"Glorious Five Year Plan" ruptures relationships between Butcher's roster that M.M. Both The Seven and The Boys are in shambles under Homelander and Butcher. Of course, The Boys would still be fine thanks to no shortage of dangerous drama within all factions. Kripke's packing the powder keg even tighter, which is already bursting at the bolts. I hope the proceeding investigation instigated by Homelander doesn't downgrade Edgar's appearances because Esposito's one of the show's mightiest weapons. Edgar is still the colder son-of-a-gun in the room for all of Homelander's physical threats and American nightmarishness. Homelander and Edgar exchange psychological jabs in Vought Tower's boardroom, the smoothest battle of icy wits we've seen in an already outstanding rivalry between both Vought pillars. "Glorious Five Year Plan" drops a bombshell, and I don't think we're ready for the ramifications.īut can we also pause to recognize Giancarlo Esposito acting against Starr's dominant Homelander role? Few working performers could challenge the Emmy-worthy quality Starr brings week after week. Homelander's hostile takeover of Vought International by his manipulation of Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) is, in Butcher's own words, "f*cking diabolical." No one's selling a devil-without-a-care attitude like Starr right now, whether that's Homelander emasculating Hughie by using Starlight as a publicity relationship or Homelander becoming The Seven's de facto dictator. Starr's playing an untouchable deity with an egomaniacal smile that'd make Freddy Krueger nervous, and the dynamic shifts even more magnificently because Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) finally gets burned. Homelander (Antony Starr), meanwhile, continues his parade of depravity as one of modern television's greatest and most charismatic villains. The Boys asserts itself as far more than a display of barbaric acts of random violence carried out by the world's most sadistic anti-heroes, which adds an element of engagement to Season 3 that wasn't as prominent thus far. Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Hughie, and Kimiko are all noticeably changed by the sight of a dead body - a different pulpy mess for each.
The difference here, and what The Boys is doing better by the episode, is that it emphasizes the consequences of violent attacks and the emotional responses to the corpses that pile sky high. "Glorious Five Year Plan" doesn't fight any of those claims as superpowered hamsters maul Russian security guards - there's your Jamie cameo, fans - and piggish underworld bosses are impaled by Black Noir's (Nathan Mitchell) themed pleasure plaything.
The biggest complaint so far about The Boys by those still on the outskirts of this “all violence, no remorse” adaptation is its focus on bleaker than bleak storytelling nastiness. Kripke's writing team is doing a splendid job finding more human reactions to explore versus the comic's all-in mentality on cartoonish "supe" malevolence.
(Laz Alonso) trying to hold Butcher's Boys together despite his ruthless leader's best (or, I guess worst) efforts. Hughie (Jack Quaid) tees up a massive moral conflict as he tastes limitless power for once in his life. Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) experiences a harrowing realization as Butcher unleashes her for an assassination job like some caged animal. Whatever hesitations you might have about Butcher wading right back into the same hardass waters for more vengeance-fueled brawls, the characters around him elevate ongoing subplots. Although, I'd argue there are more significant storytelling victories in "Glorious Five Year Plan" amidst all the sex toy carnage and bloody dismemberment.
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