At present, there is an update in submission for the Nintendo Switch that will add more challenges, a New Game+ mode, and couch co-op, bringing Indivisible on Nintendo Switch to the same developmental level as the other platforms. After this, 505 Games has no plans to introduce more content or updates for the game. This patch starts rolling out on October 13.
“At this stage, apart from content that is already in submission, there will unfortunately be no more production on [Indivisible],” 505 Games said in a development update post. “We understand that longtime players have been waiting for guest characters as well as some backer-created characters. Regretfully, this additional content will not be added to the game.”
505 Games explained why backer-created and guest characters won’t be added to Indivisible in the update post, saying the “IP holder for at least one of the guest characters has backed out” of the partnership following the dissolution of Lab Zero. 505 expects more will follow suit.
Physical editions of Indivisible for Nintendo Switch are still expected to arrive this November in limited supply at select retailers, and 505 said it will provide updates closer to the release.
Furthermore, the physical IndieGoGo backer reward left to fulfill, the Ajna/Heruka statue, is still coming. 505 is taking over production and will share information about the reward soon.
Though Lab Zero Games may have dissolved, employees of the studio are still in game development. A team of former devs established a worker-owned studio called Future Club with the aim of creating memorable games using handcrafted 2D animation and responsive gameplay.
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All this month, starting October 6, Jason Blum’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse”-branded thriller anthology airs on Amazon. Dropping weekly as double features, the first two films out of the gate are Black Box and The Lie. Those looking for artfully-made, thought-provoking genre films during spooky season might want to tune in to Prime Video on Tuesdays for the next few weeks to see what creepy capers come crawling in the night.
The following are reviews for the first two films, from first-time feature director Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour Jr. and The Killing’s Veena Sud – neither of which are necessarily horror films, per se, though Black Box does reside in a realm of sci-fi uncomfortableness. Both movies, curiously, open with a shot of a happy family holding their newborn baby if one was looking for a more direct connection between them, as these tales very much have to do with broken families and the (sometimes deadly) desire to recapture previous happiness.
In the meditative mad scientist mystery Black Box, which borrows a teensy bit here and there from Inception (the lead character’s name is Nolan, even) and Get Out, Mamoudou Athie plays man who survived a car crash that killed his wife and now struggles daily to take care of his young daughter while living with severe memory loss. Desperate to recover and reclaim his life, Athie’s Nolan visits Phylicia Rashad’s Dr. Brooks for an experimental trip inside his own mind using a virtual memory catcher called the “black box.” Inside his own head, Nolan finds himself in the midst of memories that don’t line up with his own life while, outside in the real world, he continues to display signs of anger issues that he never had previous to the crash.
Black Box is a film that has all the dressings and makings of a ghoulish “malevolent spirit” tale but it’s actually less deranged than it appears. There’s a Twilight Zone-ish twist that’s a little too easy to get out ahead of because the story takes a little too long to unspool. This is a good TV episode hiding inside a stretched-out movie, though the performances are strong and it will never not be fun to see Phylicia Rashad sink her teeth into this kind of gently-menacing role.
Once Black Box answers its lingering questions, heading into the third act, the rest doesn’t really pay off. The build is better than the pay-off. And because Nolan’s mind experiment is loosey-goosey (aside from the hard rule that he is not to exit from any door) it kind of becomes narrative clay, remolding itself to play out however the story needs it to. The strongest element in Black Box resides between Nolan and his daughter Ava (Amanda Christine) and the unsettling, off-key dynamic of a little girl, having lost one parent, now needing to become the caregiver for her other parent. It’s the issue that drives Nolan into Brooks’ chair in the first place and it’s almost the more interesting story.
Those possibly looking for less-stressful fare these days should steer clear of Veena Sud’s The Lie, which after a few years of collecting dust is now a part of the Welcome to the Blumhouse collection. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, The Killing’s Mireille Enos, and The Kissing Booth’s Joey King, The Lie is a righteous nail-biter of a story about a divorced couple who spiral into self-preservation mode after their teen daughter admits to killing her friend.
The tension mounts and mounts here, with one lie following another in the tradition of “crime gone awry” movies like A Simple Plan and Fargo. And at the heart of everything is young Kayla (King), who’s had to watch her parents split apart and become more and more detached from, and disinterested in, her as they focused on their own careers and/or romantic relationships. Kayla is not well and the film nicely shifts back and forth between painting her as either an immature prankster or a very emotionally disturbed girl who has no interest in covering up what she’s done like her parents do.
