The Boys Season 3 Premiere Review
In its third season, The Boys still occupies an odd space in the pop culture landscape: a project that both satirizes superheroes and embraces their stories. That's not to say the show is getting to be stale; far from it. Within the first episode of the season, fans are given all of the elements they have come to expect from the show: shots at superhero movies, superpowers being used for (extremely graphic) sexual purposes, and plenty of visceral blood and gore.
This being The Boys, however, all of those recognizable elements are just window dressing for some insightful, if sometimes obvious, social commentary. The show isn't always quite as clever as it thinks it's being with what it has to say about the state of the world, but it at least has a lot of fun in delivering its messages, which thankfully don't bog down the story.
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Underneath all of its more superficial elements, though, there is still a beating heart, embodied mostly by Hughie (Jack Quaid) and Starlight's (Erin Moriarty) ongoing relationship. In fact, things are going very well for Hughie. Since the last time fans checked in, it's been a year and Hughie has a comfortable job at the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs. There, he works directly with Victoria Neuman (last seen exploding heads in season 2).
Just because he has an office job doesn't mean Hughie isn't still working with his regular crew, however. Butcher (Karl Urban), Frenchie (Tomer Capone), and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) are still hunting down supes, albeit this time trying to keep things on the books by working with the Bureau. Mother's Milk (Laz Alonso) has chosen to forego the life of supe-hunting in order to spend time with his
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