) WATCH ALONGS at Patreon.com/TheReelRejects!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-reel-rejects/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to our season 3, episode 2, recap review, breakdown, et cetera, for the boys. The only man in the sky is the name of this episode. And, hey, Homelander's doing it. great he's uh he's being real nice to everybody he's well adjusted and uh and you know the boys butcher and uh you know hewi everybody everyone's just doing good and they all sit back and they hang out and they laugh a lot and and yeah it's a pretty low key episode but yes reaction highlights are over at our youtube channel for season three of the boys youtube dot com slash the real rejects episode

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That season, something else. Yeah, man, oof. Something else. The no bullshit season. Absolute vodka. Hmm? Huh? Did you say something?

I love this show. It is pretty great. It is pretty great. It's pretty unsettling. But great. Yes, I mean, it's one of my favorite shows ever made. It's definitely one of, like, my all-time favorite shows. I love everything they're doing.

There's not, I don't know, a single complaint thus far. I really don't. I think, like, I watched season one and two a couple months ago, and then to come back here, and I just love where we've, I think it's I don't know if they took into consideration how people were kind of responsive to the first three episodes of season two initially because I think that actually works really strong when you watch it immediately after season one and this feels like a sequel season as opposed to picking up moments later and just everything that are just flipping so much around and they're they're getting past the bullshit of like prolonged buildup it's like just enough buildup because we've had so so much buildup with Homelander already revealing himself to the public of who and what he really is. Like, he does have this thwarted ideology of himself and what he is, that he does have this own, like, self-grandios, godlike image that he thinks, he fancies himself to be, you know, while also knowing that he is just a child at heart, this broken child. So exposing that and then going after Vot, the people of that control him, it's like he got pushed to this point.

And you'd think Stan Edgar would get to a point where he would realize that. Or like, yeah, maybe I'm pushing this a little too harsh. Yeah, this is at least a volatile, even if I have leverage and control to some degree over him, this is a volatile substance and dealing with liable to snap and do something horrible at any moment. Because he's seen Homeland or many times. times already go I don't want to listen and everyone's name that I'm blanking on I can't remember Elizabeth Shue's character name oh it's the one name I can't remember golly ah it'll come to me it's right there oh yeah what is her name can't remember

I can almost I can almost taste it I forget I forget what it is in the heat of the moment I'll look up later but I remember it's Elizabeth Shoe but even with Elizabeth Chu, the one who had the most influence over him, he would rebel against her. And she had to, like, do all kinds of things just to keep him happy, you know? And you'd think that Stan Edgar would have a little bit of foresight to be like, maybe I need not push as far as not all of Stan Eggers' fault. Like, really, obviously, the tipping point is the death of Stormfront, a woman who he, like, clearly loved.

But I think that's such a great starting point for this season because it's so not just a physical thing whatsoever. Like even destroyed, obliterated, he's still, it's always been this emotional comfort, you know, like even though she's all messed up in her own little at-home hospital bed. Yeah. She's, he still, like, gets off on her and he still connects to her, still loves her. So to be that heartbroken and then just to get to this fucking point, you know, like, every doesn't matter anymore. Like, it just doesn't matter. That does the, the one last person alive. Yeah. Who he thought accepted him. Yeah. Who could maybe get through to him in some way.

And so, yeah, to be at the push of the breaking point, Just mind-blowing. He's got just like great scenes here because he's just beginning slowly stripped down over the course of the last three seasons and then to kick it off here where you know like that that scene where he convinces that girl to at least the way they they edit it. He could have done a little something. He could do like a little Hulk clap thing. Create some type of force. Generate power. There's things that Homelander could have done to push her. But I could see it that he just forced her to jump. And that is a that was like. such a great scene and it's like a such a messed up twisted scene but so well-written so well-performed Anthony Starr is brilliant and the way they've been carrying over mother's milk Marvin storyline because they hinted at it he had scenes on that road trip moment when we're uncovering who Stormfront is in season two where he unveils his past about his dad and then now bringing it to this point where he's been trying to let it go but the thing that kept him motivated to take down soups was always that

