The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: The Boys Season 3, Episode 3 - "Barbary Coast" Review!!

Episode Date: June 5, 2022

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Anyway, yeah, I won't put me in a mood. I can, why? How? What mood? I feel affected by it. The other ones have left me more like, I'm jazzed. And this one goes, it's really interesting when you do the comparison of the release of season two and season three with the three episodes. Yeah.

Where season two was like, building, building, crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You should be when it gets there, it's worth it. And then this was like, crazy, crazy. And this starts off crazy. And then, oh, wow, this is just really dark and uncomfortable. It starts crazy. escalates into what's truly grim underneath the cool badassness.

I like it. I like it. I wouldn't have it any other way, to be honest. It is so unsettling and it's unnerving in a way that is so uncomfortable. Uncomfortable is like the most simple word I could find, but it's so true. Because everything they're doing with these characters is because this was more like There's more somber moments. They have more dramatic moments.

Even when you're seeing payback in... Where were they? In Nicaragua, yeah. When you're seeing payback, they're in the Reagan time. And there I thought it might be just be like, oh, wacky, you know? We're seeing this, what some characters feel like, spoof of the Avengers, you know? So obviously it was Soldier Boy and being like the Captain America,

Swato kind of sort of remind you of Ant Man. I had a feeling it would be a little bit more of that, that suicide squad. That's kind of like a superhero thing to do now is introduce a team and kill off a bunch of them. Yeah. They're all kind of dope-dopey characters, and then, yeah, you watch them die terribly.

Yeah, but even like a recent movie, and I won't say, just in case people haven't seen it, but even in a recent movie, some stuff happened. How many recent comic movies are there? You probably, you know what I'm talking about. in early June so just think back yeah so even that it's kind of a superhero thing to do although it's

not like surprising here just because of the fact that payback isn't a prevalent team at the moment but but seeing the the harrowing stuff that Mallory went through that it wasn't that she's just some traitor that she was taking advantage of and used in the situation and experienced so much suffering and loss from it and she has her core memory for why she goes after soups and why she hates bot so much and uh and then everything with even a train you know might possibly going down the path of actually caring about the community actually caring about black people in a way of caring about their suffrage instead of just oh i could capitalize off of the pain of black culture and use it as a way to lift myself up and be back in the seven as like top dog but really no that's not the case

and now here he's being witnessed that you see him being affected by a real element of real world crime that occurs and of course uh you know it is it was a fascinating bookend with starlight to show her back with her mom of with stage mom being used and how she the clenching of the fist is a act of like directing the pain or kind of harm it's not really harming yourself it can be if you go too hard you could like if you have long nails you can harm yourself but it is like um directing the pain and now to be back here where she's just becoming so closed off again where she thought this would be her season as well where everything would be good and now it's worse than before you know it's back to being taken advantage of so yeah this was

even with the deep i feel bad for him i admit like the deep's not a character i often feel bad for he's someone who's only just pity but killing uh killing timothy that was messed up that was really messed up i'm an animal lovers that really really bother me i don't care about animals so i thought that scene was hilarious hilarious eat it you pussy yeah what's the big deal it's It's just food. You're a coward. What's the different? Everyone eats fish.

Come on, man. Climb that corporate ladder. No, I absolutely agree. This has been a fascinating turn because, yeah, we've sat here and said, you know, each of these feels like its own kind of centered episode and it doesn't need, like, you know, the other episodes around it to feel complete or like a complete start. Although this first chunk as of this episode does kind of solidify something. over the three, even though they do feel more independent than season two's kickoff episodes. Yeah, by this point, you get the full setting of the place that Homelander is under, like, just every time there's just exponentially fewer controls and safeguards on him.

And that's something that each, you know, each season they're pretty good at developing these stakes where I'm like, this could be like devastating to the entire world. and how are they going to figure this out and also top this or you know come up with something just as engaging next season and i appreciate that they don't pull punches that way so yeah with homelander especially as of this third episode you're sitting here going like man he he really can't do like whatever he wants and unless they find this a weapon but i have to imagine it's not going to ultimately come down to the weapon in the way that we expect like it really does feel hopeless as of this moment this episode specifically and two you feel just just the depth of depravity that propping all this stuff up requires and I feel like this episode being the one where Huey and it's been interesting to watch

