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Jul 8, 2022 · A recap of “The Instant White-Hot Wild,” episode eight and the finale of the third season of ‘The Boys’ on Amazon Prime Video.
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By Matt Donato
Posted: Jul 8, 2022 1:00 pm
Warning: The following contains full spoilers for The Boys Season 3, Episode 8, "The Instant White-Hot Wild," which aired on Prime Video on July 8, 2022. To refresh your memory, check out our review of last week's episode.
After last night's Season 3 finale of The Boys, I'm looking at a different show than the high-energy smash 'em all of only a season ago where extreme violence was always the answer. "The Instant White-Hot Wild" concludes with a more mature, infinitely darker storyline where Butcher (Karl Urban) and the team confront personal hells dragging behind them since Episode 1. It's not the climax of Season 2, where girl-gang montages and plotted sieges culminate in all-out warfare. Butcher, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), and Homelander (Antony Starr) finally collide, but it's not about some royal rumble in Vought Tower where supporting casts are fighting on different floors. It's a finale about atonement, reflection, and moving onward — (mostly) gone is the juvenility of old.
"The Instant White-Hot Wild" is about taking stands and confronting fears, whether that's Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) marching back into Vought Tower or Frenchie (Tomer Capone) demanding respect from his employers. Butcher and Homelander both have miles to go before they become the leaders their squadrons deserve — how they recognize their demons is such a compelling story while reunions happen. Butcher reveals hidden colors by "compassionately" knocking Hughie (Jack Quaid) unconscious to save the lad from V24's fatal effects. Homelander belittles what's left of the Seven in A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), The Deep (Chace Crawford), and Vought International CEO Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie). I don't want to say The Boys is solely about Butcher versus Homelander, yet their sometimes parallel, other times divergent paths become the storytelling cherry on last night's episode. Two heat-seeking monsters, both selfish, finally acknowledge those around them for better or worse.
Digging deeper, The Boys connects dots between upbringings, abusive or neglectful fathers, and the juniors who inherit those traits. All the groundwork laid by the now deceased Jonah Vogelbaum (John Doman) and Butcher's father Sam (John Noble) to shape Butcher and Homelander's hatred becomes clearer when Soldier Boy recalls his tragic fatherly relationship — Soldier Boy was forever a "disappointment," then a "cheater" for gaining Compound V superpowers. Centering all the anger, abandonment issues, and outward gruffness is a childhood without love, damaged by figures who taught machismo with callouses. Bastards raised all three men, and now they're squaring off for a possibly apocalyptic throwdown. Coincidence? The way showrunner Eric Kripke solidifies their bonds through upbringings is a chef's kiss touch, finding a common enemy in generational failings where "men should be men" to massive detriments.
I'm in awe of a show that's evolved and isn't just parroting the same buzzworthy gore beats episode after episode. The Boys is reluctantly (by intention) becoming a show about responsibility and progress that will no doubt remain hyper-violent, yet closes its best season so far on storytelling highs. "The Instant White-Hot Wild" isn't about carnage...
- Matt Donato
Jul 8, 2022 · Darren Mooney. |. Published: Jul 8, 2022 9:00 AM PDT. This discussion and review contains spoilers for The Boys season 3, episode 8, “The Instant White-Hot Wild,” the season finale....
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