The Reel Rejects - THE BOYS 4x6 Breakdown & Review!!!

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Starting point is 00:01:44 Get yoked. Go-woke, get yoked. All right, guys, if you're listening to us on Apple or Spotify, we just watch the boys' season for episode six. that was an experience every one of these from four on has left me wrecked like as soon as we're done

Starting point is 00:02:04 I'm like all right I need a little nap yeah the shower for this to come just a week after the debates that's fun that's fun none of that stuff came out

Starting point is 00:02:15 what he's talking about this is all very removed from reality yeah what do you mean ripped from the headlines what headlines if only they hadn't filmed this months ago and that's a problem

Starting point is 00:02:23 we've cycled through over and over again society, culture, and politics? I mean, we are repeating some stuff from a few years ago. I am. We are, but I do remain continually kind of surprised at just how current some of their commentary winds up being. Even Carl Urban's brainworms. That's the other kid.

Starting point is 00:02:43 You know, it's just picking up relevance as time goes in. Bringing it back to a global pandemic. Oh, man, what a harrowing episode. Yeah, that was like skin crawling. in ways I didn't expect. I love that. That might be my favorite episode of the season, honestly. I think four is mine still, but I love that the payoff of the emotional trauma that Huey just went through with his family is now compounded by physical trauma.

Starting point is 00:03:09 Like the brokenness of Huey, like I feel like so many people don't give mental health as much due as physical health, obviously, especially, you know, modern day in our country. We're getting better, like we're talking about therapy and stuff. But I feel like people won't understand until you see. something horrible visually happened to someone so the poor Huey had to get like assaulted visually in that now he's like I'm not good guys there's something to like the one two

Starting point is 00:03:34 punch yeah I feel like Jack Quaid's performance and last episode and combined with this one has been some of the best Huey performance that Jack Wade has had to offer in the last couple of seasons honestly I think it's the quietest we've been during the boys yeah the moment

Starting point is 00:03:50 of just now that like we didn't have anything to say we just breathe the day yeah well and too like his his character feels even though he's not the like lion's share of the time or like you know the protagonist eyeline as much as he was before like this season certainly feels like it's been utilizing him in a more interesting way again yeah i love what they did at tech night because he's he's so like uh you laugh at him a lot in gen v and that appearance right and then even we start showing up here and initially you're just kind of laughing at the guy and while some of that you know things to laugh at him still carry through in these I don't know what words are okay and not okay yeah I'm like I never get this correct I guess so this we're fine freaking it's YouTube so weird um the dominating scenes I'll just say that the dom scenes the dungeon scenes like that was actually intense and scary and funny in ways that were intentionally funny and funny in ways

Starting point is 00:04:54 because you're uncomfortable. I thought that was a really nice usage. I like when you could take a character and just elicit a very different reaction from the audience to what you're watching. A part of your brain is kind of aware. They're probably not going to kill off Huey. At the same time, it's just to be...

Starting point is 00:05:13 I think what this episode did such a good job of doing is I found myself as a human being being like in this world of soups, I would just be Huey. in the situation as a human being and I would be absolutely terrified of like how to proceed with the situation so I thought there was

Starting point is 00:05:30 like a lot of fear induced as well and I was really impressed with just the affect of tech night in this particular episode I was thinking at the very end oh similar to what you're saying I never thought there's

Starting point is 00:05:46 two more episodes or three or whatever we're at I never thought oh they have another season I never thought the usual I'm watching a show and I'm aware of the business of it like I do in most things inevitably in the back of my head the entire time I was like

Starting point is 00:05:59 butcher my brain kept assessing the situation in real time which I think is what you're saying but it was really impressive that multiple storylines A, B and C plot I was so invested in

Starting point is 00:06:10 I didn't consider what else was happening because it was so stimulating with trauma that I wasn't considering our reality or even the other plot that wasn't on screen

Starting point is 00:06:19 at no point was I thinking like, oh, we got to go back to blah, blah, blah. I was just like, oh, right, someone else is in trouble. And that's really good TV when you can balance that many through lines and keep each of them investable. Yeah, I loved the whole party scene too. So tense. Especially with Homeland or thinking he could just rally these billionaires off the same talking points that they use it to manipulate the masses. And what they use to manipulate each other?

