Amazon Prime Video’s subversive superhero series The Boys has become a breakthrough hit for the streaming service. It’s had a successful second season with a third on the way. After the show featured stories with superhero sex clubs, bloody murder and literal Nazis, fans are wondering what outrageous stuff it has in store.
“I’m not sure there is a line,” producer-director Phil Sgriccia said on a recent episode of The Boys official podcast, hosted by journalist Tim Kash. “We’ve got some stuff planned in Season 3 that’s even more pushing of the envelope… Every time we get to a line and say ‘Can we do that? I guess so.’ Might as well try and ask for forgiveness later.”
We already know that the third season will feature an episode called “Herogasm,” about an event where superheroes supposedly gather so they can combine forces to defeat a mighty supervillain, but really it’s a Vought-sponsored orgy. Sounds very The Boys. Showrunner Eric Kripke showed his reaction to the episode online:
Actual photo of me reacting during our first production meeting for the #Herogasm episode.#TheBoys #TheBoysTV @TheBoysTV @PrimeVideo @SPTV #SPNFamily pic.twitter.com/YdCHVj9rAU
— Eric Kripke (@therealKripke) April 14, 2021
In any case, it doesn’t sound like the team is getting much pushback from Amazon now, although in the early days there were discussions about stuff like the superheroes engaging in…um, acts of self-pleasure. “It was just different,” said co-executive producer Seth Rogen. “But once it came out and in general people accepted it and saw that we had a good gauge as to what was and was not something people would like to see on television… If anything I’m amazed at what they let us do.”
Come season 3, we’ll also finally get to see Dawn of the Seven, the superhero event movie clearly meant to parody real-life team-up films like The Avengers and Justice League. “I loved writing ‘Dawn of the Seven’ dialogue,” Kripke said. “It’s my favorite thing. You have to walk this fine line of bad but not so bad. ‘Dawn of the Seven’ seems like the worst movie. It’s got this weird prologue with this drug dealer and somehow there are mutants. When you try and place all the pieces together it makes no sense.”
A spin-off of The Boys is coming
Due to the popularity of the show, Amazon has already decided to branch out and create a spin-off series set at a superhero college run by Vought International, where young competitive Supes compete to land the best contracts in the best cities. Deadline reports that Brockmire alumna Reina Hardesty will has joined the cast.
The 25-year-old actress already has a pretty impressive superhero résumé. Back in season 5 of The Flash, she portrayed Jocelyn Jackam, aka Weather Witch. She also played the same character in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. But The Boys is an entirely different kind of superhero show.
At the moment, Hardesty’s role is being kept firmly under lock and key. She joins an already loaded cast that includes Lizze Broadway, Shane Paul McGhie, Maddie Phillips, Jaz Sinclair and Aimee Carrero.
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