The Lie has some tremendous scene work that really helps the viewer understand each wrong move (it kind of has to since it must very quickly justify its main characters doing horrendous things) but looming over it all is the narrative knowledge that this will not end well. It’s that kind of story. So when the knife does twist right in the final minutes, it’s expected. The full explanation also doesn’t land completely right, but King’s performance in the film, especially in the final moments, is a harrowing peek inside emotional unwellness.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association. Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at Facebook.com/MattBFowler.
Square Enix has detailed when Final Fantasy XIV‘s next big content update will drop. During its latest Letter from the Producer broadcast, Square Enix confirmed that Patch 5.4, titled Futures Rewritten, will arrive in early December, and it’ll introduce a wealth of additional content for the Shadowbringers expansion.
Among other things, Patch 5.4 will add new main scenario quests. As Square Enix describes, “Following the grand conclusion of the Shadowbringers story in Patch 5.3, players will set out on a new adventure” in December’s update. The patch will also introduce the third installment in the Eden raid series, as well as the next chapter in the Sorrow of Werlyt questline.
Beyond that, Patch 5.4 will also bring the dreaded Emerald Weapon to Final Fantasy XIV. Players will be able to challenge it in both normal and extreme difficulties. There will also be a new dungeon, Matoya’s Relict, which is going to be part of the new main story questline. On top of that, the patch will introduce a new Unreal trial and a new Explorer mode that lets you venture around dungeons to take screenshots without have to worry about dealing with enemies.
Other changes coming in Patch 5.4: Violins will be added to the range of playable instruments; the Blue Mage job will receive numerous tweaks, including an increased level cap; the Triple Triad minigame is getting revised match rules and new limited-time tournaments; and more.
In the meantime, Patch 5.35 will arrive next week, on October 13. That update will bring its own assortment of new content to the game, including the next chapter in the Save the Queen questline and the new Bozjan Southern Front battle content. You can read more about the upcoming patches on Square Enix’s website.
Beyond the new content updates, Square Enix confirmed that Final Fantasy XIV will be backwards compatible with PS5, and it’ll enjoy some enhancements on the newer console. According to the publisher, the game will load much quicker on PS5, and players will be able to use its PS4 Pro display settings when playing it on PS5.
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The popular Disney ride Space Mountain is being adapted into a movie, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Writer Joby Harold, who is also behind Disney+’s upcoming 2020 Obi-Wan Kenobi series, has been hired to pen the script for the live-action adaptation and serve as producer.
Joining Harold as producer is his wife Tory Tunnell (My Blind Brother) and Rideback Productions (The Lego Movie franchise, Aladdin). Details on the newly hatched project are still fairly barebones–there’s no plot or casting information yet–but the movie is expected to have a theatrical rather than streaming release.
Since first debuting at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in 1975 and Disneyland in 1977, Space Mountain has gone on to become practically synonymous with the parks themselves. The indoor roller coaster has riders blast off through a swirling solar field and throttle through many twists and turns–which should provide plenty of thrills and also serve as a good launching pad for big-screen fun. In recent years, the ride has also seen temporarily retheming to become a Star Wars-centric attraction called Hyperspace Mountain.
When David Gordon Green’s hugely successful Halloween reboot hit theaters in 2018, much was made about the fact the film ignored every sequel since John Carpenter’s original 1978 classic movie, and reset the franchise timeline. And the results spoke for themselves–a worldwide gross of $255 million, the rapid greenlighting of two sequels, and the revitalization of a horror franchise that had sat dormant for nearly a decade.
However, for some fans, there was a definite sense of déjà vu. Hadn’t we been here before, 20 years earlier, with 1998’s Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later? After a decade of increasingly bad sequels, H20 took the series back to its scary roots, and while the movie did acknowledge 1981’s Halloween II as part of its timeline–and therefore the reveal of Laurie Strode as Michael Myers’ sister–it discounted Halloween 4, 5, and 6 entirely (Halloween III: Season of the Witch being an unconnected standalone). Jamie Lee Curtis returned as Laurie, and it was a critical and commercial success.
