The Reel Rejects - REJECT RECAP: The Boys Season 3, Episode 4 - "Glorious Five Year Plan" Review!!
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How's it going, Reject Nation? Just wanted to welcome you quickly to our season three, episode four, reaction review, breakdown, and recap for the boy's glorious five-year plan.
This season continues to be gripping, outlandish, touching in ways, and probably the darkest one yet out of a pretty dark show in general, or at least a show with a pretty harsh satirical edge.
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Wow, man, this season is so dark.
God damn.
Early, like, halfway through the season,
and the most menacing season that they've ever done.
They're, like, so tense and taut.
This is ripping hard.
This is the most tense season, I think they've done.
Like, yeah, they're just, like, truly just twisted.
And the way they let these dramatic, dark scenes play out,
just like the so many is the episodes are usually try to like inter-splice the fun and everything but most of
so much of this especially this one is just like truly uncomfort unsettling for what's all what our
characters are all becoming and experiencing you know it's always had that quality but especially
this time around it's menacing is the word that keeps coming to mind for what everyone's going
through oh yeah well because before i mean there's always been obviously you know really involved character
journeys for all the boys and whatnot, but it feels like especially for them and for everybody
this season is really like the desperation and the toll that takes on your soul, like, you know,
and everyone's soul seems like it is going through a big, nasty change right now.
Yeah.
It's harsh, yeah.
It's like diabolical sounds like more of like a fun thing to say, like a fun twisted way.
this is this is like watching a dark drama a lot of the time you know what we kiss yeah yeah
probably it's a big bleak and menacing yeah yeah what this really feels like I like it a lot
I love it yeah like to see like Huey's arm out the window like Kimiko dying in the back of
the van and all butcher and in fact you're seeing what the B24 effects have on it the
drug of it where you know he was just in awe enamored with his own like abilities and it's just so
unaffected by everyone's judgment and it's lost in it and they got their friend dying in the back
yeah and butcher is is just like huh so like no no fox given about Kim and go yeah and
yeah it's just the way these scenes play out it it takes its time a little bit more and you
really get a sit in the darkness
this isn't a fun
I don't associate this one as being a fun of the season
it's always entertaining but
god damn this is like a drama now
yeah tons of fun bits
and they're still really good at flipping the tone around
and giving you something like the fight
with all the sex toys but then even
especially this episode I started to notice
because it happens in the A train bit with the commercial too
they're really great at doing
one kind of scene and then leaving a little
coda moment on that scene
like a lingering camera or a little expression that changes the tone in a character-oriented way
for the entire scene we just saw and the progress beyond it.
It's really masterful, I think, the way they're able to jump between the tones
because the satire runs from really goofy, funny satire to just the pitchest, blackest,
most kind of soul-crunching satire.
It's like the most, the way those lingering shots you're talking about,
This seems to have the most contemplative quality with almost every single character.
And then with Homeland or just not unleashed in the sense like he's just like lasering the world to death right now,
but unleashed in a way of he has, he he's just, he is himself now.
Yeah, he's taken full control and he is not hiding.
Yeah, under any pretense.
And to be in the power seat.
My God.
That was very satisfying, though.
That one moment of actual satisfaction was Stan Eggers still somehow being able to tell him off in a way that you can tell does not make Homelander feel good.
Yeah.
Well, it's like because now the more power that Homelander gets, the further he's going to descend and expose himself.
And he's not going to be able to hide, like the less he's.
hides the worst it's going to get for him because he still tries to maintain public image
because he seeks his main thing as being validated by the public and being approved of and
every and he's going to that can slip through the cracks for him easily by his own behavior and then
you know I completely forgot that oh yeah soldier boy supposed to come back in the show
and it wasn't until we saw the tank and I was like that's right soldier
Boy is supposed to cut like it's been so such a so much of the hype for this season has been you
know Soldier Boy Jensen Ackles you know especially if you're a supernatural panel like we're only 10
seasons into the show so far only 10 but you know what I mean like you know like the show's over so
we're 10 episodes into the season into that so we've been excited for Soldier Boy to come back
for Jensen Ackles to come and Eric Crittby and all that but the show's so effective at
everything it's doing in it and and as much as
they're moving things along quick like it's escalating so fast and things are descending
like a collapse is happening so fast too it doesn't feel rushed at all no it's just cutting
through all the bullshit like really not that the other seasons i've ever felt like come on sweet
it up it's just they're going from a to z like way faster well yeah and every time they give you
some reason to feel a little safe or secure they know well enough to go no no
know what's the worst thing that could happen that could really catapult the story let's let's undermine
the sense of security we just gave you by giving you an even more shocking development like that thing
where she's just given the speech and she turns it on stan agger and all that stuff like that shocked me
yeah like they're really coming at all no no no yeah because they're really good to make you go like
oh man the speech is going down what the hell's homeland you're going to do and then yeah they
pull the rug out from under you and it's it's great because it makes you tense in the moment because
now your heart's beating but then you also know oh no this is only
going to get so much worse.
Yes. And I can already see
Homelander's gears turning of how
his plan is working and all that stuff.
Yeah, they're really good.
