The Reel Rejects - THE BOYS 4x7 Breakdown & Review!!!

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

CRAZY FIGHT SCENE!! The Boys Season 4 Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Save Money & Cancel Unwanted Subscriptions By Going To https://rocketmoney.com/rejects Heavy Spoilers ahead as A-Train, Mother's Milk, Butcher, & Starlight VS. The Deep & Black Noir In The Boys Reaction, Recap, Commentary, Analysis, Spoiler Review, Theories, Easter Eggs, & Ending Explained! The Deep kills his octopus girlfriend Ambrosia (Tilda Swinton), Webweaver death scene at the hands of Homelander & Firecracker, Frenchie returns leading to a wild scene with saving Kimiko from the virus, Ryan stands up on the seven muppets parody series, a shapeshifter villain leaves us in a crazy cliffhanger after engaging with Hughie, Sister Sage is fired, meanwhile Butcher continues to debate with Joe Kessler (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) whilst Ashley falls apart. 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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for listening to us on Spotify or elsewhere. They couldn't watch the video along with us. I have a lot to say, but I want to know what John thought first. This was intense.

And I don't know how they're going to wrap all this up by the end of the season, but it's usually where we find ourselves. I had a couple of minor little, like, gripey things but for the most part I am a hater I hate the show chill or hater or something in between

no did you love it because if you didn't you hated it no it's uh yeah I my brain feels like butcher's brain because right now I'm like wolf so many bits and pieces I just love that they they directly brought in a supernatural creature and contextualized it to be this this figure but it's also a good like metaphorical character because you know this kind of person could be anyone

and could be molded into this person at any time And is the perfect, you know, instrument to carry out some kind of, you know, act such as this. And so, yeah, like you said, it's nice to see something like this that we have had a recent example of do it in a way where, you know, like as the shoe is dropping, you're like, oh, no, you know, it's like you called it out. But at the same time, it brought that swell of, oh, no, no, please don't tell me that you, you know, wanted to have during something secret invasion. I didn't want to believe it. I was like, don't let him have a happy moment. Like, until we saw the green eyes.

That's why I questioned why she's off camera. Yeah. Even though they're trying misleading us with the suit. I was like, nah, right here. But there's a lot of that. There's no such thing as a loving woman.

That's true. Unless you get her tickets to police. That's the cost. No such thing. Not this laid into a relationship. No, you got to know better. We, by the way, made a social media video expressing our favorite character.

and mine was cut short because I said my real favorite character was Mother's Milk and this episode was exactly why before I get into my mother's milk appreciation Greg what do you think it's it It was exciting It was an exciting It was what people are here for

episode. It was a fun episode I think this was the most fun I have with the darkness that they did this time I loved when the deep I'm a vegetarian I'm an animal lover The main charities I give to are to animals I eat them I don't even fish so I'm naturally inclined

to feel sad during a scene like that for some reason it was hilarious to me. It just because of like it was so absurd in what we were watching of this real like blowout domestic violent fight of him keeping this like octopus trapped here is like the metaphor for a one which is so it's so silly

yeah and it's like deep twisted dark context that but it would like his purpose what's the same Chase Crawford. His performance there was so good because I'm I think it's the thing is like I'm so aware of the performative side of it because I'm like he's not interacting with the real octobos

Tilda Swinnon's probably not on set that he's just having to do all this on his own and I'm like damn he's really selling this and then you're imagining Tilda Swinnon and in the booth doing it. I just see it's like in a mic stand like and then it just goes so dark when he ends up killing her. I don't know why it's so

funny to me like there are some people probably don't find it funny at all but I thought It was funny. Well, because it's so, but that's, that's an element. I think that's an oft overlooked element of movie and cinematic magic is the fact that all the elements have come together to produce something that we are taking quite seriously in construction. And, yeah, it's so absurd when you step back from it. And I think that's one of, this episode did a couple of things, one of which kind of encapsulates one of my less favorite things about the boys and one that capsulates one of my most favorite things in the, and the deep sequence. harsh though it is, is one of those favorite things.

It's like, yeah, I am completely invested in every emotional turn this scene is taking. I want them to somehow work out, this weird little relationship they have. And these two performers are putting so much great work into this. And even that, like you said, they're probably not doing this live on set as we see it here. It's like all those elements come together to create something that, yeah, you're like, this is so strange. And yet it's working on me, you know? Yeah. I want to hear what your negative moment was in a second.

