The Reel Rejects - THE BOYS 4x2 Breakdown & REVIEW!!!

Episode Date: June 13, 2024

Will Ferrel Cameo & Multiplying Splinter Fight Scene! Use code REELREJECTS50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box plus 20% off your next month at https://bit.ly/3wWWHmH!  The Boys Season 4 Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Training A-Train! The Boys Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Easter Eggs, Spoiler Review, & Ending Explained! In the second episode of The Boys Season 4, titled "Life Among the Septics," the story continues to delve into the complex dynamics between the superheroes and the anti-superhero group led by Butcher. The episode opens with Hughie, who is struggling with his role and the challenges of the mission. Meanwhile, Annie, also known as Starlight, is focused on ensuring the safety of her Starlighters, a group of young superheroes. The episode also explores the father-son relationship between Homelander and Ryan, with both dealing with their own internal conflicts. Homelander is grappling with his image and the pressures of being a superhero, while Ryan is learning to control his powers and navigate the world of staged saves. The main plot of the episode revolves around Butcher's illness and the tension it causes within the group. Butcher reveals his condition to the team, leading to a confrontation with Mother's Milk (MM). The conflict escalates, resulting in a physical fight between Butcher and MM. The fight between the Boys and Splinter's clones takes place at a The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel-themed party, with the clones suffering from pink eye due to Splinter's "salad tossing." The Boys manage to defeat the clones, but the fight highlights the ongoing struggle between the superheroes and their enemies. The episode ends with Butcher disobeying orders and showing up to save the team, impaling the "prime" Splinter with a crowbar. The episode sets the stage for further conflicts and character development in the upcoming episodes. 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

Meet the most capable CRV Honda has ever dreamed up. The all-new CRV Trail Sport Hybrid. With all-terrain tires and available enhanced traction control, it's built for wherever the day takes you. Heated front seats and a heated steering wheel? Ideal for winter drives and crisp early starts. And with generous cargo space, it's ready for big gear and even bigger getaways. The CRV Trail Sport Hybrid.

Learn more at honda.com slash CRV. Did you know that at Chevron you can fuel up on unbeatable mileage and savings? With Chevron rewards, you'll get 25 cents off per gallon on your next five visits. All you have to do is download the Chevron app and join to start saving on fuel. Then you can keep fueling up on other things like adventure, memories, vacations, daycations, quality time, and so many other possibilities. Head to your nearest Chevron station to fuel up and get rewarded today. Terms apply. See Chevron-Texcorewards.com for more details. I'm doing to my family, because we're going to Burlington

for the event of liquidation candidate. We're going to now-missom to find the better in articles of liquidation, from roba, to decoration of the home, and much more. With offers, over-offertas, I can go every day to be how much I'll earn. My kids and I expect with anxies the liquidation,

because it's very cold to lose it. Burlington, Marks, Rebaughes, wow! Thanks to Factor for sponsoring this video. It's time to watch the episode. Let's do that thing. Oh, wow. Yeah, I did not expect that to stay? Not bad.

All right. All right. Gang. Another one down. What's going on over there? There's a lot happening. This is so moved by the episode. What did y'all think?

Let's hear it. uh i really enjoyed that this kind of blended we we talked at the end of the last episode about how the shows evolved this one kind of felt like it was blending the old style of the the parody the uh local consequences and the political this like you know the first act was very much you know that that a train movie which reminded me the first couple seasons then the second act went into you know where we are in the world of soups which feels like the second and third season and then the political stuff going on in this one so i like this episode is kind of a um remember what the show is, but also move the plot along. Like, I felt like this one was a little more cohesive for me as far as the tonality that the show's gone through. I definitely feel like the first episode was like, okay, season four is going to be different. And then this one was like, oh, it's the boys again. So I thought this was really good.

It felt strong. It felt like each of our characters got a bit of an arc. It did the thing where it explored, you know, a special setting. And, you know, there is a serialized nature to this show at times. But there were a few moments that definitely had that, like, let's do a freak out just for the sake of it, that sometimes the show does a bit too much. I respect a good human remipede, but I definitely think that

it did go on a bit more in that TruthCon setting than it necessarily needed to. I thought it was a good setting. I just thought it was a bit of like, okay, where does this go? And then when it didn't have a big impact, I was like, okay. That makes sense. That's my only real negative is that, you know, we lived in that space