his turn as well basically sort of surrendering to the idea of look yeah I try to do it legit and even the legit way is filled with secrets and lies and horrific circumstances so Starlight can you please just soldier through this and like it's really heartbreaking to watch that at the end because you know that there are so many overlapping contexts and you've got supersonic and you're like well maybe he will at least be an ally to her during this situation i can also really understand though how he could get suckered into this whole you know dog and pony show that is the seven and that is vaught and that yeah just perpetuates this ever twisting just you know spiral into the depths of awful human behavior and so yeah it's like

everything starlight does from here on how it seems like it's just going to be trauma and yeah to like center back in on that like the way that he has invaded and that he homelander like overtly uh just like sadistically exerts his control and authority over people is like is really unnerving especially when you think that yeah this is a really heightened caricature of various modes of pop culture and various aspects of society but at the same time especially in recent years of what we've learned is possible out there in the corporate and socioeconomic political worlds, you know, it also feels like it's echoing something true and disgusting. And I mean, you know, we're watching this. Not that there are super

direct parallels, but it's like it's funny to watch this while there's like a major, you know, abuse and defamation trial happening in popular culture because then you have examples of how those things happen, how they happen in entertainment scenarios, and how they happen with these giant marketing apparatusies surrounding them to sculpt the truth. Like, yeah, it's nice because you've got all the cool superhero, you know, edgy shit, but then you can think about stuff like that. And that's kind of the impression. This episode left on me is that, you know?

Yeah. It's cruel stuff. I think this episode was showing that everyone's just giving into their darkness this time around. like everyone is succumbing to the darkest parts of themselves and the most desperate yes and in many ways yeah it's it's for some people the most desperate and other ones like like homelander there's nothing desperate about it to him with him he's just he i i i i think it's a commentary on trumpism and in many Anyways, like there's other types of personalities, but again, knowing who this show's developed by, the producers involved and how it's spoken they are, a lot of the commentary of this guy of, you know, I want to be loved. And if I can't be loved, I will gladly be feared and I will ruin your life as just so diabolical, which is a big theme with some of these characters.

diabolical usually being like oh so fun and messed up this is this is a psychologically messed up butcher succumbing to his own darkness when he was on a path of filling himself with more light you know he reached a breaking point but then he rejects Ryan and hurts him and you could tell how tortured he is by such a decision but he gave him to his darkness he was giving it to his darkness starlight's giving into her darkness. Everyone is giving it to their darkness. Frenchie coming to terms with he's not a leader and he is often used as, you know, as the woman put it, like a dog, you know, who just always needs someone to take orders from and work for. And even then you see that moment where when he's talking with a butcher and he says no. And he's, and we see he, and we see

how the scene beforehand, how he wants nothing to do with this woman and it hates this whole possibility of going back to her and stuff and it took took him some balls to stand up to her and then Butcher pushes just a tiny bit and you can see Butchers putting his foot down for it and he gives in everyone's just give it in it's it's this was a really dark episode to me this is a very very dark episode the deep even like eating His own friend. Wanted the whole thing with his wife. His wife, yeah, celebrity wife.

Goddamn, opportunist wife. And good, I like the casting, too, for young Mallory and young Stan Edgar, too. I thought Stan Eggger felt like an impression. Yeah, like a solid impression, but also too, like I'm not. lot more focused on like this is not a bad impression yeah but uh especially the one who played grace mallory i thought she did a terrific job and did a lot to humanize her experience uh poor ryan i really liked what they were doing i was i was really happy about that was an unexpected dynamic that the trailers didn't even lead on is something that this show would be doing with them getting

along like that's heartbreaking i've never quite been heartbroken with this show as much as i love it But they did some things here that, like, really hurt. Well, because with Ryan, I think that's great because you have such a thin line. Like, you can see how just a couple of the right traumatic moments could, you know, warp this kid not to the same degree as a homelander, but in a way that is sort of unmitigated and volatile, yeah, and could get to there

because you obviously of who's dad is. And so, yeah, I feel like it's heartbreaking. And there's just bigger stakes because it's like, if anybody needs to be looked out for and, you know, nurtured the right way, it's probably this case. Well, they do a lot in this show of viewing the world through media. Yeah. And, you know, they often, even at the beginning of this episode, there's those sequences where people are watching the world unfold through television, you know, controlling the media. Media propaganda a lot of the time. And when you think about a character like Ryan, who is.

who did accidentally murder his own mom and who is the dad is celebrated as this glorious hero yeah super loved he knows the truth that he is villainous and vile and then you get rejected by surrogate father and surrogate father leaves you saying what you did to your mom it's like you to me that's scary like wow I Butcher, you know, if you want it to leave, fine. I mean, not fine, but don't push the kid down a path that could eventually snowball him. It's not the same as telling your dog to leave in some old movie.

