“The boys”, the most successful series on Amazon Prime, showed that the superhero genre was losing its novelty. A setback was necessary and nothing better than a harsh dose of reality to remedy it, but no one believed the show would go this far in its third season. “They are not prepared”, warned the showrunner Erick Kripke on his social networks and now we understand the reason.
His politically incorrect court, level of violence and corrosive sense of humor were already characteristics of the house, but his last episode, herogasm, has reached extravagance, as it showed, without hesitation, the largest orgy of superheroes in history. If in the comics it had created controversy, this event even threatened the cancellation of the show on the small screen.
There is no doubt that this is the most controversial chapter of the series, the same one that has generated a wide debate among viewers about the limits of censorship and the obscene. Despite this, the plot manages so that the characters, worldly problems and motivations are the main course for which we have followed the show since its first season. Themes like the dark side of fame are still around, now joined by other more interesting contemporaries like toxic masculinity, courtesy of Soldier Boy.
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What did we see in the Herogasm episode?
When Deep goes to the TNT twins’ house he didn’t expect to find the massive orgy of superheroes. This event occurs once a year and was created in 1952 for powerful beings to unleash their passions, perversions and more unexpected sexual fantasies. Dozens of women and men with superpowers starred in racy scenes that were as imaginative as they were explicit.
This was his “wild” shooting…
“It was five days in a row, more than 12 hours a day, surrounded by nudity. And it was very wild. I have never been in a room with so many dildos, sex toys, so much nudity and so much simultaneous sex, happening in so many ways,” Erin Moriarty revealed to Slashfilm. “We saw Nelson Cragg, the director of the chapter, working and suddenly he became a porn director,” she said with a laugh.
“I remember hearing a couple of the team members, they were outside talking like ‘I’ve seen things…’ and it sounded like they came from the war. I haven’t seen anything and I don’t know much about it, but what was said about it was legend… What was said was so crazy that I’m afraid they had to shoot some things that provoked them, ”said Chace Crawford about it. .
“I wasn’t on set thank God, which is why I can still sleep at night without being in the fetal position,” the creator commented on the shoot. “When I hear some of the stories I’m glad I wasn’t there, because I think it would have marked me, that there isn’t enough therapy in the world to recover from that episode,” said Anthony Starr.
To the delight of the fans, the anecdotes did come from Jensen Ackles. He assures that the cast was confusing the bottles of lubricant with the bottles of gel to protect themselves from COVID-19: “You knew someone was wrong, something that happened every 10 minutes, when someone basically screamed.”
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Actors worried about their career after Herogasm
In an interview for Entertainment Weekly, Jensen Ackles and Chace Crawford discussed the content of the third season episodes. Although they did not give many details of the plot, Ackles said that Crawford was afraid.
I remember reading those things [en el guion] and you sent me a text message. I have to go find him, but I think it was something like ‘I don’t know how I’ll be able to work after this,’” she recalled. Now that we have seen the result, we can safely say that it is unprecedented by the standards of the superhero genre, but will it end the career of the actors in the industry? Only time will tell.
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