The Boys Season 3 Episode 7 Review
The third season of The Boys has had a bit of an up and down run as it sets up for what is almost certainly going to be a pretty massive finale. While it's true that it would be near impossible to follow up last week's Herogasm with the same level of energy. In fact, the argument that the show had to slow things down a bit and kind of reload. However, the penultimate episode does more than just slow things down. It seems to actually waste time. It also seems like a weird time to fill in the backstory of one of the main characters on the show. While one of the backstories does indeed fill in just what happened with Homelander when he was handed over to the Russians, the backstory of Butcher seems like little more than filler.
The Boys also seems to be paying the piper when it comes to having too many balls in the air. There are too many characters and too many storylines to follow everything all that closely. While this episode does seem to be focusing on wrapping up some of the side stories, there are far too many plots that are wrapped up rather quickly and the way they are wrapped up is by basically hitting the reset button.
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The reset button is especially smashed down when it comes to The Deep and A-Train. It turns out that Amazon Prime Video's version of Aquaman had to make a choice between his wife or a squid and he made the wrong choice. It appears that means next season will have him running solo again. Then there's A-Train who survived his run in with Blue Hawk thanks in part to the fact that he killed the racist Supe and ended up being given his heart. There are obviously questions about just what shape that heart would have been in, being scraped across the pavement for a
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