“The Boys” creator and showrunner Eric Kripke has said he wanted to use the second season of his Amazon Prime Video superhero-vigilante drama to address the white supremacy he was seeing play out on social media. Enter Stormfront (Aya Cash), a seemingly indestructible new member of the Seven who, at first, is loved for her kick-ass female energy but is soon exposed as a Nazi. In the finale episode, “What I Know,” the other women finally get a chance to express their justified anger (and provide a bit of wish fulfillment for the audience) by taking her on.
What starts as a moment for Maeve (Dominique McElligott), who previously expressed concern that nothing ever changes, to take some power back becomes the ultimate team-up between her, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara). Although they can’t defeat Stormfront, who eventually flies out of harm’s way, there is catharsis...
What starts as a moment for Maeve (Dominique McElligott), who previously expressed concern that nothing ever changes, to take some power back becomes the ultimate team-up between her, Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara). Although they can’t defeat Stormfront, who eventually flies out of harm’s way, there is catharsis...
- 6/3/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
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