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The second half of the second season of Amazons hitThe Boysstarts with the worst episode in the shows history.
This episode runs just over 60 minutes, and what happens?
Homelander and Stormfront become a power couple, and Billy basically reunites with his boys.
Both things were inevitable.
We Gotta Go Now is another episode about intense image management.
A-Train tries to fight his imminent expulsion from the group, which is also being captured in the movie.
Its a lot for one show, yet none of it really feels like its going anywhere.
In the episodes most shocking beat, his eyes turn red, and he lasers everyone in the plaza.
Imagine if that werent just a fantasy.
Imagine if Homelanderdidbecome a supervillain.
MaybeThe Boysis headed there this season, but Homelander isnt happy without adoration has been cooking for too long.
Lets take it off the burner and do something with it.
At least the end of the episode seems to push his arc forward a bit.
That cant end well.
And what about Billy and the boys?
Like the rally scene, most of his arc this episode feels like a fake out.
Billy isnt going to Argentina!
The guys find Billy at his aunts house, where he went to get his awesome stuffed pig-humping dog.
Again, imagine if something shocking had happened here.
What if Billy had killed Black Noir?
What if Black Noir had killed Mothers Milk?
This show needs to get more dangerous.
Edgar tells Black Noir to let them all live if the proof is destroyed.
It probably wont be.
But it seems to get Billy and the gang back together to a certain degree.
Surviving an attack by a sociopathic superhero will do that to you.
Again, how did Black Noir get in a populist group like the Seven?
Maybe theres just too much going on this season?
Lets hope the writers remember that for the end run.
Of course he would be.
Does this episode have more incidences of the C-word than any other show?
I think maybe, given how much Billy tosses it around in his showdown with Black Noir.
This episode in general seems to tackle actual superhero pop culture more directly than any other.
What do you think of the choice?
Not so this year.
Well see if they go back to the old way in season three.
My guess is they will.