and there weren't a big consequence to it because at the end of the day, Sister Sage still got away. That's true. That's true. And I mean, I don't know if that's going to be the last we see a firecracker, but certainly it... Yeah, I doubt that, but I... It doused at least her initial momentum, sure. Yeah. It's one of those settings that, yeah, has a lot of fun details and a lot of fun satire

in it. It makes you want to pause and scrub. I wonder if there's maybe more impact or more that this will have set up than is apparent at the immediate moment. But what did you think, gee? It's good stuff, guys. It's waking you up. It's good stuff, everyone. that sage lady she's amazing she's she's god damn

captured your heart I love when she walked in with fire cracker and the multiple guy just laid it all out oh man like damn she's a boss yeah the whole thing with like

how they do the previs I was kind of confused on what they what they were talking about at first like oh are they like just going to film something I forget that's an actual thing on the streets that they're entirely staging But I like how they pulled the card and back to the point where it's like,

oh, they're doing like an actual pre-vis the way how people do pre-vis on film sets. Yeah. And they're doing what... And they're doing what these kind of people often accuse people of doing, which is orchestrating a crisis with crisis actors. Right.

Yeah. And then to have like that accident go wrong and to see like how Homelanders' insecurity keeps getting even worse and worse, whenever he thinks he's doing something that'll cause him to grow. but any time he's presented with the alternative, it just makes him worse.

So he can't let his own son have the spotlight. The stuff with Sage whenever they're at odds with each other, even though it's like, no, this is what he wants. But anytime it's like he says he wants a challenge, but he really doesn't want a challenge. He always wants the opposite of what he says he actually wants. Because it's all insecurity. He's lashing out.

Yeah, he's never satisfied. That's the greatest threat about a homelander is that he, He's, whatever he wants certainty of, he always wants the uncertainty. And whenever he's in uncertainty, he wants certainty. And I love that about his character so much. So seeing, like, him just, like, fail as a father is a really fascinating thing because he's dealing with a son who identifies as being human, where he does not identify as being human. The part about Frenchy, I'm kind of wondering if this, they have, like, certain story structures that they do. M.M. and Butcher are always at odds with each other. But Butcher always views M.M. There's like a whole scene in the last season where he's like, you're the real, he essentially tells him you're the real leader out of everyone. And he's the one who can, he's the one who can really influence people. And it shows in this season. But like them being at odds with each other. So I like the development of like, you know, M.M. saying like, no, I'm not actually going to help you out. So like, that's one of the structures they explore is M.M. and Butcher specifically being at odds, but then they end them working together.

anyway. And then this other thing with Frenchie is there's like something it has passed before he was ever teamed up with Butcher that is coming back to haunt him in some way. And I don't know, maybe this was I was sold on the whole like, um, like him like recovering and like moving forward and being in AAA and all that stuff that I was like really sold on. And then to have it be like, oh, something in his past yet again killed someone. And I'm like an immediate rapes. Yeah. Yeah. Like, Oh, okay. It's like it comes out as a twist. So I don't know if we like, I don't know. It's only the second episode. It only just got introduced. It's the one thing I'm like a little bit on the fence about. So I just want to see how it unfolds before I cast judgment on it. Because when you're four seasons in it, it's your more. It's hard to not retrace. It's hard to not. Yeah. No, it's really hard not to retread. And even though it's different technically, it's also there's enough similarities to make it feel similar. Similar dynamics. So yeah, that's. that's like the one aspect of it that I'm a little bit cautious about, but all the new stuff they're doing and the development of dynamics. And like A-Train, another thing that they've been

like toying with a lot. I really like the delivery of that. They have been playing at the idea of A-Train actually doing something altruistic. And I think it landed really well here. And I liked that it pushed Starlight in a position, which then made me feel like Huey is in a different position. And then I finally felt the payoff of the Huey setup. Like I didn't have, I wanted to have a bigger feeling towards the Huey mom reveal. It didn't really work for me until the very last scene because of how good that scene was. And I also think the sister sage stuff is really fun because I feel like every time there's a seed planted, whether it's the deep or I feel like there's going to be something with noir,

but like her manipulating the seven, I love that I already know how much I'm going to love the payoff. Like she's just moving these chess pieces and I don't know where it's going to land, but I feel the importance of it. Like the whole season is hers. And I'm really enjoying the dynamic between not just her and Homelander, but her and the super community. Like she's already running stuff.

with, you know, the little side villains, but she's also manipulating the deep for later, and she's also going to be running things with the movies. Like, Sister Sage is such a great influence. She can see how the chess pieces go. She can see the map ahead of everyone. She's got, like, these navigation skills that I think are so cool.