Starting point is 00:06:42 It's like, no, we're the one that do that. Yeah, yeah. We wrote this book. That lady who steps it is like, what does she say enough with the boogie? man shit like we know none of this shit really matters like i love that newman speech that was so great and to see the necessity that he would that he needs for like a sage and a newman in a situation like that and to be saved by a woman in that moment and to be undermined that was great uh i i think the way they demonstrated that is like just the illustration of everything they did in this one

Starting point is 00:07:15 almost played like because it all takes place outside of butcher there's all all primarily just takes place at this one mansion. Yeah, Wayne Tyner is like everything. Yeah, it's like this one location and even though the manor supposed to be large, they only stayed to a couple of rooms the entire time. And they still managed to, so... But it never

Starting point is 00:07:34 felt small. No. Yeah. What I've been really impressed by this season is I love this show and I've talked about like how the first three episodes I had to like reintegrate back into it. But four or five and now this episode, they've done such a good job referencing the comics, referencing comic culture,

Starting point is 00:07:49 the jabs at like, you know, the greater MCU, DC, all that stuff was like how the show started and politically heavy. This season has really been impressive in the last few episodes. Doing like that Batman's Superman faceoff was so deserved to the character arcs, but also you're aware

Starting point is 00:08:05 that it's doing a Batman Superman knot. And also it's putting you in a different position with the plot while also giving the actors fun to do to build their own arcs. Like it's juggling so many different things simultaneously while pushing the overall story forward without being like oh look at this cameo like my big issue where we are with superhero culture

Starting point is 00:08:24 2024 is so often a cameo is just to have TikTok excited and so often gross out moments in this show felt like they were like we've done a lot we need to keep pushing I've been really impressed this season that the gross out moments have served the plot the superhero stuff has served the plot and everyone arc feels both authentic to the comic in a way like this is adapting the comic very loosely but in some ways a lot better but it's also pushing everyone's arc the narrative so seamlessly. I'm never distracted by it. Yeah. Yeah. Great use of stakes in this one, too.

Starting point is 00:08:55 Oh, yeah. It was sage and the bullet to the head. Oh. That was like really smart because I forgot for, my mind kept thinking it'd be like a Wolverine situation when her when the bullet, uh, when it regenerates heels, that you would be fine to me like, they're here. But I forgot like, oh yeah, this is it going to be a process.

Starting point is 00:09:11 Yeah. That was so smart. Yeah, just like the collision of, it's like the plan itself is precarious, which At first, you're like, guys, this is really a good idea. But I feel like that is very much in the spirit of all the, like, sort of hairbrained operations they come up with. And then things that seem maybe suspect at first in terms of, like, how are you going to get this to pay off? Like, soon led to, yeah, this just like shotgun blast of all these different dominoes falling and overlapping on each other. And I like that this tied all that together in so many ways with that theme of the devil and angel in everyone.

Starting point is 00:09:49 and everyone's sort of quest to separate themselves from some kind of persona and realizing that all those things are kind of intertwined. And one of the other themes, too, which was most, like, overtly stated via through the scene with Deep and Noir, or New Noir, whatever I call it out. Neo-Nois.

Starting point is 00:10:13 Yeah, the new, the news about violence. And so much of this dealt with, like, like power of violence and, you know, sexual domination, obviously. But especially with violence and then even to bring it like a home run with butcher being posed with that question of a genocidal act of, again, the nature of violence. And Starlight's moment of violence and the apology and then still having to do violence. I thought that was an interesting commentary on like, I'm apologizing, I'm sincere, and I got to take it. These are two separate contexts colliding. And I really do love the way they handled that reveal

Starting point is 00:10:51 Because there's some cliches With the way they did the Jeffrey D. Morgan review I don't think we need that anymore in movies and shows You cut back to be like He wasn't there I think you're like John only Jess saw Fight Club I don't know you know

Starting point is 00:11:07 You know I'm like I never seen the Trump anywhere else It's only Jesse It's only five clothes Is it not? I don't think you need to do that before. And secret window.

Starting point is 00:11:21 And granted, like, we, Aaron posed that question to us, but it seems like a lot of people were already thinking that. Like, I tried not to read the internet. I asked that question in the comments of like, do you guys see Jeffrey and Morgan's?

Starting point is 00:11:33 And like, everyone was like, yeah, it's obvious, you know. And I, from having two shows in the past week that have big reveals that are very obvious.

Starting point is 00:11:44 Sure. One on acolyte and then one here. What do you mean? I think like story, even though they're both treated with like, oh, my God. But if we're like, yeah, we know. Thanks, though. Thanks. I think this just like drove it home in a much more.