It's a small thing. Okay. Because this episode, I think, really embodies what I like about the show's use of escalation. Like, I think this show really does escalation well. And I keep hearkening back to, like, episode four when things started to really accelerate, five, six. Everything's done this insane, almost exponential escalation.

Because a lot of shows, this would have been the finale. But a lot of shows, episode four would have been the finale. The show does a really good job of, like, pushing its. boundaries and your boundaries as an audience. And I really appreciate that this episode was the culmination of a lot of arcs is a good pernultimate episode and that you don't know how it's going to possibly wrap up

enough in the finale. But it also gave you some moments that are payoffs from way back. Like I really love we both have talked about how much we loved Sister Sage's character, but I really love the payoff of not just her manipulating everyone in the seven, but the only character we had assumed maybe not

was noir. And I love that they saved the reveal of not just that noir and her having an affair, but that she was only lobotomizing herself. So, like, that level of one-two punch joke, where it's a reveal, it's an escalation, but it's also the joke about, like, how dumb,

Deep is to her, and we have that moment of Deep just, you know, murdering, and then the fight, all of that sets up these characters so perfectly. So if Deep was to die in this episode, you'd have been like, yeah, but also he hasn't yet. If you have, you know, sage get killed, there's so many almost justifications that in real

life, you don't know what someone's actually going to do. find so many shows are predictable enough that you know someone has to make it or this character i love that homelander is always one away from murking anybody and i genuinely didn't know if he was going to kill sage if he was if a train was going to die this episode every one of us was going like a train hey train it's really good tv that butcher we don't know if he bites it we don't know if a train bites it sage and and it's really impressive escalation that every week i think like how do they go further well i i feel like we keep thinking a train i've been convinced a train is going die every episode for like two episodes

now I think he makes it next season every episode he's death this episode for sure yeah and they're doing it on purpose they hold on them I'm convinced yeah like there is that tension of any time he like opens the door or something like that but he's gonna he's gonna take it and so good and I've officially got because I haven't it's taking me a long time to get to that side of being

like all right a train I like you it's been a it's been a journey with the guy and then this episode when I found myself really excited when he showed up I was like oh I guess I am on TV That's the moment. Because that just kind of came out of me.

And to have like a one, boys, it doesn't really have like cheering heroic moments. It's kind of few and far between. We're usually like, oh. It's usually laughing at the concept of cheer worth of heroic moments. Gross, scared, intense.

And then to have that moment with a train and then to top it off with Mother's Milk showing up and then wielding the gatling gun, that was like a sweet-ass moment. That's all my favorite fights from the boys. Yeah, and I thought the fight was actually directed Well, I think normally fights in the boys are not well directed.

Like the hand-to-hand stuff, it's normally not great. They wrecked that office, though. But they actually, there was some cool style with camera work. We referenced James Wandering it of the kind of shutter speed and the jarring frame rate and the following of the action, I thought was really well done. Spinning hot heads and stuff. It's cool stuff.

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move on. We don't need this to happen five or six times. I get it. It's gross. It's meme Spider-Man. It's the, what if he was actually biologically more like an actual... And, you know, it's just one of those instincts where I'm like, yeah, this is gross. That scene definitely, like, family guide longer than I liked. Like, that family guy

thing where they do a bit and it just keeps going. And I feel like that was the opposite in the deep bit, where the deep wouldn't have been as funny if they didn't keep having the tilt and switten, like, you think she's dead, gurgle, and I legitimately thought he might save her at one point. And so, like, That is the joke working for me.

And then in the same episode, Spider-Man is the joke not working for me. Because it's just one note. It's just like, oh, he's pathetic and he's nervous. Right. So, like, you know, whereas with the deep, it's like, oh, the further this gets and the more she pleads. The more to brave. The more, yeah, horrible you are. Oh, but I really like the payoff of that with the Homelander Merking.

That was a violent. That was a good kill. I thought this episode also did a really good job with the elevation of Huey as our eyeline. Like, I've always loved that Huey is the eyeline of, the viewer because, you know, from the beginning, he's the one that loses his girlfriend. He gets brought into the world of soups. And I think it was season three. I did feel like we didn't have the Huey storyline as much of an island. I liked their storyline with Huey last season, but it didn't feel like it was how we were seeing into the world. And that's not necessarily a bad

thing. But I've really enjoyed that this season, they gave him the really human storyline. They did the stuff with the family. He's the one that's going through. Yeah, that's what it was. Last season was the one where he got Gen V. And I was like, I feel like he's just being made to be a prick so we have someone to comment on alongside Butcher. It didn't feel natural for Huey. This season I really like that we have him back as we're getting manipulated alongside him. I didn't

