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The newest episode of The Boys has shocked followers on social media, with viewers calling it “past obscene” and “f***ing bizarre”.
The hit Prime Video present is deep into its fourth season – which is formally the Amazon subscription service’s penultimate installment – with solely two episodes left to spherical out the eight-episode run.
The provocative superhero sequence has disturbed followers earlier than, however the sixth episode of season 4 has taken issues to a brand new stage.
Titled “Soiled Enterprise”, the episode follows Hughie (Jack Quaid) and the remainder of The Boys as they sneak into a celebration on the residence of billionaire superhero Tek Knight (Derek Wilson), with Hughie pretending to be the spider-themed superhero Webweaver.
Hughie spends many of the episode trapped within the “Tek Cave”, a parody of Batman’s lair that’s kitted out to accommodate Tek Knight’s many and assorted sexual wishes.
On X/Twitter, viewers say they’ve been left actually shocked by the extended graphic and sexual scenes.
One person wrote: “Getting via episode 6 of The Boys is likely one of the hardest issues I’ve ever finished
“I’m solely midway via.”
One other acknowledged: “I’m solely half-hour into episode 6 of the Boys and it’s already past obscene. How do they preserve doing this?”
A 3rd added: “Episode 6 of The Boys was each insanely f***ing bizarre and… really nevermind, it was simply f***ing bizarre. Worse than Herogasm imo.”
“Herogasm”, from the third season of The Boys, was set at an annual superhero intercourse competition and had beforehand been thought of essentially the most obscene within the present’s historical past. It’s also at present the present’s highest-rated episode on IMDb with a score of 9.6 stars out of 10.
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“Soiled Enterprise” has confirmed to be extra divisive, with the graphic nature of many scenes proving an excessive amount of for some followers.
One X person wrote: “This episode of #TheBoys was so disgusting they actually do an excessive amount of with the entire excessive graphic sexual content material. It actually takes away from the storyline.”
On Reddit, one other viewer added: “Say what you need about season 4, however I believe we will all agree this was the worst episode to date. Only a gap lotta nothing.”
Some followers complained that the sheer variety of outrageous scenes appeared to overshadow the story, with one writing: “I do know there may be an overarching plot – however, man this season simply appears like a set of random, loopy scenes. Not almost as targeted as S1-3.”
One other replied: “Looks as if this season is the weakest by far and pointless.”
Final month, The Boys showrunner Eric Kripke introduced that present would come to an finish after 5 seasons, writing on X that he was “thrilled to carry the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.”
The ultimate two episodes of season 4 are set to reach on Prime Video on 11 and 18 July.
