The Boys are back, again. Of course, the return of the series is starting to become less and less sensational, with spin-offs already released and new ones arriving, but despite all the group of Billy Butcher Breast Milk has waited long enough, and is ready to return. So here we got to see the first 6 episodes of The Boys Season 4and today we will tell you about it without spoilers in this review.
This review is SPOILER-FREE, but you may find spoilers for the third season of The Boys.
Losing team
The series restarts very close to the end of the previous one: everything is still the same, a concept that we will often find again in this fourth season, and the Boys are busy with their missions, when they are interested. So here we find ourselves Billy and his 6 months of life, Kimiko And Frenchie full of problems, perhaps even more than before, Hughie And Annie than trying to figure out what to do and Breast milk with his new role.
On the other hand we have Patriot who is at the helm of the Seven that seven are no longer, more and more specks of heroes who are more human in terms of mistakes than the non-supers are. And obviously, a decidedly high political tension which shows, on both sides, a series of dynamics to be discovered.
Starlight descending among the Starlighters
Because after the events of The Boys 3, where Patriot killed a person who had thrown a bottle of water at his son, now more than ever the people are divided between Starlighterspeople who push to make Patriot pay for his crime, and the followers of the latterinstead very convinced that freedom means doing as you want.
All this, obviously, is structured in a status quo where Patriot increasingly thinks that human beings are toys for his own entertainment, a lesson that he is trying to pass on to Ryan, ready (or almost) to take on his role as a young hero.
Ring around the rosie
If we took the various plots of the seasons of The Boys and proposed them on the same level, there is a dynamic that was almost not present in the first seasonin the second it began to be glimpsed, in the third it was shown too much and now in the fourth it seems to become its master: redundancy.
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If there’s one thing that the first episodes had made clear, it was that anything could happen: on the one hand, very normal humans – a different choice from that of the comic from which the series is based – could use politics and fame to counter these super-powered people, on the other the super, capable of pulverising a person just by running.
Two new characters
Over time, however, this dynamic has become stale, and the fourth season is proof of this. Much remains as it is, the status quo doesn’t change much and in the 6 episodes that we have seen, in the end the story is more focused on the evolution of the characters – not even that striking – and not on the progression of what is happening.
Even the inclusion of new heroes, with interesting powers, becomes secondary to the rest. And if all this wasn’t enough, some super and not so great ones that we’ve seen since the first season they have now become specks of themselveswith evolutions that have become all too obvious, boring or superficial.
Basically we are inside a giant powder keg, where a single spark could make the whole world explode, yet thousands of flames continuously fall and start nothing.
An armor made of excuses
It seems as if the entire Boys group was therefore covered by an armor made up of plots to carry forward, which perhaps we would have spared ourselves on some characters, and which on others perhaps could have a positive impact in terms of evolution, an evolution which in the fourth season, however, we expected to be already complete.
Another of the new characters, Kessler
A subdued season, which does not destroy everything good that has been done before: we are talking about a series that has really cleared many visual and non-visual taboos, but on the other hand dismemberments, sex, penises in plain sight and a series of killings are not enough to make The Boys so.
We will see how the last two episodes will put a point to this season, but barring miracles we find ourselves faced with a season without infamy and without praise, which perhaps we could have seen condensed into just one extra episode of the fifth, reminding us (and reminding Kripke) that the times of serials have changed, and there is no need to fill a series with fillers to keep it going.
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