‘The Boys’ Season 4 Episode 6 Review - It’s Hilarious

I had a blast watching The Boys Season 4, Episode 6. It felt as if I was watching a hilarious R-rated sitcom made by demented minds. Earlier episodes of this season provided comic violence to a lazy substance. Episode 6 doesn't exactly offer any fresh political perspective, but the comedy here is so good, so nutty that you blissfully ignore everything else. It's insane how the creators still manage to entertain us with jokes that are amusingly juvenile and brutal. Hell, they gave us something as weird as the sight of Hugh Sr phasing through a patient and killing him! That moment and other hospital deaths eventually gave rise to sad, solid emotions. The message might as well have been that the violence looks funny, but they don't heal the emotional wounds of the characters. Something similar can be observed here when, after an absurd, long, and light-hearted BDSM session, a character starts crying and confesses he misses his dad.

That character is Hughie, and he finds himself in that BDSM session along with Tek Knight, Ashley, and Laddio (his red costume reminded me of the Flash) because he disguises himself as Webweaver. Who is Webweaver? He is a superhero who has a web hole near his rear. I have a lot of questions, especially if he swings around the city like Spider-Man. Tek Knight has Sherlock Holmes-type powers, but his detective work seems unsophisticated. By noticing Hughie's trembling hands, he figures out he is nervous. You don't need to have Sherlock Holmes-level skills for such a deduction. This only exposes The Boys' problem. It introduces us to superheroes possessing advanced talents and then reduces them to dumb figures. Take Sage, for instance.

In one of my reviews, I mentioned how this smartest person on the planet can only be as smart as the writers. And their intelligence can be witnessed through the things they do with Sage. She merely comes across as a typical cunning villain. Her actions lack the complexity of the world's most intelligent person. In this episode, however, the writers tackle this issue by lowering Sage's intelligence - she becomes dull-witted. This leads to a parody of that head nod moment that is usually used to indicate goodwill, support, or satisfaction between two characters.

In fact, the non-gory humor in Episode 6 stays with you longer. I am talking about that scene where Kimiko uses books to communicate with A-Train and the one where Hughie's mother, after finding out the reason behind Kimiko's distress, asks her son what kind of friends he has. I chuckled when Tek Knight was tortured with threats like his money would be sent to Black Lives Matter. And when Victoria Neuman's head "explodes" after listening to a man talking about abortion, the series says, "Look, this is how women feel when someone mansplains something to them." Episode 6 ends with a Fight Club-style twist that's enjoyable in its own way. With a sense of humor like the one displayed by The Boys, it becomes easier to sit through uninteresting episodes/portions.

Final Score- [8/10]