The Reel Rejects - THE BOYS 4x1 Breakdown & REVIEW!!

Episode Date: June 13, 2024

SEASON 4 PREMIERE!! The Boys Season 4 Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects The Boys Season 4 Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Spoiler Review, Easter Eggs & Ending Explained with the world's smartest supe Sister Sage being introduced! With Homelander joining Mortal Kombat, we now delve into the first episode of Season 4 of "The Boys" that picks up with the team attempting to neutralize Victoria Neuman by swapping her eye drops with acid. However, the plan fails due to Butcher's deteriorating health, as he is suffering from a brain clot that is causing him to vomit and hallucinate. Meanwhile, Homelander is dealing with the fallout from his actions and the revelation of his true nature. He is also facing a trial for murder, which he is ultimately acquitted of. The episode sets up several plot threads, including Butcher's declining health, Homelander's growing instability, and the introduction of new characters and challenges for the team. With Election Year gearing up between Donald Trump & Joe Biden, this season seems to be honoring the America we know. The Boys cast & characters consist of Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell, Antony Starr as Homelander, Erin Moriarty as Starlight/Annie January, Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, Jessie T. Usher as A-Train, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Chace Crawford as The Deep, Tomer Capone as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir, Claudia Doumit as Victoria Neuman, Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett, Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, Simon Pegg, Rosemarie DeWitt as Hughie's mother, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (The Walking Dead), & Firecracker, an alt right member of the Seven.  Follow Coy Jandreau:  Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@coyjandreau?l... Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/coyjandreau/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/CoyJandreau YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwYH2szDTuU9ImFZ9gBRH8w Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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because it's very cold to lose it. Burlington, Marks, Rebaughes, wow! Citizens of the Reject Nation, it is the time for the boys. Without further ado, let's watch Season 4, Episode 1 of the Boys. I didn't bring you guys in, which I apologize for, but I also realize how long it was. But I will justify why I did it. All right, that was episode one of the three episode premiere. We'll talk at length at the end of episode three,

but I do want to dive into some of the episode one thoughts. This was insane. How was it coming back, guys? It was awesome. You know, three and a half out of five. That's great. It's fun to be back because, like, it's been a long time, or it feels like it's been a long time since season three,

Gen V aside. But, yeah, this just being immersed back into the world is such a joy, even though it's so kind of soul-wrenching. I'll admit it definitely was disorienting at first how long it's been. I don't remember if the strike delayed things or what caused it feels like a longer time between seasons three and four than two and three

but I think the volume of what happened in season one through three is also part of that. The show is so cumulative. It builds on intrigue, it builds on character arcs, it builds on stakes, and now that we're to the point where it's literally people getting shot in the head in the opening to show how powerful they are. It is

apparent that we've built to this. Like season one was very much, what if superheroes were messed up and in the world and now it's the political aspects on top of the power structure on top of like the geopolitical maneuvering all the things you were talking about admiring and you know in the game itself but that's all very our world today in 2024 so seeing it mirrored when we're this invested in these characters is really interesting for me yeah i mean i rewatched season three before going into this so a lot of that's still pretty fresh in my mind and to feel like this is like the sequel season directly that that is a pretty cool jumping off point i was kind

for just coming off of rewatch for part three i was found it like jarring especially look at mother's milk wow he looks so different because we avoided the trailers for this and to see just how slim down he is i'm like i'm not part of me's like does he have a condition that i don't know about i saw last like a year ago at a con and he looked like he did season three because it's like it can't just be the beard that went down like he actually i think he lost like 20 pounds yeah he looks like he really leaned out a lot and uh and so david guggins seeing him in this position i i find really fun and because he's taking more of the leadership side of of the team of the boys while i feel like some stuff with butcher i'm a tad worried about it getting a little bit

repetitive with season three from like yeah just how everything's sort of been with butcher i mean every season's the start up we've got to take down homeland and then butcher uh like that's why it was like a butcher foiled the plans and gave the plans of victoria i would that was a nice I would have been annoyed because I'm like, come on, man. We just went through this like whole ordeal. Like that's not just like create drama for drama's sake. So I appreciate them tempting that, but them not actually going through with that was the right call. But again, it's just setting the stage.

