The long-awaited fourth season of the Prime Video sequence, The Boys, premieres on June 13, 2024
Final summer time’s Hollywood strikes delayed quite a few releases, amongst them the fourth season of Prime Video’s The Boys. We’re longtime followers of this extremely violent, darkly humorous anti-homage to superheroes, and thus are thrilled to see there’s lastly an official trailer for S4. It is crammed with the bloody mayhem we have come to anticipate from the present, in addition to a tantalizing glimpse of the chief villain, Homelander (Antony Starr), performing in what seems to be an ice skating extravaganza.
(Spoilers for prior seasons under, particularly S3.)
As I’ve written beforehand, the present relies on the comedian guide sequence of the identical title by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The Boys is about in a fictional universe the place superheroes are actual however are corrupted by company pursuits and a poisonous celebrity-obsessed tradition. Probably the most elite superhero group is named the Seven, operated by the Vought Company, which created the supes with a substance known as Compound V. The Seven is headed up by Homelander, a violent and unstable psychopath disguised because the All-American hero. Homelander’s counterpart as the pinnacle of the titular “Boys” is Billy Butcher (Karl City), a self-appointed vigilante intent on checking the unhealthy habits of the Seven—particularly Homelander, who brutally raped Butcher’s spouse, Becca (Shantel VanSanten), unknowingly fathering a son, Ryan, within the course of..
Having found he had a son, Homelander turned Ryan in opposition to Butcher in S2, which ended with a bloody showdown that noticed the demise of Becca in addition to the mutilation of Homelander’s supe squeeze, Stormfront (Aya Money), who turned out to be a Nazi disguised as a “patriot.” (She dedicated suicide in S3.) Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) and Starlight (Annie Moriarty) efficiently blackmailed Homelander into loosening his bullying stranglehold on the Seven. In the meantime, the federal government cleared the Boys of all wrongdoing after they have been publicly smeared as terrorists. A disillusioned Hughie (Jack Quaid) determined to attempt to combat the Seven by politics somewhat than violence and went to work for Congressperson Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit)—however he did not know she’s really a super-powered murderer along with her personal murderous agenda.
The third season launched us to “Payback,” the title of an earlier Vought group of superheroes, loosely primarily based on Marvel’s Avengers. Payback members embody Eagle the Archer (Langston Kerman), who appeared in S2 of The Boys . He is the one who recruited the Deep (Chace Crawford) and A-Practice (Jessie T. Usher) to the Church of the Collective earlier than the cult turned in opposition to him. By S3 he’d give up the superhero gig and was attempting to develop into a rapper. We additionally met Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and Crimson Countess (Laurie Holden), and a complete episode was dedicated to one of many comedian’s most surprising storylines: Herogasm, by which the Boys infiltrated Vought’s annual superhero social gathering, which turned out to be only one lengthy weekend of kinky intercourse and drug use on a secluded island.
The third season ended with Homelander killing one among Starlight’s supporters who attacked Ryan throughout a rally—and somewhat than being roundly condemned, the gang cheered wildly, and Homelander realized simply how few constraints there have been on his psychopathic habits. Soldier Boy (who turned out to be Homelander’s organic father) ended up in authorities custody, Maeve was presumed useless however really simply misplaced her powers, and Annie/Starlight left the Seven to hitch forces with The Boys. As for Butcher, he had been juicing with V24, a model of Compound V that quickly gave people tremendous powers—at a value. By season’s finish, Butcher realized he was dying.
That brings us to the fourth season. Per the official premise:
The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is nearer than ever to the Oval Workplace and below the muscly thumb of Homelander, who’s consolidating his energy. Butcher, with solely months to reside, has misplaced Becca’s son and his job as The Boys’ chief. The remainder of the group are fed up along with his lies. With the stakes increased than ever, they should discover a method to work collectively and save the world earlier than it’s too late.
The trailer opens with a presumably doomed Butcher doing a little soul-searching about how he is lived his life. “All I see are the messes I’ve made,” he says whereas we’re proven the scene the place Ryan leaves with a smirking Homelander. “And I ain’t obtained time to repair it.” He figures he has an opportunity to do one factor proper however he wants The Boys’ assist to succeed.
In the meantime, Homelander is flaunting his energy, insisting that the nation “is corrupt past restore.” His plans for the nation’s “salvation” naturally contain violence: doing horrible issues “for the larger good.” So the Seven should now cease being beloved celebrities and as a substitute develop into “wrathful gods.” Not everyone seems to be on board with Homelander’s technique, notably A-Practice and Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie), however there’s not a lot they’ll do to cease the Supes from rounding up any recalcitrant people and placing them in camps—or declaring “searching season on Starlighters.”
Humanity’s solely hope seems to relaxation in Butcher’s discovery of a virus that may kill Supes, first launched within the spinoff sequence, Gen V. However first they will should combat off violent superpowered chickens and livestock which have been injected with Compound V—and one way or the other keep away from turning into the very evil they’re attempting to defeat.
The primary three episodes of The Boys S4 premieres on June 13, 2024, on Prime Video, with subsequent episodes airing every week till the finale on July 18, 2024.
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