that's one hell of a sticky ending after the penultimate episode of the
boy's second season ended with that courtroom splatter fest
we didn't think this show could get more explosive
okay this is insane of course that'll teach us for underestimating the sick
mind of shore owner eric kripke karl urban's words
not ours still we doubt anyone could have predicted quite how explosive that
final episode would turn out to be after eight increasingly messed up
installments everything came to a head when stormfront threatened to kill
butcher's ex-wife right in front of her son
the nazi hero then tried to choke the life out of his mother
so ryan naturally used his heat vision to save her and burn stormfront to a
crisp we guess homelander was holding back a
bit when he lasered her chest earlier on then in that fiery sex scene
unfortunately while trying to save his mother ryan accidentally caused her
death at that awkward moment homelander then
swoops in fresh from another massacre just as he confronts butcher and tries
to take his son away queen meave arrives threatening to out
homelander is the monster he truly is you're gonna let them go
and if i don't
let them go you're gonna stop
hunting starlight you're gonna leave me and elena
alone thanks to video proof of that horrendous airplane scene from season
one meve's plan works homelander backs down
choosing his reputation over his son it's a happy ending of sorts even for
homelander but not in the way you might expect
after butcher takes ryan away to safety we then cut to vaught's number one hero
standing on top of a building at night at first
the camera stays close to homelanders face as he repeats the line
i can do whatever the [ __ ] i want his hair is disheveled and he keeps making a
strange jerking motion with his body is he yes the camera then cuts behind
homelander to reveal that he's actually jerking off over the city he's sworn to
protect anthony starr's bear tush is out in the
open lit up by the moon in case you're keen to try and get
another glimpse of more love sausage on the show
skip ahead to the one hour two minute mark and squint best you can
you're welcome the show cuts away to its climax before homelanders climax
and that's the last we see of him this season pretty messed up right
while we'd argue that the boys has featured more disturbing scenes in the
past it turns out that amazon was
particularly grossed out by the sticky ending
during a reddit ama last year eric kripke revealed that there was just one
scene in the first season that amazon forced him to cut
homelander after being dressed down by stillwell in episode two
was standing on one of the chrysler building eagles he pulled his pants down
and started jerking off mumbling i can do whatever i want over
and over again until he climaxed all over new york city
sound familiar aside from the context everything about this moment is
identical to the scene which finally appeared at the end of season two
cripty reveals that they actually shot the scene for season one
and anthony was the best in that scene at the time amazon seemed to think it
wasn't necessary to include it though clearly
they must have changed their minds at some point between filming seasons one
and two still the question remains did anthony
moon the city twice shooting two versions of this climatic
scene or did kripke simply use the unreleased footage from season one
that's not clear at the moment we're writing this but either way
we're glad amazon finally relented and no
not just for the reasons you think during that aforementioned ama
kripke noted that the controversial scene reveals something about
homelanders psyche and that's perhaps even more true now that this moment has
been shifted to the end of season two instead of season one homelander likes
to portray himself as a patriotic hero proud of his country but the truth is
that he's only proud of himself and all of his self-worth is wrapped up
in how others perceive him although stillwell's death in season one
shook him to some degree it's the way queen meve confronted him
at the end of season two that really started to unravel his mind
so in response to this why does homelander feel the need
to spread his unique brand of truth justice and the american spray
lies out
who cry he's obsessed with women either degrading them as inferior or
treating them like sexualized versions of the sanctified mother figures he
never had growing up any kind of defeat would crush
homelanders self-worth but losing to a woman emasculated him
completely robbing him of his self-perceived worth as a man
while the repercussions of this won't play out in full until season three
we're still left with some major questions did anyone see homelander tend
to his flagpole in public did any unfortunate passer by mistake
his load for bird poop and is this some weird setup for the
teenage spin-off whatever happens we have faith that shore owner eric
cripty will use that sick mind of his to come up with something even more
disturbing and insightful when the boys return in
well who knows when good ones see you soon
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