The Boys Season 3's Butcher & Maeve Relationship Explained By Creator
WARNING: Spoilers ahead for The Boys season 3, episode 5
The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke explains the surprising sex scene and what may be a budding relationship between Butcher and Maeve in season 3. Based on Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic series of the same name, Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys follows Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid), and the eponymous vigilante group as they combat corrupt superheroes. At the end of season 2, Queen Maeve/Maggie Shaw (Dominique McElligott) managed to blackmail Homelander — the show's satirical take on Superman — into leaving Butcher and his crew alone.
At the beginning of The Boys season 3, however, it’s revealed that Maeve and Butcher have actually been working together to try and find a way to kill Homelander. The former gives the latter three vials of Temp-V or V-24, leveling the playing field by giving its user powers for 24 hours. Following Butcher and Hughie’s super-powered excursion in Russia, episode 5, “The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies,” sees Maeve bring Butcher more V-24. Feeling defeated, the pair then get drunk and have sex—which very few people likely saw coming.
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In a recent interview with TVLine, Kripke explains that moment between Butcher and Maeve. According to the showrunner, the encounter was inspired by the “grimy” scene from Monster’s Ball, when Billy Bob Thorton and Halle Berry’s characters hook up amid their grief. Read the full quote below:
“The writers talked about that moment as like desperate and a little grimy. We talked about Monster’s Ball when Billy Bob Thorton and Halle Berry hook up and it’s just so grimy because they’re both mourning deaths. So, we talked
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