core memory of losing his father and i like what they're doing with him because he he's always been so uh they pointed out in season two he's he's so OCD that's a big part of him and he's always the one in the group who seems to be the most in control of him himself and the most level-headed yeah sure he could lose his cool and whatever but he you know he knows to ground himself back to center faster than everyone else and then to have him here where he is he's just lost it he's losing it he can't control himself yeah and then i have the flip with the wife uh now support him when the past couple seasons it's been never supportive of this path it's i don't know i'm really i'm really

digging it a lot but john there's so much to impact uh newman egger Starlight, take it away, John. Sure, yeah. No, I've been loving the season thus far as well. I think they've got a really nice gradual pace. And I think one of the things about that, I mean, everything you just said, absolutely. And then, you know, with Huey and Newman and Starlight,

you know, we saw the ads and we're like, oh, damn, like, that thing he said in this episode about, you know, I thought that we could do it the legit way and we can't. We have to do it your way, butcher. You know, I remember people be like, oh, it's kind of like, you know, kind of a review. feeling scene to show, even though we know it's going to get to that point, and then to have that be, like, a moment from pretty early on is just one of those earmarks, and I'm like,

okay, good, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, because one thing I've admired thus far about this season is that they don't, they don't dilly-dally with, you know, breaking some kind of advancement in terms of the stakes or the tension, or if there's a secret, or if there is some kind of sensitive situation or piece of information, it's going to come to a head, and we are not going to draw out that tension. We're going to walk right into that conflict. And so yeah, I think they do nicely in this show to make it not as much

like, yeah, there are big reveals and there are these big moments that are really distinct and unsettling. But it's also about how to deal with those in an ever-unfolding situation where it's like you can't just make one split decision and now we know and now we've got to take out

Newman. It's like, I got to, Huey has to maintain his cover. And Starlight also has this weird sort of and forth where she thinks she's in a position to do some actual good within the system but is also working outside the system against the system and so yeah i think there's a lot that's going to become very fascinating about that because not only are they good at yes like subverting everything we know about soups but they're also good at kind of surprising you with different nuances and things and i feel like there's certainly more of that ahead for newman there's probably

more to that than meets the eye and they're also just really great at drawing out those really circumstances, finally getting that glimpse in of like, okay, she was essentially, not exactly per his admission, but essentially adopted by Stan Eger and made into his pseudo-daughter. And now, you know, even though that relationship seems like there is something legitimate in there, it's also clearly like a power structural arrangement as well. It's like Jack Nicholson and Matt Damon in the department. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's that stuff, I think that they do really nicely to blend the things that are so crazy and high concept than with the things that are all too familiar to how just, you know, trouble and deceit and conniving, you know, movers in society operate.

And so, yeah, I think the way that they've managed to take that sort of, oh, shit moment of the end of the season of like, oh, damn, it's the last season of, damn, it's Newman. Huey's walking right into the lion's den. I think they've done nicely to walk around in that and to make it clear that that situation is going to explode, but there's other stuff in the foreground happening first. And I think that makes a nice kind of rounded thing with everything to do with Soldier Boy over here that has felt like, yeah, it's what Butcher the boys are doing,

but now it's finally converging with Huey's story and Huey's dealings with Newman. And you have to assume that there's probably some kind of deeper connection maybe between her and soldier boy or those situations might overlap in some way. Like, they're good at making this machine or this, you know, they're good at laying out a story in a way that feels very alive and feels like there's so many different moving parts. And it is, you know, this sort of strange and unnerving, just world that you're plopped into. And I think the acting has been top-notch.

And, yeah, just the way they've advanced the story so far has felt really smooth and really graceful from the start of the season to hear and i hope beyond i think i mean if i were to quickly gather a prediction of soldier boys that i imagine they couldn't control him yeah so they had to freeze him yeah because they can't actually kill him yeah and i love the buildup they're doing on that too is because we have seen images of him in the promos and we have seen footage of him within universe thus far. But of all the things to have building the most gradually, I love that they're taking their time with that because it does, you know, it hypes you up for like, when are we going to really get Jensen Ackles in with everybody? But also, I think for the story, it really nicely

balances out with everything else they've chosen to do. Yeah, there's a lot of great things they're doing here. And I think especially with Butcher, what this see is kind of what I felt with the trailers. And I feel like this episode just solidifies it that much more is that For many in this season, it's breaking point season. This is everyone's breaking point. You know, like early on, Huey is now, like, I can't do this anymore. I broke the jam. I broke the jam.