Like you said, not wasting time, but I think
it's more than that. It's like really embracing
the sort of
catapult that really
not
drawing things out can
can do. Like if you really
set us up to expect, okay, like I'm still enjoying
this and I'll be happy if by the next episode
this develops and then they go ahead and
do it in this one, you know? Yeah. And I think that's a great way to keep the story feeling
really alive and exciting and, and getting you caught up in things to the point where you're
not wondering about the other plotline or that plot. You're just here in the moment, every
moment. And I've been so used to Kimiko being a series regular character that I was, I don't even,
usually, when I'm getting at it, is usually in a show when a character's going through
this like transition and oh yay we're going to finally flee and escape oh my god that's usually a
sign that they're probably going to die nine times out of ten and my mind didn't even go there
and my mind didn't even possibly think oh they're probably going to kill her off yeah I was just like
I don't want them to leave not that we don't know if she's going to live or die we don't know
however I mean I guess I just don't know she's going to live or die I know that's a good place to
be in and too because yeah it at least subverts that cliche and yeah in those moments where they're
talking about actually leaving you are like I would be sad for them to leave the show but also I want
them to leave and be happy and have lives together and so yeah you get so wrapped up in that and then
when she's dying you feel the actual peril and and they're good at casting again the focus around
and making it illustrate something like you pointed out about Huey and butcher in that situation
and what's happening to the team and so like there's a lot going on surrounding just the threat of
upon her life and sustainability.
And I think that's really cool because,
and also too, not having read a bunch
of the source material to know what the plot is there with her.
Yeah, I feel like they could go either way
and this is a show that establishes
that anything could happen and they might,
you know, she might survive,
but it might not be exactly what we expect.
It might not be a full return to recover,
to full recovery or it might not be a full return
to being able to heal or something like that, you know?
Well, it seems like what the Russians have been doing is building Soldier Boy, that's like kind of crazy.
Like they took in the ultimate American soldier and they were trying to either, I don't know, take DNA from him to build their own weapon or morph him into a weapon himself.
Because that blast is so powerful.
Yes.
That whatever did damage her so badly that she can't even heal from it now.
I feel like she'll live.
I feel like the cliffhanger is intentionally designed to get you to come back in the next week.
So I feel like she would.
But yeah.
And also the effect of what's happening to the other characters, too, is what it's really leaning in on as well.
Sorry, what you want to say?
No, yeah, it made me wonder if what they're working on is something where his power probably diminishes and perhaps, you know, neutralizes the actual super abilities of whoever is on the receiving end of it, maybe.
Like, maybe that's part of it.
Yeah, yeah, because I think the actual spice chemical does such an excellent job, and I hate to see them go.
What I think this show has done remarkably well every single season, backed with the performances by Carl Urban, is the writing of Butcher, because they do such an excellent job at, they do push the character to the point where you're like, God, you're an asshole.
You know, not, they'll, they'll really push it to the point of he is, he is, he's not a nice person.
Like, he's not a good person to the point where, like, he's our protagonist, he's our here, like, every season has its moments.
You're like, he's our, it's not the Tony Stark thing.
We're like, yeah, he has the front of an asshole, but you know he's got, yeah, because a lot, because this show teeters between those shades of he's got the front of an asshole, but we know he's a really nice, that he has a big heart underneath.
to, oh, he's actually being sensitive, vulnerable,
depending on his relationship of who he's interacting with.
M.M., he tends to be softer too, you know,
pretends to bark orders at French.
He kind of gives a lot of shit to Huey.
Well, but I like what they've done with this season
is recognize the fact that they had that whole thing in season two
about Huey as your canary,
and now they've leaned into that with their relationship.
He can be more sensitive to that projection
that Butcher has of him as younger brother, I really appreciate that.
And like the way he is with the team in this episode, just how cold he is, how immensely cold he is.
Yet he reveals why he is that way with MM. I think that pushing this to the point of,
yeah, how do you say a team like this? How do you band together when it's just such a
a mess internally first I think that's what this show is doing so well is they create the turmoil
within first before all the external stuff goes like bananas when a lot of the external stuff
is already going bananas but you're watching everyone deteriorate and I love it because I just love
breaking point shit so much and everyone's reaching breaking point it's feeling so hopeless and
like I keep wondering how soldier boy gonna factor in to the preceding stuff with everything with
homeland or what's that going to create, you know? I have no idea what direction that's ultimately
going to go down. But even they had me going with A-Train. Like the first thing I first obviously was
like, don't tell this guy. He's going to snitch. He's going to snitch. Stupid Supersonic. He's
going to snitch. But then they had that one little look when after that whole thing with
Victoria Newman of A-Train. Like, oh, like I guess A-Train is on their side. And they're like, God
damn it you know I'm really curious about that because that how all happened off
screen so I'm sitting here going is was a train basically reading the situation
and going well homelander is alpha so I got to go back and and appease him or is it
some kind of thing where homelander like really intimidated it or caught him and got it out
of him I mean I feel like a train is the type to do that based off of his character
from the past couple seasons
he would. He's terrified of Homelander.
