Oh no, he’s going to kill everyone, isn’t he?
That’s the impression I get watching the first teaser for the third season of The Boys, which Amazon dropped this morning. It features the superheroes Homelander (Anthony Starr) and Starlight (Erin Moriarty) posing for photos in Vought Tower, equilibrium seemingly restored after the traumatic events of season 2. But we know that things are very different. Starlight and Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) finally have some leverage over the unstable Homelander, who lost his Nazi girlfriend after his own son blasted her with laser eye beams.
Homelander was already teetering of the edge of sanity, and it looks like things are only getting worse. And considering he’s the single most powerful person on the planet, that could be a problem…
I say again: oh no.
The Boys season 3 release date
The other big takeaway from the trailer is that we know when the third season will premiere! We’ll be watching The Boys season 3 on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, June 3, 2022.
In a world packed with superhero shows and movies, The Boys has managed to stand out by embracing violence, sex, pitch-black humor, and a pretty pessimistic take on the world. We are miles from the DC Extended Universe here, and lightyears from the MCU. In The Boys, superheroes are, at best, exhausted idealists who must constantly fight against a society that tries to exploit and commodify them. And at worst, they’re Homelander. Most of them skew worse.
The Boys is a superhero show for people who don’t like superhero shows, a satire of not just our current superhero obsession but society in general. It’s pretty good, and I’m excited to see what season 3 has in store.
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