This is the point now. This is the point where I have to embrace the path that Butcher always went forward because clearly there's no way to move forward with things. Butcher doing something he would never do. And now he's taking B-24. so that way he can you know go up against the soups I also think that scene that action scene was really tense you don't really get action scenes like that in the boys and I remember in season two there's like one with Kimiko and her brother on the street that didn't have music

and they just let it really sit in the tension but nothing quite like this or um where you got to you get to visually realize this almost dead shot meets wanted uh like type of uh gun-foo fight scene and not really gun-few but a gunfight scene and I thought that was just so tension-filled and didn't rely on on music or hyper-kinetic camera work throughout except for that one really cool shot where they revealed it where he he does the domino effect of where the bullet will bounce to which was scary like how do you fight this guy yeah you know and it seemed like you know it works off sound so that's why I had like you had to throw him off his senses by doing that which that was great so um yeah i thought like that was awesome and butcher being pushed to the point where

you know he's listening to that audio with ryan and and you know hearing becca's voice and going and i believed him when he was like this is it and so much it's such a great flip because they they are constantly flipping things because hughy's constantly like we can't do this i don't want to be a part of this we got to get out of this and then butcher is reeling him back in all the time and then now here um butcher's like i'm ready to put this away and hughy reels him in yeah so it's a cool switcheroo of what they're they're messing with the dynamics a lot yeah there's a lot of great twists on the different motivations and the different ways characters approach the situations everyone's kind of on opposite terms yeah i really love this uh i think what they're doing this direction is

solid the supersonic stuff is fine like i'm not really imagine it's going to amount to something more interesting hopefully they the boys usually satisfies me in that direction when i'm like it's whatever um it's fine and uh this the thing that was really surprising to me is todd with the black wife or the black girlfriend you know yes because clearly they're they're making the play on and like i know the people involved you can see them on social media and their political opinions are very much out there they're very vocal uh what they think and uh yeah you know It's like to have this, the person, because a homelander still is associated with stormfront while his speech was not directly about, you know, the stormfront point of views.

Yeah. It's definitely going to be feeding into the crowd. You can see the potential for radicalization. So it's a perfectly eerie moment, just eerie enough when it's like, damn, that's, that guy's helping raise MMSs, daughter, that's not good at all. Well, the influence is superheroes to just anyone with like a celebrity power position. Yeah, you know? Yeah, a lot of influence.

It's crazy. It's crazy stuff. I think this is a really potent season so far. And we've only just begun. That's the crazy part to me. Like, it's just the beginning. Absolutely. And they're introducing these payback players and, of course, going to get the Jensen Ackles thing over time. And they already got so much else going on.

on, you know. Yeah, well, and it's one, it's one rare example, I think, of a season that starts, you know, every now and again, Shulbs will do that where it's like, okay, this time all of our main ensemble are kind of scattered around. Some of them are together, but some of them are, you know, often different corners, and it's not the kind of situation where I'm like, come on, just get them back together already. Like, everything is still interesting regardless of who's where, on which team working how right now. I don't think they needed to release this three at a time.

I know. I'm like, each one of these is so fun. It's so satisfying. It's so great individually. And they feel so well-rounded, yeah. It's because the show premiered when at first debut all at once. So they are stuck with a certain level of, we have to. We've got to do something.

We got to do some type of binge, don't we? Here's the first three. There's the first three. Because that's a crisp number. Even though I thought the first one was, like, wonderful. It was wonderful. And it didn't feel. incomplete. Like, I don't feel, like, or season two, I get the feeling of, no, you kind of need to

watch the first three. Yeah, and then the table is set. Yeah. Both of these ones, yeah, I've been sitting here going, I can't wait to come back next week. And, like, it's cool not to have to for these first few, but I feel like, yeah, they have really found a way to make it very nicely episodic while also very engrossingly binge-worthy. Yeah, this is, this is wonderful stuff. I'm really, I'm really digging it a lot and I'm more thoroughly satisfied. Great so far. What do you guys think? Leave your thoughts down below and we will talk with you all soon.

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