Especially now that Homelander is top dog Olton, like once and for all now at
Vaught. It's like the guy who created him is gone from last season.
Stan Eggers got, Madeline's gone, everyone's gone.
It's just Homelander now at the top.
And the whole thing about we're a pharmaceutical company, not a superhero company.
So for him to have that line going, we're a superhero company.
We always happen.
Yeah.
You know, like completely changing, like giving into what the facade is and trying to make that the reality, at least sort of.
You know what I mean?
Because they're really not heroes after all.
So, yeah, I like how they've been handling all that situation with Homelander and what they've been doing with Victoria Newman especially is really interesting because.
I thought they'd be going down a path of she's bad, you know, corrupt, and yeah, and
Holander in a political soup.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like, oh, she has the liberal guys.
Yeah.
And while she is definitely, you know, like a little corrupt, no, not a little, but yeah,
she has her own agenda.
She's fucking playing for her.
She is the weapon for Stan all these years, you know, she has to do, she's a,
assassin and she has been taking orders from Stan Egger.
I was enjoying watching that relationship.
So I wanted to feel a little bit more of that.
If there's anything I kind of wish we got a little bit more of
was maybe just another episode before that whole thing happened with Stan Egger being stripped
because I found that really compelling that relationship,
Victoria Newman and Stanager have where it could feel,
Because you see that look that Victoria has when Stan Eggers, like, why'd you do this?
And she tells him something along the lines of, like, you were never looking out for me.
You're always looking out for yourself.
But she still feels like conflicted and heartbroken.
Like that was still dad to her, you know?
Yeah, well, I think there was an element.
I don't remember exactly what the line was.
But at the moment, I also took it as sort of a thing of like, you're always looking out for
and trying to protect me.
So in a way, I'm going to try and do the same thing for you.
And she also said she's doing that for Zoe.
Yeah.
For a kid.
And like she's so scared that she's, it's different with like these,
these parents who give their kids compound B wanted a profit.
And she seems like she's giving her a kid compound B to keep her safe.
Just, yeah, it's like the last insurance policy.
I wonder what she's going to do.
Like a little kid.
I can, you know something is going to happen.
Her and Ryan are going to become boyfriend and girlfriend.
That's the play.
There you go.
Young Love with.
insurmountable power.
We still have Ryan to come back into the fold.
Yeah. And I mean, last time
we saw him, he was pissed.
Yeah, this is like
a wild season in a very
different way. It's like the way this season
started with like the crazy
violent death of the
you know, the jumping
and the penis
moment. Human sounding.
That scene was just
like, okay, this is going to be like that
balls to the wall literally, boss the wall
craziness of just non-stop violence and maybe it'll have episodes like that but the way they've
handled crazy is in a way that's more internal now and more and the turmoil is so strong and I
really respect the show for doing it because usually it's like we got to up the ante but only go
and that usually just means go more violent go more sexual they have hero gasin coming up
they're probably going to have more violence but they're I feel like they're really
earning their way to that crazy build
up, you know?
Well, yeah, because they're good at, like, even the scene with all the sex toys is, like, so
outrageous, but it's set up in a way where it's just like, yeah, that's the weapons
available at this moment, so they're good at taking the ridiculousness and motivating it
by various means that blend into the scene, so it's clear that they're not just trying to
set up for this kooky action idea that we had because we want to be so edgy.
Like, yeah, everything really feels like it's part of this absurd, demented work.
And I like what they're doing with Ashley as well because she's constantly trying to be like Madeline Stillwell, but she's never going to quite get there where Madeline Stillwell would usually hide her fear. You know, she wears her fear and answers, yes, sir, you know, like she doesn't even try to be boss.
Yeah. And until she gets to that next, she she does to the people she absolutely knows are below her and that's about it. You know, and you can tell that she gets off on that power dynamic.
Well guys another solid episode of the boys. I'm loving this season a lot. I'm really really loving and they're doing it's so different and it's like the same but very different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
And man, Aaron Moriarty, I think is her name. Yes. Starlight. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful performance. Doesn't get enough credit I think for her really like brilliant acting.
Everyone. Everyone's so great. Everyone's like phenomenal. Like shots out to like everyone. They're all so good.
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i want to see you're the best guy all right that's all we talk about in your shout-outs is just how
charitable and how noble and how good of a guy you are well i want to see if that holds up in
the world of the boys like if you were put in this world with home
homelander and VOT and Stormfront and the deep and all these assholes, would you be able to maintain your, we good, we good, we set up? Is this, are we rolling? Okay. Would you be able to maintain your spirit and your good nature in the world? It doesn't seem like. Look at Huey, all right? Look at him. He's already caving in. He's going back to the old ways. Would you Chris Wammoth be able to be as Jesus godly as you are? I think so.
Because you have the best heart, you have the best soul, you have the best smile, and you have the brightest eyes.
And I hope that one day we get to meet and we get to just share in a brotherly hug, Chris.
All right, you know, this shot is looking good, dude.
This is a great cinematography display demo right now.
But anyway, Chris, look, I really hope that you are doing well and that you are bringing.
Let's do it again.
Okay, back to one.