It's like a lot of times when people are being tracked, they can't tell. Not even Homelandor can tell a lot of time when he's being tracked, but she could tell right away. Oh, I love it. I think she's, I think she's like such a great character. She's the Aces for the season for me. I had no idea this character.

I don't know if they're in the comics or not. I had no idea this character was going to be in here. So, like, avoiding the trailers, this was, like, one of the big delights to me is, like, wow, I had no idea who this person is. It is, like, and she's just such a great actress. Like, every time she's on screen, she really does slip into the role. Like, she commands the screen in a different type of behavior pattern. And I guess how small she is. She commands everyone on frame, and she's, like, the smallest of my lot.

She's the least big and imposing, and she's also the least big and imposing, and she's also the least. erratically guided by it and emotion of all the powered at least especially the powered characters and whatnot yeah no like she's she's such a great character slash also device because like yeah you need somebody who can upend the established order of things and to make us feel like oh yeah maybe somebody is 12 steps ahead maybe this is looking a little more hopeless than the normal set of hopeless stakes and scenarios that we're used to up till now. Thank you to Factor for partnering up with us yet again. Reason why is because I am already a Factor customer. And the reason why I'm a Factor customer is in the

passenger and a half I've been getting really focused on bettering my mental health and part of bettering my mental health has been better in my physical health. And part of better in your physical health is improving your eating habits. And Factor is a delicious, efficient way to do that. A kitchen revolution. A time saver for a food craver, if you will. Factor delivers fresh, never frozen meals, Right to your doorstep, each meal is chef-crafted and dietitian approved. Ready to eat in just two minutes, you can choose from a weekly menu of 35 options like calorie smart, keto, protein plus, or vegan and veggie. Plus, they offer over 60 add-ons every week, including breakfast, snacks, and beverages. As a vegetarian, I'm in love with their options like the Caribbean-spiced tofu with black beans, rice, mango, salsa, and coconut jerk sauce.

And in my pescatarian days, the French onion, Better Monday, with Parmesan, Cali, mash, garlic, and broccoli is a hit. My friends were a carnivore. The steak and the gourmet plus meals is fantastic, that even after reheating, it's not dry or tough. These meals are perfect for when you're on the go or just want to enjoy the summer some without the hassle of cooking. Factor takes the stress out of meal planning and delivers high quality restaurant-worthy meals right to your door. I hate leaving my house. It's perfect. What the heck are you waiting for? Head to Factor75.com, but click the link below and use code Real Rejects 50 to get 50% off your first factor box.

And 20% off your next month of orders. It's code real rejects 50F Factor 75.com to get 50% off your first box plus 20% off your next orders. Trust me, you don't want to miss this. And I do feel like some of the, and again, like with some of the retreading, I want to say how it plays out ultimately. It's only a couple episodes in. And it makes sense it would, but like, you know, season two, oh, I got to get Becca and Becca has a son. I got to get them out. And season three, I got to take care of Ryan.

Now I got to go save Ryan again. And I'm like, I. It makes sense that, like, a word ended that he would want to save Ryan. It does. But I'm like, okay, yeah, some of this is starting to feel like too familiar. But if they kill off Butcher, I think it would be, I could see them killing off Butcher before they kill off Homelander. I could see that shit. And I also see the Homelander recklessness growing.

And I'm curious if that's what it becomes, is that crazy season five. Yeah. So I'm wondering if by the pay, by the ultimate arc of it, if it's going to be. Because I remember, that's the one thing with reacting to a show is like sometimes you start saying, like, I wonder how I, I've learned to say right now here I'm saying, but that could totally change. We had that with Gen V, there was a lot of times we were like, I don't know about that arc. And they were like, there's arc which. I remember watching Maeve on this channel in season two and like bitching so much about her.

And then suddenly I was like, you're fucking awesome. And it was like towards the end. And sometimes that's the art. It's them like manipulating you. So we know that we're reacting only to the press. Yeah. So I'm like, and I feel like whenever they're retreading, they must know that there's some familiarity here. Yeah.

And then they're going to toy with it in a. different way. But yeah, I guess the naked fight stuff was like fun. Eric Kripke bringing on his friends. Sometimes it does feel a little bit like it seems like

they're kind of weird. Sometimes that that like sexual shock value. It's not so shocking anymore with this with his world. It feels more like a meme of the universe. It feels like one of their checkboxes they have to do. They get a certain amount. Like the requisite. I just probably killed Koi and they didn't even let him be alive.

