The Boys Season 3 Episode 8 Review

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It seems like the point that The Boys has been trying to make since the first episode of the series is that there really isn't any such thing as a hero. At the very least, the point of the series has been that having special abilities doesn't make someone a hero. In fact, it feels as though Season 3 has leaned a little too hard into the «people with no powers are always good» concept. To the show's credit, there was at least one super-powered person who really had morals and ethics. It just seems like the idea of this season of The Boys could have been handled with a little softer touch.

The same can be said for what this season and this episode did as far as its satire. It's no secret that The Boys has always been satirical but one of the things that made previous seasons so good was that everything seemed a bit too on the nose these days. That was especially the case when this latest episode wrapped up with what was very obviously supposed to be yet another nod to Trump. This time it was an «I could kill someone in Time's Square and get away with it» comment from a few years back.

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While it still seems that for the most part, Trump actually doing that would be met with enough pushback that he'd go to jail, the scene in The Boys is the severe right-wing version of that scenario, complete with cheering after a murder. There was certainly a reason for that scene to be important for the series moving forward, if for no other reason than it continues to show that things are only going to sink a little deeper into the Fascism muck that the show has been wading into all season. It just once again feels like things could be handled with a lighter touch.

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