“I look again at my life…and all I see…are the messes I made.”
And boy, did we love these messes. These phrases, uttered by chief of the eponymous ragtag group of vigilantes, Billy Butcher (Karl City), start the complete trailer for the upcoming season 4 of Prime Video’s smash superhero satire “The Boys”. What follows is a rousing montage of groups getting again collectively, new supes becoming a member of the fray, new monsters revealing themselves, chickens flying out of chests, and bloody sheep being torn aside mid-air all juxtaposed towards inspirational speeches and quotes from Butcher, Homelander, and the remainder of the gang of fucked-up of us making an attempt to save lots of humanity in their very own methods.
Approaching the heels of the sequence’ breakout spin-off “Gen V”, this newest season of “The Boys” appears to be like to be incorporating characters outdated and new. One determine who hasn’t proven up in both sequence although is the character performed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan. Although it’s nonetheless unclear what his position could also be, within the trailer, he’s seen talking to Butcher saying, “We want somebody such as you, Billy. Earlier than the supes begin rounding us up and dumping us off in camps.”
This line alone has echoes of nationwide and worldwide conflicts previous and current, so it will likely be attention-grabbing to see how Morgan’s character matches into the universe and speaks to present anxieties held by viewers. “The Boys” has all the time been in a position to satirize America’s worldview with a fairly scathing chew. The latest instance got here in final season’s skewering of “bro tradition”, which ended with Homelander murdering a heckler in entrance of a big crowd, a lot to their delight. In watching this, it was onerous not to consider the notorious Trump quote from 2016, “”I may stand in the course of Fifth Avenue and shoot any individual, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
“This nation is corrupt past restore…so we gotta put it aside,” says a confident Homelander at one level within the trailer, including, “It’s not gonna be simple, we’ll must do some horrible issues…for the better good.”
With this line, the sense that “The Boys” will be the most socially related tv sequence on the market at the moment turns into increasingly more obvious. The trailer additionally sees Homelander digging into his fatherly obligations, along with his son Ryan beginning to showcase the violent aspect of his personal skills and Butcher seemingly wishing he may change him. Will he be capable of? Discover out on June 13, when the complete season 4 drops on Prime Video, however for now, benefit from the trailer beneath.