‘The Boys’ is not predicting the longer term. It is simply mirroring the current second in American politics.

Some actually disgusting issues occur onscreen throughout The Boys, Prime Video’s superhero satire that’s now airing its fourth season.

One scene haunts Chace Crawford particularly. He performs the Deep, an Aquaman parody, who has an intimate interplay with an octopus in Season 3 that he says is ceaselessly portrayed by followers at conventions.

“That scene was just about [the worst],” he advised Yahoo Leisure. “I had a freak-out like 24 hours earlier than filming, the place I needed to name [showrunner Eric Kripke] and be like, ‘Yo, what are we doing right here?’”

Kripke talked him down from the proverbial ledge, and since then, he hasn’t needed to movie something as personally unsettling.

“Clearly, Eric was proper. We’d already accomplished so many ridiculous issues, I used to be simply being egocentric and fearful about myself,” Crawford added. “I used to be simply occupied with my mother and father.”

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Nathan Mitchell, left, and Chace Crawford in Season 4 of The Boys. (Jasper Savage/Amazon /Courtesy of the Everett Assortment)

However that was final season — the horrors viewers may behold in Season 4 are nonetheless within the means of unfolding, although there’s rumored to be one thing surprising in each episode. Although the TV present graded for mature audiences is notoriously gory and raunchy, a lot of its horrors are existential.

On the planet of The Boys, superheroes are celebrities who maintain political energy along with their godlike skills. A lot of them abuse their skills, however none extra so than Homelander, an evil Superman parody performed by Antony Starr.

A GIF of Homelander went viral after Season 3. Starr jokingly advised Yahoo Leisure that it was disappointing as a result of he “doesn’t receives a commission for any memes.” It got here from a scene during which he kills somebody and reacts in horror, then slowly begins to smile and snort as he realizes the individuals round him are applauding his actions. He rejoices in actually getting away with homicide.

“To be sincere, I used to be annoyed that day as a result of I didn’t get as many takes as I needed … perhaps only one or two,” he mentioned. “My takeaway is that, collectively, all the things that everybody is doing to supply this present is resonating in popular culture.”

Starr mentioned the beauty of taking part in such a depraved villain is that there aren’t any constraints on what he can do as an actor.

“We’re not certain to something … on set, it’s simply playtime,” he mentioned.

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Antony Starr and Cameron Crovetti in Season 4 of The Boys.

There are a slew of recent characters on The Boys in its newest season, together with a skeptical authorities operative performed by Jeffrey Dean Morgan and new superhero Sister Sage, performed by Susan Heyward.

Heyward advised Yahoo Leisure that her character is “the neatest individual on the earth,” however that “places her in a spot the place she’s not at all times enthusiastic about life or individuals as a result of she will be able to see all the things coming.”

“There’s no spice to her life, so she’s on the lookout for that,” Heyward mentioned.

The Boys has a large online fan community, particularly on Reddit. A standard concern from followers is that Homelander is so highly effective, it doesn’t seem to be anybody will be capable to defeat him — however some theorize that Sister Sage could possibly be an actual risk.

“The present has accomplished a fantastic job of placing Homelander at an untouchable degree of energy, however due to that, he’s unstable,” Heyward mentioned. “Somebody conscious of attainable threats … may really really feel protected round him.”

One other new superhero is Firecracker, whose superpower seems to be the underwhelming potential to generate sparks by snapping her fingers. The actress who portrays her, Valorie Curry, advised Yahoo Leisure that Firecracker’s true energy is “intuiting what individuals want.”

“She will be able to rile up an viewers, however she will be able to additionally do it in an intimate, one-on-one setting,” Curry mentioned. “It’s uncanny. She’s very simply underestimated, and normally, it’s to individuals’s peril.”

Curry added that the character feels very “of-the-moment” and “continues to be related lengthy after [they] completed capturing.”

“I feel individuals will watch the present and see mirrored in it a lot of what’s taking place proper now and never understand that the present was written nearly two years in the past,” she mentioned. “A few of it’s prescient, a few of it’s proper on the heart beat, and you may’t miss it with Firecracker.”

Although lots of the characters in The Boys have comic-book parallels, others look like parodies of political figures. Kripke has confirmed that Firecracker parodies Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and Homelander is a Donald Trump analogue, to call a number of.

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Susan Heyward, left, and Valorie Curry as Sister Sage and Firecracker in The Boys. (Jasper Savage/Amazon/Courtesy of the Everett Assortment)

When the third season of The Boys aired in 2022, its subreddit descended into chaos. The discussion board’s guidelines banned the dialogue of politics, however the present’s storylines grew to become more and more political.

“It most likely isn’t attainable to speak about The Boys with out speaking about politics, and that’s very intentional,” Kripke advised Yahoo Leisure. “The present has at all times been about … a celeb that desires to be an authoritarian dictator, and that simply occurs to be the world we’re dwelling in.”

Claudia Doumit performs Victoria Neuman, a strong politician who initially of Season 4 is operating for vp. Previously, she confirmed that her character was based mostly on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Doumit is aware of it’s no coincidence that the present has an election storyline throughout a real-life election yr.

“It’s a fairly bleak political panorama proper now, and I feel the present does an excellent job of mirroring what’s on the market on the earth,” Doumit advised Yahoo Leisure. “Generally it very a lot seems like [my character] predicted the longer term.”

“Some issues I say, like speeches or a monologue, come out of my mouth and I feel, ‘That is batshit. That is absurd’. However we hear loopy issues like that on daily basis,” she mentioned.

Kripke advised Yahoo Leisure that The Boys didn’t got down to see the longer term. “Look, I didn’t predict it, I simply occur to be operating the present that’s the most concerning the present second,” he mentioned.

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Showrunner Eric Kripke on the Gotham TV Awards, June 2024. (John Nacion/Selection through Getty Photos)

Kripke was additionally showrunner for Supernatural, a CW fantasy collection that ran for 15 years. Like The Boys, it had a devoted fan base, for which he’s grateful.

“The followers of my reveals are typically actually clever and passionate, and I’m lucky that they actually appear to care,” he mentioned. “If I knew why or the right way to bottle that, I might. … It makes me wish to preserve upping my sport each time I’m at bat.”

When Kripke spoke with Yahoo Leisure in Could, he mentioned his writers had been discussing how The Boys would finish.

“I’ve realized to by no means say when my present ought to finish, as a result of for those who return into recorded historical past, actually nobody else has been extra improper than me about predicting how lengthy their present would go,” he mentioned, referencing how Supernatural was supposed to finish after its fifth season, however continued on for 10 extra. “Actually nobody has been extra improper than me. I’ve acquired the Guinness [World] File. Everybody will know in hindsight, however I’m conserving it to myself.

Kripke introduced in June that the fifth season of The Boys will probably be its final. We’ll see if he’s proper this time round.

The primary three episodes of The Boys are streaming on Prime Video.



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