Unfortunately, all that hard work was completely undone but the terrible Halloween: Resurrection four years later, and by Rob Zombie’s extremely divisive remakes. Viewed today, H20 feels like a movie of its era–the young cast of upcoming stars (Michelle Williams, Josh Harnett, Joseph Gordon Levitt), a popular rapper (LL Cool J), and self-referential post-Scream screenplay. And while director Steve Miner was an experienced filmmaker, he doesn’t bring the same visual flair that Green did in the 2018 movie.
But where it counts, H20 holds up. It’s entertaining, funny, and tense. The movie features a great performance from Curtis and helped give the franchise a second, albeit temporary, lease of life. The movie was reissued in 2014 on Blu-ray that featured a new commentary from Miner and Curtis, so we’ve listened to that and looked back over the variety of behind-the-scene material produced at the time to find some the best, most surprising, and fascinating references, Easter Eggs, and things you didn’t know about the film. And once you’ve read that, check out our guide to the original Halloween.
Bly Manor is bringing the scares to Netflix this Halloween season.
Netflix’s The Haunting Of Bly Manor is as much a ghost story as it is a sweeping, gothic romance, which means that its scares are a healthy blend of jump-out-of-your-skin spooks and slowly escalating moments of dread that change and evolve over the course of the show.
That, and there are plenty of hidden ghosts to find that add a whole other layer of terror to the experience of watching the show. But for the sake of this breakdown, we’re going to focus on the moments that are a little easier to find.
Of course, these scares are going to include spoilers from the show, so if you haven’t finished, you’ll want to turn around and come back later.
We went through all 9 episodes of the Hill House follow-up and made note of everything that made our skin crawl, our hearts break, or the hairs on the backs of our necks stand up and, after a lengthy process of elimination and debate, came up with the 15 scariest moments in Bly. Which moments terrified you the most? Let us know in the comments what you thought of the show.
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1.) Episode 1: Dani gets trapped in the closet
There’s nothing quite as terrifying as being punked by very haunted children in a horror movie, and Bly Manor understands that in its bones. The first episode of the show culminates with Miles and Flora playing an inexplicable “prank,” with obvious ulterior motives, on Dani–locking her in Flora’s walk-in closet and refusing to let her out even as she begins to panic.
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2.) Episode 1: The mirror man
Less a single moment and more a recurring theme through the entire first episode, Dani is stalked through her life–and any reflective surfaces–by a mysterious ghost who only seems to pop up at the most inconvenient times. Dani has apparently adapted her life to his presence, throwing blankets over any reflective surface so that she won’t be able to see him, but the fact that he’s there at all is horrifying.
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3.) Episode 2: The thing in the attic
This was a moment in the earliest teasers for the show and it’s no wonder why–the fact that there’s a shambling, wheezing monster in the Bly Manor attic and that Flora is apparently so unbothered by it she just tells it to be quiet is a one-two punch. This moment makes our skin crawl.
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4.) Episode 2: Miles chokes Dani
In case you missed the part where these kids are extremely creepy, Miles nearly takes a game of hide and seek too far by putting Dani in a choke hold, and refuses to let up even as Dani starts to panic. It’s obvious foreshadowing for a major reveal later in the season, but even isolated from that context it’s extremely ominous–these kids are not alright.
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5.) Episode 3: Dani’s in bed with a ghost
By Episode 3, the man in the mirror is starting to become a serious problem for Dani and it all starts with him showing up in Dani’s bed as a bruised and battered hand, reaching out to her across the covers.
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6.) Episode 3: The mirror man no more
Episode 3 ends on a major jump-scare as Dani turns around to head back to the manor and is confronted with the mirror man, no longer confined to a reflection, standing and waiting for her. To make things worse, he never speaks or even makes a move to grab her, he just stands there and it’s absolutely chilling.
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7.) Episode 4: The accident
This one is less a spooky ghost moment and more a horrific tragedy. Learning what happened to Dani’s ex-fiance made our stomachs churn.
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8.) Episode 4: The kiss, interrupted
Even knowing who the mirror man is and what happened to him, he’s still a terrifying presence in Dani’s life–especially when he suddenly shows up to interrupt her kiss with Jamie.
