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First off, congratulations to Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy for dropping Season 3 today, Disney+’s Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi for dropping its series/season finale, and the streamer’s Ms. Marvel for yet another great episode. As you can see, Wednesday is a pretty big geek day from a streaming series standpoint. But then there’s “Herogasm” waiting for us at the end of the week. As you can tell by the reactions on social media, there are a ton of folks excited about the sixth episode of Amazon & Showrunner Eric Kripke’s The Boys. To catch up on what everyone (including us) is getting all hot-and-bothered about, check out our last update here.
This time around, we’ve got series star Erin Moriarty (Starlight) displaying one of the many, many interesting things we’ll be feasting our eyes on this week. Except because this is Instagram we’re talking about, it took the power of a Sharpie to make what Moriarty’s holding IG-friendly. Though if we’re being honest (and maybe this speaks to our collective perverted minds), leaving it to our imaginations is probably far, far worse (or better). “Herogasm; ‘not suitable for any audience’ inDEED. Things you can’t unsee but can’t look away from. Who can guess what I’ve got my hands on here? ***Hint: the real photo’s gonna be deleted by Instagram. Maybe get me banned? (Hold on to your hats, fam. Everything up until this one has been PG). FRIDAY,” was the caption accompanying Moriarty’s post (with the streaming series’ official IG offering a much more “family-friendly” guess at what it could be):
WARNING: This Episode Depicts a Massive Supe Orgy, Airborne Penetration, Dildo-Based Maiming, Extra Strength Lube, Icicle Phalluses and Cursing. It Is Not Suitable for Any Audience
Okay, now that we got the official warning from the show out of the way about what’s to come, here’s your look at Amazon’s The Boys S03E06 “Herogasm” (or, at least what they could show):
During an interview with EW, Kripke and Jack Quaid (Hughie) discussed how close the episode matches the comics and how intense the filming was on everyone on set… and the one “Herogasm” moment that couldn’t make the cut.
While Kripke’s a Fan of the Homelander/Soldier Boy Sex Scene in the Comics, It Won’t Work Here: “I love that scene and it’s hilarious, but for a dozen reasons, all of which will be revealed when you see the season, it ultimately just didn’t track. We talked about it. It conflicted with a lot of the other things we were trying to build with Soldier Boy. So, unfortunately, that one had to go,” Kripke explained. “I would love to see Soldier Boy and Homelander f***ing, but it can’t happen in this show, unfortunately, for reasons everyone understands.”
Quaid Believes “Herogasm” True to Comics, Goes Places “You Wouldn’t Necessarily Expect It to Go”: “I read all of the comic books when I was cast as Hughie, and ‘Herogasm’ was one of those issues where I was like, ‘Okay, we need to do this or some version of this because this is the craziest thing I’ve ever read. I think we definitely stayed true to the comic. I can’t really say much about ‘Herogasm.’ I think the joy of ‘Herogasm’ is figuring out what exactly that means, watching it for yourself… seeing how it unfolds. That goes into places where you wouldn’t necessarily expect it to go.”
Kripke Shares an Anecdote to Describe the ‘Herogasm” Experience: “How you could have been around that much explicit nudity for that many days on a hot, stuffy, sticky film set is just … How anyone survived it, I don’t know. I asked Paul [EP Paul Grellong] at one point, ‘What’s it like being there?’ And he’s like, ‘Day 1, it’s really novel and you’re surrounded by all these beautiful naked people. By day 2, they’re all naked mole rats and you just want to get outside.’ I was like, ‘That makes sense.'”
In an interview with Variety, Vernon Sanders, Amazon Studios Head of Global Television, discussed how things are looking with The Boys universe expanding:
“The Boys: Diabolical” Season 2? “There is absolutely the possibility. We were excited when we launched. We thought there was a two-fold opportunity with ‘Diabolical.’ One was to get ‘The Boys’ fans excited about and get it out early. But we also wanted to see if there was another bite of the apple once the mothership show returned, and we are seeing real engagement and growth of the show there. We’ve definitely had conversations with the producers about what the next installment would look like.”
Untitled College-Based Spinoff? “We are thrilled, the dailies look great, we are excited about the cast that we have. It absolutely has ‘The Boys,’ it’s part of the show, but I think the other thing we are excited about, it’s different in its own way. It’s definitely been a long road. I have to admit, when Eric Kripke came to talk to us about the spinoff, we were so excited about the potential of it, we told him we wanted it two years earlier than he said he could get it done. Eric has been great and brought great showrunners as well.”
More Spinoffs? “There’s ideas beyond the shows that we have. We want to pace ourselves. The launch of the show this season so far has really blown us away, and I wouldn’t be surprised if you heard about more but for the time being, we are focused on this next show and making sure that it lives up to everything it needs to be, and so far, we are on track.”
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