I didn't know his name was Koi when he was alive. They're so. few coys. There's Owen Wilson's character in Inherent Vice. There's Luke Perry, whose real name was Coy, and now this guy, and he's gone, too. There's so few of us. Oh, it's okay. It's because you're destined to be the only one.

Every time a Coy dies, you amass their power. Yes, I now have stunt coordinator abilities. Sounds like a fish you want to crush. Yeah. I support that. And fillet. No. The Deep respects fish. That's true. Well, I'm excited for episode 3 because I do feel like they

structured the show to have a big moment at the end of three. So I'm curious if this feels like kind of an arc by the time we get to three because they released them all at once. And I like to shift in dynamics just to I guess wrap this one as as much as I think you may be commented like Butcher is kind of off to the

side as more of a support is more of a used in moderation presence. As is Huey and that's I feel like been a more prominent thing with Huey especially as of season three and others. You know I do agree that I started to care more about what he's

going through here, but I don't generally like the device of characters just like, I'm just going to say something out loud from my personal arc that has nothing to do with the rest of the scene. I get the functionality, but it rarely reads as

authentic to me. And so those couple moments where they did that here, I was like, I feel like we could do something with Huey that makes him more of a character than just a plot line, which I hope happens as things move on. But yeah, yeah, yeah. At least a solid, and it's the, you know, I feel like with the boys, they drop three at a time to get you started, and this is act two of three to get act one of the whole season out of the way.

Yeah, I feel like we're in the middle of the first act, and that's about to be kick off. So, yeah, it'll all kind of maybe hopefully come into clearer, sharper focus when we watch episode three of season four. But guys, what did y'all think of this one? What other supernatural actor slash character do you want, do you want Kevin? to come in next we've had dean we've had chuck we've had bobby who else do you want from the supernatural world who's not jared padd alecky in the boys leave it down in the comments and uh tune in for episode three probably already out on the channel or soon to be up go eric horseman eric this month we are going out of our way to immediately tell the audience

that whichever patron or shout at that time what celebrity they most remind us of and wow it's not even like a second guess which celebrity you remind us of like who else would it be other than Nathan Lane lane because let's face it man you're a funny sardonic sassy gay guy you've got timing for days you've got a sense of style even when you're not trying too hard and even when you're out here trying to make a difference. And even though you're

cynical, you still manage to uplift spirits. That's why you're Nation Lane over here. People love Nathan Lane. Nathan Lane makes the people happy. You are the Nathan Lane of our Patreon. That's a great title to bestow.

That's the lane I want to live in. It's the Nathan. Oh, there's a lane he wants to live in you. You know what I mean? Oh, you know he do. That's right. And we are the same gender. It all works out.

It does work out. I see now. Dude, don't die yet. Don't. I will visit you. I said the same thing to Nathan Lane when I'm out. Don't die yet. I'm going to come to visit you.

You're going to tell me all about mouse hunt. And that's his most famous movie. That's his most famous movie. I'm doubtfully, mouse like. It's Eric's favorite movies, Mouse Hunt. Absolutely. Absolutely. Dude, I mean, let's face it, when you're looking at the bird cage, are you Robin Williams or Nathan Lane? You're easily between that company. You're the Nathan Lane there. And I'm so happy that we have a Nathan Lane right here at our Patreon page. Let's face it, we need one.

Everybody should have one, but not everybody gets one. And he wouldn't get one. We'd get one. Actually, it might be the most like a mouse hunt because he loves animals. He does. He's vegan. He protects animals. And in that movie, he learned to befriend the mouse. Spoilers for mouse hunt. He doesn't actually succeed in killing the mouse. Ratatoui ripped it off. He does.

That's what he's doing in all through Ratatoui. He's trying to murder the mouse. Yep. Yeah, yeah, Linguini. He's just all constantly trying to chop them up and put him in that stew. Horror sore. That's the real legend. Ratatouys based on.

But not Eric, but not Eric wouldn't do it. Eric? You're the real one. He's a real one, man. The real one. Thanks for being. Friend to the rats. It's time to tackle toxic masculinity with Outside the Manosphere,

a podcast where two friends get to know each other better while unpacking what it means to be a man today. How do you balance strength with vulnerability, confidence with humility? How do you stay ambitious without becoming an asshole? And is it really so hard to admit that it's Patrick's, Swayze you love and dirty dancing. Listen to Outside the Manosphere on Spotify today.