The best superhero series of the moment, The Boysreturns next Thursday, June 13 to Amazon Prime Video with its fourth seasonbut since a couple of years have passed since the premiere of the third seasonit may be a good time to review everything that has happened so far.
The Boys places us in a fictional world in which people with superpowers are recognized as superheroes – also called Supers– by the public, although they don’t actually use their special abilities for good but rather selfishly while working for the powerful corporation Vought International.
One of its main superhero groups is known as the sevenled by the violent Patriot (Anthony Starr). On the other hand, it arises The Boysa vigilante group led by Billy Carnicero (Karl Urban) who fights to stop corrupt superheroes, taking down the company Vought International and exposing those responsible.
Summary of The Boys season 1 and 2
In the first season of The Boys, Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) joins the vigilante team to take revenge on the hero A-Train (Jack Quaid) who killed his girlfriend. While starlight (Erin Moriarty) joins the Seven and discovers their sad reality. In the end, both characters end up in a relationship despite being on opposing sides.
During the second season of The Boysits protagonists, now with the help of Starlight, continue trying to confront Vought while the government pursues them. Billy Butcher He also discovers that his wife is missing, Becca, is alive and held captive by Vought. The Seven have another new addition to their ranks, stormfront (Aya Cash), who wants to dominate the world with the rest of the Supers.
Summary of The Boys season 3
The third season of The Boys takes place one year after the end of the season 2. In it, The Boys group works for Victoria Neuman’s Office of Superhero Affairs, to confront problematic superheroes after having reached the peace with the Seven.
But the conflicts are rekindled when Billy Carnicero begins to investigate the reality behind the story of Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), Vought’s first American superhero, who had supposedly died in battle but was actually kidnapped by Russia.
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While Billy Carnicero continues his investigation to put an end to the PatriotVought mentally destroys the Super by restricting some of his power, while Starlight and Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) join forces against him by helping The Boys.
The Boys will premiere the first three episodes of its season 4 in Amazon Prime Video the next June 13th, and from then on we will receive a new episode of the series weekly until it ends on Thursday, July 18 with its eighth episode. As is usual in the series, the chapters will have a duration of approximately 60 minutes.
