Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys returns for a third season on June 3. The incisive and hyperviolent superhero satire’s second season wrapped with a mind-blowing reveal — and, judging by the trailers for season 3, that’s going to be far from the show’s last.
The third season will add even more new characters and storylines, including Jensen Ackles as Soldier Boy, a Captain America-like figure who predates Homelander (Antony Starr). To give you a leg up on all these developments, Polygon’s put together this speedy refresher on the ending of season 2.
The anti-supe team began season 2 already divided, but the finale episode, “What I Know,” sent them all on diverging paths. Hughie (Jack Quaid), M.M. (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon), and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) were in hiding while Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) made his way back to them in order to get back to Becca (Shantel VanSanten), who he found out was still alive at the end of season 1.
The ideological split between Hughie and Butcher grew ever wider — the youngest member of the Boys remained adamant that supes can be taken down the “right” way, while Butcher was still prepared to do anything in his quest for revenge, including capturing Becca and Homelander’s son, Ryan (Cameron Crovetti), to get back at Homelander.
In “What I Know,” Hughie left the team to work with Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit), the new head (heh) of the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs. Little does he know that the congresswoman is actually the mysterious brain-popping assassin who took out the CIA’s Susan Raynor (Jennifer Esposito), former Vought science officer Jonah Vogelbaum (John Doman), Church of the Collective leader Alastair Adana (Goran Visnjic), and a bunch of other people at the
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