Starting point is 00:12:00 I love how he was like, if you're, I'm thinking it, that means you're thinking it. Whatever I'm thinking, that means I'm you. Like, I love the way they drove that home. And I felt like the usage of Jeffrey Dean Morgan here, like casting him for that was perfect. I felt like in this story of this the one thing that I thought was a little bit not as impactful and it felt a little bit repetitive even though you do get some new lines of dialogue and exploration of what happened with Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character in the past was that scene I felt like tonal like pacing wise and and it just felt like a little bit more of

Starting point is 00:12:37 the same for me with the butcher scenes but by the time you got to that final scene it was worth it. Yeah, I was like, wow, this is really worth it. And it's still, again, the word affect, it still really gets to you. Yeah. Well, I thought the way they handled the visual language of the present moment of Butcher putting it together and that whole pan around of like, you have Jeffrey Dean Morgan and then he's in the same shot as Becca. And then they're all three in the same shot. And then you realize the line, like the language of the actual moment of that was nice. And I think why the montage didn't bug me that much was because it didn't seem like it was a, oh shit, look at all these

Starting point is 00:13:10 re contextualized moments. It felt more like, oh, he's been looking crazy this whole time. He's been pouring out, you know, liquor on the table. So, like, I thought it helped. It at least served that purpose of like, oh, butcher seems more unhinged than ever, even though we kind of know already that this is happening. That's fair. That's fair

Starting point is 00:13:26 point. And I like, I like the idea of using it comedically so it doesn't feel like it's treating us dumb. Like, I like that it's... I feel like they probably know that it's not going to be that big of a crazy, like, thing you wouldn't see coming, and it's more about how you punctuate that particular moment. And I guess the only thing I would have liked on top of that plot line was maybe

Starting point is 00:13:43 because he is so adamant and that speech is pretty strong, that whole idea of, I am literally your subconscious mind telling you this is what we want. It would have been nice to have maybe a little bit more meat on the Becca bone just because the whole time she kind of just shows up. That's where I feel like that's repetitive is Becca. Yeah, because she's just always like, hey, you know, do the good thing. And there's not really like much debate on top of that. Just do good.

Starting point is 00:14:07 Because he is such a character, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, in his small doses. And a lot of the time, he has similar things to do anyway. But, yeah, I would have liked more, like, because they're so in love and she is the sole guiding force of his benevolence, it would have been nice to at least have more on that. And I don't know if maybe as this progresses, we'll get a little bit more resolve with them in the next two episodes. And I think there's only two left. That seemed with A-Train saving. Like, yeah, I thought this was so tense.

Starting point is 00:14:35 when they held on him a second longer they knew that we were going to think he was going to die in that moment I was like Homelander's going to be above him like they held just long enough to trick us into like movie language Exactly I thought like Don't you watch us watch him Yeah

Starting point is 00:14:48 Yeah well in the homeland like Because there are things where you're like How would they not know or whatever But I think they do nicely in the show To kind of sell it by the fact that Homelander is like very much When he's like focused on or stressed about something He's probably going to have all his attention on that

Starting point is 00:15:02 And so like these little things could a thousand percent could plausibly happen under his nose yeah well the a train like that's another great thing that i think they do that i felt like maybe it's something i just haven't noticed as strongly before and i imagine they've always done it i think normally when we're talking about each episode here we always talk about the theme of whatever the episode is about and we normally don't do that with the shows that we're covering i've noticed that there's like usually a different theme per episode and and i think the way they they they they in intrinsically tie it all in to have a moment where a train gets to be a hero and then to then follow it up a few minutes later with butcher being posed with this question of killing all soups when there was a time we were like yeah do that but then to see no there's actually that's like an actual visual of here's why soups can be necessary yeah you wanted to kill even one of the ones that like took out hughie's girl like one specifically one you

Starting point is 00:16:04 You just helped your team in a huge way. Yeah. Yeah, that was beautiful. And Firecracker breastfeeding. Yeah, Firecracker breastfeeding. Wet nurse firecracker, baby. Well, this has the thing is this seems like the most packed episode, and it's... It feels like they used everyone but Frenchie.

Starting point is 00:16:22 I think they had to put Frenchie in prison just to make this episode work. I feel like French. Because everyone's like, oh, it's Frenchie subplot. They're like, just tuck them away. Well, and that's the thing, too, is like his absence, while not looming large over the episode in a distracting way, like they punctuate his absence. His presence in absence. And I think he's going to get his big hero moment when he gets out.

Starting point is 00:16:41 I think we're going to have like a Frenchy return. Like we'll have a big moment, I think, with him. Yeah, but just the amount of ground this episode covered in a way that didn't feel rushed or smushed together. And it felt like, again, Sands Frenchie, we got moments with pretty much everyone on the ensemble. And even like, yeah, the noir deep scene is like the only scene they're in for a couple times we cut back to it. And even that is like a great.