And I love what they're doing with Sage. Sage in particular, I find to be one of the most compelling elements because if you can't beat Homeland or via through strength, the way you can beat him is via through intelligence perhaps. But to not do that via intelligence. not do it be it through versing but through teaming up is even more scary and daunting because you've got to go bigger and there's always this talk and this potential foreshadowing of scorched earth that they keep doing in this show and instead of it being like homelander just becoming like you know the bvs superman version or he's just like ruling the world and like annihilating people left and right he's like have it crumble from within right i think is so smart and uh that's what i was saying like respect the game because like this It's such a, it's like to do this with your superheroes and to have it mirror what is obviously our political landscape today to go off of, it's weird because, you know, we had our situation where Trump was president for a few years. And it seems like it's done some of its commentary,

the boys had through that. And now it looks like Trump, you know, he's running for president again and very well could be president again. And just watching the way the world continues to, you know, zigzag around via the political landscape and to see where the show's going with this and like oh wow this this is the first time boys has seemed like scary to me in a real world way before it's always been in this like fantastical sense still yeah but like this is the first time we're watching it especially when they're all like having the riots like man this is actually like playing on a real life here right it feels more present like i feel like others reached ground level yeah yeah exactly i feel like the show has caught up to our reality not it's reflecting four years ago when it was

the prior presidency. Yeah, yeah. Whereas now it feels like it's, this is one month ago. Yeah, and it's like this show seems like it's going to 100% be a more political show and less a comment.

It's evolved from a commentary on superhero mediums. And capitalism and a high concept of budgets. Because I feel like Amazon doing a show about Vod is obviously Vought knows what it is. So I feel like there's less of the commentary on like insane billionaires and more of a commentary on political intrigue.

Yeah, they've had a lot of different They pretty much talk about everything every season, but they usually find something they're mainly focusing on. And I feel like, again, this season will do all that, but they're setting the stage for it, but this is going to be our most politically driven one. I agree with that. And I think that the season is set up,

what I said at the beginning about the stakes escalating because you compound interest, I also think it's interesting because the characters feel the most like they do in the comic here, but the show has never really tried to mirror the comic. In the comic, they get, you know, compound V in the beginning, and they have powers the whole time.

Like the comic, there's always that violence that is almost an equal level. And it wasn't until season three. The Compound V was even introduced as Jess Butcher and Huey. So the show has always done a really good job being like a companion piece,

which I think is its strength. I don't think you should just directly adapt to the boys because it's fun to have two very different things. This feels really interesting because Mother's Milk is very much the leader of the boys at times. And the way they're playing with Frenchie feels a lot more like the mini little side missions

you'd have like a very French-centric arc. The way the female is so powerful again, and I feel like that's going to be used as like a weaponized thing. That all feels like the comics, but the comics were never as political as I feel like the show is going to go. So I feel like at the same time, it's feeling like the characters are ripped right out of the page, but they're going to be told in a story that I've never seen in the boys.

The boys has always been political, but this season, like you said, feels like it's going to be today. Yeah, and I love it because the way how the violence was going was, yeah, I'd have to do it during election, it was fun. And the way the violence was increasing. But again, but keeping a very character dream, where Homelander is trying to be a dad, but keeping Ryan nuance where he is divided, like, I actually don't want Butcher to die and seeing what kind of ego arises out of Homelander.

The character of Sage, I find very fun. And even, like, Homelander saying, like, I know how to listen to you, but really he's just like, I know how to use you still. Yeah, and this is how you can use me. Yeah. And, like, this is the benefit for you. I'm smart enough to know how to leverage that. Yeah, and she's talking about, like, being a black woman and the hardships and the optics that that's going to come with.

And he just laughs it off. He's like, I know how to use you still. Yeah. Like, I can still use you behind the scenes. Him scoffing at that and then still doing it. But yeah, but too, but like the level of brilliance she has where she just looks down on humanity, because they both look down on humanity in their own ways. Like, he is so strong and capable that they're ants to him, humanity. And she is so hyper intelligent.

But they're snails to. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, and I bet that's all like, wow, the team up of them is freaking brilliant. I love it. I freaking love it. And that makes him so much scarier. Yeah. But also, she might be the one to be able to take them out because she can run circles around him.

Because we kept thinking like Victoria Newman might be the one, but I'm like, I don't know. I mean, might be this new sister sage. You would definitely need Victoria to probably team up with the boys at this point. Yeah. You have to take both down if they're teaming up. And to have some sort of power structure balance. Yeah. Well, that's the thing that struck me as perhaps most interesting about the start of this season is your, you expressed

a sort of wariness that butcher might get repetitive. And I was sort of like, I wonder if Homelander's going to get repetitive. And I feel like this is a great choice to, at least for right now, for the arc of this season, prevent that from happening because I love that thread of, I need someone to challenge me. I need somebody who's not just going to be a sycophant and offer me nothing new. I need, you know, to, you know, you recognize the worth in friction and the worth in the second pair of eyes and things like that. And I feel like, yeah, there's so much terror. that can be wrought with their union, but also, yeah, like, this spells out a really intriguing