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9.) Episode 5: Hannah’s wake-up call
Basically all of Episode 5 is chilling in its own way, with its disorientating cuts and skips through Hannah’s memories, but the moment that made us jump the most was Owen’s very abrupt wake-up call.
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10.) Episode 6: The kid. Just, the kid.
Do we even need to explain this one at all? Come on.
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11.) Episode 6: Ms. Jessel’s jump scare
While Bly Manor tends to avoid traditional jump scare moments, it does have a couple that it deploys to great effect–like this moment when Dani looks into Flora’s room to see Ms. Jessel sitting there with her. The audio stinger does most of the work here–those discordant strings are the absolute worst.
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12.) Episode 7: Ms. Jessel drowns
On the exact opposite end of the spectrum is the slow burning moment where we see exactly what happened to Rebecca Jessel. It’s equal parts horrific and tragic, which makes it incredibly hard to watch.
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13.) Episode 8: Perdita’s choice
Episode 8’s period setting makes it rife with all sorts of unusual and creepy moments, like seeing poor Viola subjected to some really awful “medical” practices like blood-letting and leeches, but the moment that takes the cake is Perdita’s “mercy” killing. Like Ms. Jessel’s murder, Viola’s death is agonizing to watch while also being completely heartbreaking.
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14.) Episode 8: The romance of certain old clothes
If you’re a Henry James fan and noticed the title of this episode, this moment probably didn’t come as a massive surprise to you. It’s taken right out of the short story by the same name. Viola’s ghostly arms reaching out from her empty dress to strangle her sister to death is one of the more violent turns a James ghost has taken, and seeing it here in live action is insanely scary.
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15.) Episode 9: The inescapable march
The real scare of Bly Manor’s final episode doesn’t come from any one moment, but the pervasive sense of dread and inevitability that looms over Dani and Jamie’s life together. It’s beautiful and happy, for a time, but even that happiness is clouded by the fact that Dani is eventually going to have to pay the price for her actions. So, when Viola’s reflection does begin haunting her, it makes for one of the most horrific moments of the show.
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New York Comic-Con is taking place virtually this year, so you’re going to miss out on things in NYC like trying to get from one end of the Javits Center to Artist Alley–taking that real crowded elevator to the lower level–eating a whole pizza by yourself in Manhattan at 1 AM, and hearing two people hold up traffic to yell at each other about a parking spot. However, you can still get all the news about upcoming seasons of your favorite TV shows like all three of AMC’s The Walking Dead series.
On Saturday, October 10, NYCC will host three Walking Dead panels. But how do you watch them? Well, it’s exceptionally easy. NYCC is a free virtual event, and its panels all exist on YouTube. There will be panels for AMC’s Fear The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead–which recently spoiled its Season 10 finale–and new spinoff The Walking Dead: World Beyond, all featuring the cast and crew discussing the individual shows.
Additionally, on October 9, there was a shorunners panel for the three series, which has already aired, and you can watch it right now in its entirety. Below, you’ll find the links for all the Walking Dead panels, and if you want a little more TWD in your life, check out our explanation of who the mysterious soldiers are from a recent episode.
Fear The Walking Dead
Begins October 10 at 11:35 AM PT / 2:35 PM ET.
The Walking Dead: World Beyond
Begins October 10, 12:10 PM PT / 3:10 PM ET.
The Walking Dead
Begins October 10, 12:45 PM PT / 3:45 PM ET.
The Walking Dead Showrunners Summit
Showrunners Angela Kang (The Walking Dead), Andrew Chambliss and Ian Goldberg (Fear the Walking Dead), and Matt Negrete (The Walking Dead: World Beyond) discuss the Walking Dead universe. The panel aired on October 9, and can be watched now above.
Stay tuned for more coverage from these panels as they happen. We’ll post the important information up above.
Genshin Impact looks a lot like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, to the point that plenty of folks immediately compared the two when Genshin Impact was first announced. But the similarities between the two games is more than skin-deep–both share a few mechanics and features, as well.
In the video above, Max Blumenthal shows off these similarities, ranging from how the characters move and attack to what types of puzzles are found in both games. Genshin Impact even manages to take inspiration from Breath of the Wild’s Champion Abilities, as three of the RPG’s characters possess powers that closely resemble Daruk’s Protection, Revali’s Gale, and Urbosa’s Fury in both appearance and utility.