I'm an idiot and I was like that's not the shape shifter. I want happiness for him. I wanted him to be happy so much that I was ignoring all of the facts. So I like that we have that connection to Huey again. He's suffering a lot. All of it. Yeah. His dad died. He goes through the torture

of assault to 10 night. He's assaulted. He's assaulted. He's also his Girlfriend is publicly brought to like the worst place and he's trying to help her but he's also dealing with these awful people and he feels like he can't help to a certain point because it's

public like that's awful. Yeah he always like really suffering. It's that he's kind of pretty his character through the ringer. Yeah. A lot. This is probably my favorite butcher performance out of the season. Oh yeah he's having a good time. He's also breaking like just a broken man. It's almost Jack Sparrow.

Very yeah. The swaggered Instead of drunk, it's just his body's failing. Yeah, I think during this episode, I found myself appreciating just how fine a performer Carl Urban is because he does have all the cool and swag that Butcher always has. But like every scene, I'm like, man, especially in these wide shots, like he does look like he is in pain and he's moving like a guy who is not holding together well. And his dialogue is still funny and butcher, but there's a tinge of like, is that the last thing he's going to say? But I can feel how tired he also is. Yeah, I've been really impressed this season. I love where we're going.

I don't know how it's going to wrap up. And I just love the idea that maybe A-Train will go out there and be an actual vigilante superhero or something. I guess everyone in the show is self-serving enough that you imagine maybe he'll just go off the radar entirely. But part of me is like, come on, man, be the one guy who's just actually out here trying to help people out. Be the hero beliefs.

I think they are running out of gas on some storylines, though. What are they? Let's go. Well, I think Fred, I've been saying this is like early on. in this season, Frenchie especially. I think he's got arguably the best line in all the boys. Like, you're no condition, this man's a no condition to fuck a sheep.

A plus. A plus. Plus. And A plus delivery. Everyone involved with that moment, the frame, the delivery of the writing. It's one of the best moments in the end of his best moment. But I feel like as a character in his storyline, they are running out of shit to do with that guy. And in this episode, just the

dismissive side of him being gone and having like no weight. Yeah, he didn't come back to save the day. He was like, I have to do this to save this chemistry set. This conversation has with Kimiko. I'm like, I feel like I've heard variations in this conversation several times now. Yeah. And even with Mother's Milk, as great as a performance as it is,

I'm like, this whole thing with the wife and kid and wanting to be there. I'm like, yeah, we've been doing this a lot. You're running out of, I think you're running out of gas on some of these storylines. I think season five is a good place to end it. Yeah, I think they have to end it. Yeah. I agree. And I think we got a taste of how big season five can be with that superhero.

fight and i think it's going to be fun to see you know i assume gen v's going to come back and we're going to get more superpowered boys uh we're going to get bigger fights and i'm also curious what gen v is going to do between these two seasons because gen v comes out between season four and five the boys so i'm curious what that escalation is and a lot and homelander also falling prey to the wrong woman again just like yeah we've been doing this quite like there's a lot of repetitive things here yeah that i'm like yeah i think you're running out you're running out of gas on some of these storylines. You're deepening a lot of wells that don't offer too much variation

in that deepening. Yeah. And I feel like they could have at everything I'm saying, I'm like, this is what I'll probably get the most pushback for. I think they would have found some way to kill deep in that moment. I feel like that's plausible, but I also don't know if I'm forgetting some kind of rule. Well, they're kind of invincible

in some way, yeah. It's really hard to kill them. I feel like they could have like cut them up or something. Well, his skin would be hard because you can deal with the up part of the ocean. yeah I guess they do have to put a bomb in his butt you gotta put a bomb in his butt you gotta do something yeah gotta keep bombs for butts on the set of the boys and Ryan and we got Ryan yeah like there's some

that's the that is the thing I'm curious to see how the last episode feels because I've been really enjoying this and the last two have had that sort of impressive like man this didn't feel overly rushed and there's so much in here but I'm also like okay but that next episode has to really feel well-rounded and there is kind of so much in here so next week we're going to Washington January 6th very curious how it's going to go It's next week. I'm sure the comments on that will be just as happy as the boys are going to be to do it.

We will find out next week. Thank you for being here. Leave a comment below. Let us know which of these storylines you're enjoying most. Any predictions for next week? Let us know what you're predicting below. Please like this video so we know that you liked this video. Please share it far and wide.

We only have one more season of the boys. We also got GenVe, so we're going to be diving in. We'll see you next week for the finale of the boys season four. Thank you.