question for me across the rest of the season as to where her allegiances are going to go, where her morality is going to go right now. She's certainly, you know, again, I feel like biting that hook of put your ideas to work on the global scale. But, yeah, what kind of conscience is she going to have and or develop? Does she even have a perspective that is going to foster a conscience, or does she just know too much that even that is sort of wrote and arbitrary at this point. And so many times

intelligent people are just so removed because they're like there's no point in investing in this. I mean the more you learn. There's a tendency toward nihilism, certainly, the more you learn. And I want to say my favorite element of the show, and I just remember I wanted to point it out specifically, this episode really deals with a fun way

to have the eyeline be confusing for you as an audience member. Because we've got a lot of loss in this episode. There's, you know, what Huey's going through with his father. There's what Butcher's going through with his son. there's what, you know, Annie's going through with her identity as well as like what her name is becoming. There's all that loss

and that's hard as a viewer to identify with because it feels so raw and emotional and real but then the character that I think is the most relatable while being the most evil is the one that's going through the I can't feel anything what's wrong with me and that's Homelander and I love that there were moments where he's describing I don't know

how to feel anything because I'm bored of accomplishing this. I've achieved this ambition. The only character that's actually accomplished their goals is Homelander, and that's kind of throwing us into this feeling of like, oh, I know what it's like to check that box and have it feel like nothing. And then adding the stakes of the superhero element of like the sick of fans and the followers and all these things, you identify by the third act with him looking maliciously and insanely around a room.

And I love how scary that feels as an audience member going like, I don't like relating to that at all. So I was really impressed with all the characters feeling like they got arcs that I identified with. Yeah, well, and it's a fascinating tension. I feel like more than ever, at least at this point as of this episode, it feels like you really feel the clash between action and optics and optics as action.

And there's so much in both and even like, what can I use my persona for, Homelander out of his costume? Like there's so many visual and also thematic elements that play into both those things, which makes me real excited because there's been so much, obviously, like, clandestine action, whereas here it almost feels like so much has to happen in the open,

because people are calling bluffs and leverage we have learned is not often as leverageable as you think it is. And that's going to be fun to dive into because that's the world we live in right now, especially, you know. And we've got to get eight hours with it because there's so many places it can go. And I honestly genuinely don't know where this season is going to go, which is exciting. So I think we should get into episode two because if you're watching this day one, all three dropped. So we're going to be diving right in episode two. Hit that notification bell so you know when episode two drops. leave a comment below let me know let us know what your favorite arc is so far which character are you excited about to see where they go this season what was your big whoa moment the boys is known for its like insane then there were i mean at this pilot as ever or this episode one as ever is full of those moments uh please share like hit all the buttons on youtube we'll see you episode two in a minute

Gabriel this month we are shouting out our patrons and we are instantly exclaiming which celebrity they remind us of the most when I think of you Gabriel there's really only one celebrity that comes to mine

Seth McFarland You know why because he's a goddamn atheist That's right he is. He's an atheist, and he's constantly talking about being an atheist. And he's constantly... It was a thing for a long time.

Oh, he was an atheist. Like, it was like the poster boy for atheism and celebrity culture for some reason. He took it over from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. And Gabriel. Gabriel is our proud atheist at this matriot. Yeah, totally. So if there's any celebrity you are most like, it is easily Seth the McFarrow. Most godless celebrity.

Most godless, irreverent patron that you could possibly ask for. Let's face me, you don't have God in your life. No. You don't have any boundaries. You don't have any stator jokes. You just make fun of everyone else's beliefs because you have this smug superiority over them. You wish you did. Like, oh, my God, all Greg and John do is make Angel Gabriel jokes.

And you get bad, offended by nothing. I'm offended by the suggestion of angels. You know what, man. You got people like. Seth McFarlane leading the wave. Yeah. People who are mainly behind the camera in the booth for a good reason. You know.

But sometimes they're in front of the camera. Sometimes you're singing the showtiped by other people around them, you know? Yeah. Sometimes you're doing your Frank Sinatra act, and that's just as swath as atheism. So, Gabriel, you keep on not believing in God, and, hey, when you die, I can't wait for... I hope nothing happens. Nothing happened at all. I hope you decompose.

And then, you know, maybe. become fertilizing. Just know that there are souls, and you're just not welcoming it. Yeah. You cease to become nothing. Our Seth McFarland.

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