Yeah, that's, that to me was very, that was very, I was like, that was not a smart choice at all. Yeah, I was like, that could lead to some terrible consequences. Yeah, when they're standing by the window and he's like, I feel so bad. I'm like, maybe you could have chosen a different way to do the same thing you just did without, and I know that part of that is a snap in the moment, but it's also like, I need to separate myself from you because of all this danger, you know. It is interesting what they're unpacking, and I wish the, kind of wish the trailers

in and show us that Jensen Ackles is alive. Yeah. Or that he's being stored somewhere for resurrection in modern day time. Yeah. It would be nice to just have it be a surprise. Like, oh, he's playing him in the... the flashbacks. Cool. Cool. Good to know. It's nice to have him here, but I won't get too, you know, attached or, you know, intent on, yeah, a certain version of this. Yeah, I think this,

I think what this is showing is, like, we always know that there's the, the line that Homelandian could cross to being the person who commits mass genocide. We, we know that he could, he's capable of that. Like, the way he flips that conversation with Starlight. like the last season ended with the leverage of you will not be loved you know they had the crowd noise of him thinking that when people are chanting homeland or that's the thing he lives for he wants to be loved and you know he goes yeah but if I if he had nothing to lose then screw it has his world domination global domination global destruction and I keep thinking like there's got to be something that they developed as a face

safe to take him out there has to be something along the way that they developed where worst case if we need to show because like stan anger shows no fear towards him yeah and sometimes i go are you sure you want to be that way around him because yeah what do you got man what what true leverage especially now do you have and i almost wonder if this season might set up for a stan anger death well i think he likes to watch people suffer in all kinds of ways it doesn't matter what it is but that's what he gets off on that more than anything else is watching people suffer and like inviting the deep back in as a way to make starlight suffer but then to also torture the deep is is so such a safe way he's such a sick guy yeah and he's always got to reinforce his control by by breaking the people

around him and knowing that speech he's giving him like I could do whatever I want and people will love me. Like, that's the key. And I don't know. It's like he forgot some things he did last season then. Or he's just not going to care about a certain demographic. He's not going to care about them, you know, like, oh, your points drop with these urban communities. But this community really loves you. So I'm just going to lean into that. And because in last season, the people were protesting against it. Like, even this season starts off because of things he did. Yeah, yeah, you know, but there is a group out there that really will love, depending on how he, how he handles his composure and confidence around situations. That's the thing is like, if you are someone who can proceed with like no fucks given, you're just going to be a really strong and you're just going to be confident in what you're doing.

I'm not wrong. I'm not going to apologize for shit. yeah you will attract an audience and who doesn't people love people who tell it like it is but when you try to be apologetic or try to spin it with something else people you know get mad at the fact that they feel there's they're looking at a lie they're looking at a mask yeah you know weakness yeah where it's like if you just show who you are underneath you will find the people because at the end of the day there's always this level of some type of whether it's good or bad if you're there's something about honesty that's appealing yeah um well yeah i'd follow home lander

that's good it's the depths of this world you should into the depths of depriving and beyond i'd do it no matter what you have to eat no well you know even with hughie though like in telling her starlight you know at least he's honest with her supposed to bullshitting her about stuff but even telling her like yeah you got to suffer and i'm putting your life uh on on edge entirely yeah you're at risk at every moment now because we have a cause we got to fulfill oh you're a loser man i think one way or the other you can't they can't that's the rule of romantic couples in these kinds of shows can't stay together forever what's supersonic's power you know they they talked about it

can you get can he can does he have like supersonic speed abilities super sonic agility or is it like some kind of wave projection i know they did that american hero you know in the show that they're doing here they did some obstacle course bit but it was very brief and the rest of the time he's just behind the seats on the show we're dancing and seeing yeah Yeah, we'll see it. I mean, I imagine, now that he's part of the seven, we'll see him do some stuff out in the field. I wonder how that character's going to twist, too,

because they've developed him thus far as a pretty upstanding person, and they talk in this episode about, like, you know, I was an addict, and I had all this recovery to do, and it seems like he's really done it, but also I know that, you know, you've got a character like Homeland or if he gets even a whiff of that history, he's going to, you know, just to use, that to his advantage. So I'm very worried

for that character because he seems so wholesome right now, especially with everything. They've had, like, all the opportunities he's had to be skeevy about the Starlight and Huey business and all that stuff. But, yeah, this was maddening in a lot of ways this episode. Maddening

and soul crushing. All right. Well, we're done. Thanks for being here. We'll see you guys. Thank you.