initiating moisture
welcome to the moist meter today we're
taking a look at the boys season three
and it's another banger this show
doesn't miss every season is getting
better like it's a show that started out
amazing and has only gotten better so
right away season three kicks off with
one of the wildest episodes in
television history this is a minor
spoiler i suppose but it's all within
the first 10 minutes of episode 1 so
they're hunting down
a bad soup with the power to shrink and
he uses that power for sounding if you
don't know what sounding is god bless
your soul i suppose it's putting things
into your dick hole so he shrinks
himself down to a very small level and
then crawls inside of a guy's penis and
gives him a urethra massage but he had
just snorted coke beforehand and he
sneezes and then expands back to normal
size and splits him in half instantly
killing him sending blood and guts
flying all over the place
[ __ ] was so wacky i would have never
expected i'd watch a show
where someone's exploring a wiener
as if it's like a cave in indiana jones
or something
it was
so
unhinged but it works really well in the
show like it was fun to watch like the
entire season went really hard a lot
happened and i think every episode was
great the only one that was a bit
underwhelming was unfortunately the
finale which i just watched i know a lot
of people are pretty disappointed with
it and i'll also admit i was a little
let down it's not bad by any means but
every episode this entire season kept
ramping up and setting up huge stakes
and huge things coming and then the
finale kind of under delivers on a lot
of it but it puts a lot of pieces in
place for next season that i think is
going to be outstanding so i really like
where it leaves off though
like the final fights as well as some of
the the later moments just didn't have
that same um you would expect and there
wasn't even a single time where they
went back inside of a [ __ ] which was a
little upsetting like you know they
really struck gold in episode one now
let's break it down a little bit i'm
again going to avoid as many spoilers as
possible this season introduces a new
villain so it's not just homelander now
they bring soldier boy back into the
fold who was basically the original
homelander he was the face of vaught and
just like the most popular and strongest
superhero in the world and everyone
thought he was dead however he's not he
was being captured he was captured and
tortured by the russians and the boys
inadvertently release him again so he
becomes the main big bad and it's it's
really good soulja boy is a super
interesting character he's not like as
good of a villain as homelander by any
means because anthony starr is one of
the most talented actors i've ever seen
anthony starr as homelander is probably
the best villain i've ever watched on
screen and i don't say that lightly but
i now cannot even look at anthony star
without seeing homelander i watched a
[ __ ] interview with him in the cast
one time and i just saw homelander i
thought at any moment he'd turn around
and take someone's eyes out of their
skull or something if he didn't like one
of their jokes like he has truly
become homelander to me which has never
really happened for any other character
so massive props and he does a great job
this season as well of course and this
season homelanders more than just like
this over-the-top evil villain they
actually show a lot of human sides here
even more so than previous seasons they
really
like do a lot of like heavy lifting to
make you almost feel for him and
question whether or not like his real
motive because before all this you'd be
like yeah he's pretending to be nice or
pretending to be on someone's side but
he's actually going to do something evil
whereas here it's like well no he might
actually care about ryan or he might
actually value black noir as a teammate
and a friend you know it's just so good
but anyway back to soldier boy he's
where you're going to spend a lot of the
time
like seeing him do [ __ ] and learning
about him he's got a very interesting
past and his main objective is of course
to get revenge for being captured so
he's wreaking havoc and it just becomes
another massive problem for the crew to
try and navigate the writing in the show
i think is just superb i think it's so
good they do a great job of making you
care about most of the characters as
well as just setting up a really
interesting story with a lot of moving
parts to it and it always does try and
like turn a mirror to like the real
world so it'll criticize a lot of things
that happen in like actual society and i
hate using that word the jokers really
ruin that word but like there's a lot of
moments throughout the boys where it's
poking fun at things in the real world
and whether or not you appreciate that
or not that's entirely up to you but i
always find it at least interesting that
they subtly jab at like all sides of
things i think they do a decent job of
not being super on the nose while also
still making it pretty comical but where
i think they absolutely excel is in the
characters i think butcher is such a
[ __ ] great character where sometimes
you're pumping your fist like yeah go
butcher rip his [ __ ] tits off and
shove him in his [ __ ] let's go
butcher that's so cool
and then the other minute you're like
damn [ __ ] you butcher this is all your
fault you're such a piece of [ __ ] like
they just they have such a great line
with butcher where he's
awesome sometimes you know he's doing
the right thing and then other times
he's really crossed the line and you as
a viewer like damn that's too far and a
lot of things that happen afterwards are
completely because you're an [ __ ] you
caused a lot of bad stuff because you're
an [ __ ] like even though your
intentions are good overall
you went too far and you made things
worse i i love what they do with butcher
and i really loved what they did with
butcher and huey this season because
they gave them access to powers not a
spoiler it's in the promo material they
gave them access to super powers and i
think that works so well here now it
just gives this entire crew more options
for handling the problems so you have
people that don't have powers in the
crew that are coming up with schemes and
plans that
are more in the shadows and more like