Starting point is 00:17:04 little moment that leaves an impact. The A-Train Saving Mother's Milk is a great small moment that leaves an impact. Newon speech is one of the best scenes I've seen for her, and that kind of culminates all of her own. Yeah, I think this is 100% my favorite episode. Everyone gets a moment. A lot of people get a moment to really shine,

Starting point is 00:17:20 whereas, like, episode four is amazing, but I mainly just think of the Homelander story. Like, I honestly can't even recall what else happens. Well, that's the thing is, it's so beautifully, like, I would love to look at the script for this, because this so beautifully, like, takes care of and progresses so much

Starting point is 00:17:36 of the serialized plot work and it takes so many of like the little details and themes that have been established. It builds on those. It ups the ante on certain shock value things. And it also manages with all those continuous pieces to create little beats, you know, little moments in between all that

Starting point is 00:17:52 where it's not like calm in the midst of a storm. But yeah, like those little pockets where you are just arrested by a singular moment that's not like maybe as I don't know, yeah, it's like a great macro and micro, you know, exploration. avoided being too political so everyone can enjoy it. Yes, it did. It did. You know, it's

Starting point is 00:18:08 for all ages. No, for all people. Yeah, yeah. It appeals to the... It's a broad demographic show. Intersectional show. You know, especially this political season. I'm glad that this is going to be what you watch after the debates. Seeing both sides. That beautiful shot at the end with the flags and just the nursing

Starting point is 00:18:24 was... That was the painting. Like, if I was going to have a desktop screen server. And we got, what's his name? We got Spider-Man. Oh, my God. Zendaya. Maybe one of my favorite jokes this season. My God. Great matter joke.

Starting point is 00:18:38 And the whole thing with Tech Night and the whole, like, how do you torture a masochist is so great. How do you actually get him to not be into the torture? I love that Alfred knew. And he got to have his day. And sadly, like, you know, it won't play like an accident. And they take care of that right away. Like the things they feed you little bits of hope with and then what they choose to let you keep hoping on versus what they immediately dash the hopes of is fascinating.

Starting point is 00:19:07 And like, you know, this whole, you know, fulcrum point that Cracker is in where she's like, I know about Starlight, but also now I'm establishing my, you know, I'm ingratiating myself directly to you, Homelander, like I wonder how this will kick off the next episode. Ah, man, I'm really worried about Sister Sage. I'm worried about Atrain. I love the scene with sister. I'm sad for her, even though she's a villain. I love the scene, too, when Sister Sage gets vulnerable.

Starting point is 00:19:32 Oh, the grandmother. beach. It really shows a lot of her core wound and her driving force. She also seems to genuinely, at least to the level she can, respect Newman. Yeah. And that's like the only person because she just controls and manipulates everyone.

Starting point is 00:19:48 But I think she sees like, ah, smart, capable superhero woman. Yeah, she identifies with that. Yeah. It was really cool to see her open up to someone that she felt was worthy. And that's great because when she had to take the back seat, because she was all like brain dead at the time, without that talk Newman wouldn't have stepped in it. Yeah, so she's still

Starting point is 00:20:05 being the mastermind in a way. Yeah, she still influenced the moment. God. Good show. I just, what I didn't understand was why she was like egging on mother's milk so much of that degree.

Starting point is 00:20:17 Was it to distract him so she could run and punch the, like, yeah. Is that all she was trying to do? Yeah, she's just trying to overwhelm him. She probably, if she observed that much about his life, she probably knows. Well, she also poked at his wound.

Starting point is 00:20:29 She said like your daughter's developing OCD, you notice that like you're ruining her life like the thing she was saying were his weak points like she was she was five-figure death punching him and i feel like she would have anticipated getting shot i think she thought she'd overwhelm him more i think she was counting on the fact that he wouldn't shoot her in the face but i just think she's like so smart i mean she's not a she's not a soothsayer like she's intelligent but like she can't bring him she probably did the one thing she could with no weapon to try and overpower him is my is how i read that Yeah, if you look at Mother's Milk Weakness, it's his family.

Starting point is 00:21:03 So she manipulated that vast data she had. And, like, now you're in the leadership position. Think of all the things that could go wrong from this. Like, think of all the trouble you're creating in your own life and now how much more could escalate from that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man, love it. 10 out of 10, guys. Great show.

Starting point is 00:21:20 Great, great stuff. What do you guys think about this episode? Leave your thoughts in the comments down below. How do you think this season is going to end? who do you think's going to die? Leave your thoughts in the comments. Thank you so much again for being here and supporting us. Can't wait to see you again for next week.

Starting point is 00:21:38 Cheers.

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