‘The Boys’ – ‘The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies’ – Review
When you thought it couldn’t get more shocking, The Boys arrive in Season Three, Episode Five, ‘The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies’ and plenty of buried secrets and brutal truths come to the surface in this episode. And for one Supe, the infamous Soldier Boy, a reckoning is coming.
Having made his escape from Russia, Solider Boy (Jensen Ackles) sets out to get answers, and everyone had better watch out. Then there’s ‘The Boys’ who are facing their own internal struggles with Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) getting honest with Annie January/Starlight (Erin Moriarty) about just what he’s been up too. While Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) has his own twisted plan, and his sight is set on a brand new weapon that might just turn the tide against mortal enemy Homelander (Antony Starr).
Week by week on Season Three of The Boys the narrative keeps getting crazier, and a real spanner has been thrown into the works thanks to the arrival of Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles). Formally presumed dead, Solider Boy has in fact been kept as a prisoner and experiment subject by the Russians in their hopes to duplicate his powers. And now that he’s free, he’s got a score to settle with those who put him there. And he’s very pissed off! Ackles makes for a real feral beast of a character as he explores an entirely new world, and he’s completely out of his element, and this makes him even more dangerous than audiences could have ever imagined.
Then there’s ‘The Boys’, and Billy’s up to his old tricks. Ready to use anyone for his own ends, Billy pulls in the assistance of a one-time ally who isn’t his biggest fan, and he also gets to relieve some much needed stress thanks to the help of Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott). ‘The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies’ is a set-up kind of episode, this is ‘The Boys’ doing the grunt work for what is to come, but there’s some great insights, quriks and cameos in this episode, and I’m certain that they’re going to have a massive impact as we move forward in Season Three.
There’s also a great level of carnage in ‘The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies’ and while I don’t want to reveal any kind of spoilers so that audiences can saviour the destruction that follows, things certainly get explosive. ‘The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies’ is also an important episode as we come to see the inner workings of our characters at play. Their emotions and desires are placed in front of audiences, and much of the importance of this episode hinges on the dramatic weight that is present in this episode. Plus, there’s some quality comedy for good measure as well.
We’re moving at pace with The Boys, and it’s about to get gnarly as we move into the crux of this season and the eve of the notorious ‘Herogasm’ event! You thought it was wild already? Just wait for what comes next!!!
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