deeper i suppose like they have to be
careful about their moves whereas with
butcher and huey now that they have
access to powers their plans more become
let's just go beat the [ __ ] out of these
superheroes get the answers we need and
just start ripping scalps off and i
actually think that's super cool and it
feels earned because we've spent so much
time with these characters constantly
having the odds against them not being
able to actually fight on even footing
with the people they try and hunt down
or the people they try and save now they
do have access to powers and it lets
them directly get involved in these
fights and just really in the mega mix
of things here and i like that a lot i
really did i really appreciated that and
it didn't like overstay its welcome
where it just became like superheroes
fighting each other they still had to
outsmart outmaneuver and come up with
good plans but i like that they now have
the ability to directly confront their
most vicious villains you know like they
actually fight homelander and it they
don't just get like insta gibbed like
it's team fortress 2 they actually can
put up a fight now because they have
access to the powers and i thought that
just felt great i think that was just
such a nice payoff to see them actually
get to that point to be able to fight
another standout character this season
was maeve maeve had so much to do this
season and did a lot of cool [ __ ] maeve
was integral to this season's plot like
without her a lot of things just don't
happen and i thought she was great just
really shine this entire season
starlight as well but on starlight side
of things it was mainly her use of
social media which
isn't super cool but when she was like
not just instagram living information
and like actually contributing to fights
and [ __ ] she was great like and the
relationship between starlight and huey
of course again gets like really
strained because of difference and
uh
without getting into spoilers just like
a difference of opinion on how to handle
handle homelander and soldier boy
the relationship of course is well
written like i actually care about their
relationship i feel sad when they're not
happy together as goofy as that is to
say i don't know i just really like
everything about the boys i love the way
that they've crafted the narrative i
love the characters they even do a lot
with a train this season uh showing like
the family side of things as well as him
wanting to do good but just not being
able to he's so disconnected from like
the reality of things he can't quite
figure out how to do things properly so
every time he tries to help he makes
everything much worse and it's sad that
like the deep is just again a goofy
comic relief character they don't do
much to make you like the deep all he
does this season is [ __ ] octopus [ __ ] a
lot like he just gets multiple blow jobs
from octopi
that's mainly his contribution like he's
just a dumb character he's supposed to
be laughed at and he does that
successfully now there are a couple
things i do want to bring up that aren't
like amazing with the show i think that
they're using compound v and v
alternatives
really like
excessively it seems like they're
selling compound v at gas stations at
this point anytime they needed compound
v it was just like a brisk walk down the
street away to go grab it it was never a
challenge like there was never a moment
in this entire season where they're like
damn we need more v if only we could go
get it it's always like we need more v
i'll just go get it like it was never a
big obstacle in the beginning they set
it up like it was really hard to get
like this is coveted sacred serum that
you know there's not much of it in the
world and it's super guarded hard to
come by whereas here it's like yeah i've
got like 15 000 pounds worth just in my
garage
it just i don't know i felt like that
was a little excessive how often they
could rely on it and they they used a v
a lot here and they had to keep going to
vot labs to get the v
and it was really easy it seems like all
you have to do to get compound v is just
knock on the door and ask for it so i
thought that was a little lazy though i
understand why they didn't want to spend
too much time focusing on how they
acquire it because that's not super
interesting but you set it up as this
crazy compound that's really hard and
really secretive like you can't just
make it super plentiful all of a sudden
and not to bring up the first episode
too many times but that shrinking guy i
actually do think could have been the
strongest character in the show this
goes into like the ant-man and the
thanos's butthole thing unironically
after seeing it in this episode i
genuinely think that would probably kill
homelander and pretty much any superhero
in the show if the shrinking guy just
went inside their [ __ ] or butt and then
just fully expanded again
i i can't imagine i don't see how the
character survives that like even if
they're so powerful like if he goes
inside homelanders ass and tries to like
go back to normal size to blow him up
even if homelander's body is so strong
it like kills him inside of him he's
just gonna like
internally drown from all the blood and
guts from the shrinking man exploding
inside of him like i just don't see how
any character survives that so i
actually think that could be the
strongest character in the entire boys
franchise just wanted to bring that up
but anyway uh plugging the boys season
three into the voice meter i'm giving it
a nice 90
i would have given it a 95 but like i
said i do think the finale is a little
underwhelming they set everything up to
be absolutely huge to finish it off and
it just really wasn't i without getting
into spoilers i can't really explain
where things start to get a little messy
in the finale but
they just make it a little underwhelming
i love where it ends up i love the the
final conclusion
where everyone is and everything that's
happening to them i think is fantastic
but
like everything getting there is kind of
lackluster which is a real shame because
i really thought they were gonna send us
into season four with like this [ __ ]
wild bang
and it just didn't quite pull it off it
was just a little weak but other than
that it's another outstanding season the
boys is still absolutely crushing it and
i can't wait for season four that's
about it see ya