Which isn’t to say that Genshin Impact is an exact copy of Breath of the Wild; it’s just heavily inspired by Nintendo’s opus. As Max explains in another video, Genshin Impact builds upon what Breath of the Wild does, utilizing the mechanics and features of an open-world action game to amplify its RPG gameplay.
Created by Chinese developer Mihoyo, Genshin Impact is a free-to-play, open world RPG available for PC, PS4, and mobile devices (a Switch port is in the works as well). The game sees you play as an evolving party of different characters, each of whom can command one of the world’s elements. You can unlock new characters by playing the game or pay real-world money to participate in the gacha mechanics–basically a randomized loot box.
The following is a spoiler-free review for the first two episodes of The Right Stuff, which premiered Friday, October 9 on Disney+.
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Disney+ is getting into the Space Race with its new series The Right Stuff, which dramatizes the story of the Mercury Seven astronauts, who, back in the height of the Cold War, were selected to be pioneers in the first human spaceflight program for the United States. The first two episodes, which premiered on October 9, offer up some nice performances and interesting characterizations for a handful of historical figures, but overall the series feels bland and fruitless.
As an adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s best-selling book, The Right Stuff represents a stab at slightly more mature fare for the streaming service before the MCU shows kick off with WandaVision and possibly push things more into the land of “hard PG-13.”
Previous to this show, the saga once became synonymous with Oscar wins thanks to Philip Kaufman’s 1983 film starring Ed Harris, Scott Glenn, Dennis Quaid, and many other talented stars. However, the movie tipped over the three-hour mark, making it clear this was a complex and lofty story to tell. One that might even be better suited as, say, an ongoing series.
The Right Stuff on Disney+, from National Geographic and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, is a mostly enjoyable look back at a time when the “American way of life” was in danger of being lost if our country couldn’t beat the Russians into space. Context-wise, when looking at current events, it all feels a bit trite by comparison, especially considering how concerned these characters are that scandals, or any blemishes in the public eye, could quickly sink the entire program. Overall, it’s best to focus on the characters here, even if most of them tend to blend effortlessly into the background.
The Right Stuff, as a series, reshapes and remolds elements of Wolfe’s book as well as Kaufman’s movie. It expands on the story in certain parts while also nixing entire arcs and even characters altogether. The episodic structure now gives the story more room to breathe and explore, though in these first two episodes it doesn’t produce anything necessarily exciting or engaging. It’s an example of more just being more. At its heart here, after the first two chapters, The Right Stuff is the tale of three men (and four who don’t really resonate) who long to be a part of history despite the chinks in their respective armor.
Patrick J. Adams’ (Suits) famed flyboy John Glenn is already seen as “over the hill” but his celebrity status makes him the most media-savvy of the bunch. Jake McDorman’s (Shameless) antsy, arrogant ace Alan Shepard is a jealous, competitive philanderer who doesn’t want his wife to find out about his many affairs. And Colin O’Donoghue’s (Once Upon a Time) Gordo Cooper is so terrified that people will find out he’s separated from his wife that he convinces her to move back home and pretend to be a happy family. As the main trio, they all play well off each other, though it’s the respectful rivalry between Glenn and Shepard that mostly takes center stage. Their gentlemanly antagonism is the most interesting part of the series, but it’s not enough to remove the other plodding elements. Namely, all the other characters.
The first episode, “Sierra Hotel,” involves Project Mercury’s intense selection process, thinning a herd of over 100 candidates down to the nitty-gritty seven, while the second installment shines a spotlight on how huge these newly-minted “astronauts” became (this was when the term/title was invented) on a national level. Thrust into a media circus, the Mercury Seven, most of whom simply enjoyed the solitary thrill of flying a plane at super-high speeds, became an overnight sensation. And while these two chapters nicely focus on different themes stemming from separate events, they can’t overcome the generic tone and low-level stakes created by rooms filled with chest-puffing men trying to not be forgotten by history.
The Right Stuff is noble and obvious in its efforts to take us back to a shining moment of historic achievement, but the end result, thus far, is kind of middling. It’s not bad, mind you, just aggressively decent. Maybe I’m just not used to Disney sheen in an episodic format. I’m certainly okay with it as a movie, when the studio puts out inspirational sports films and such, but as a series there’s an edge lacking. That doesn’t mean things need to get oppressively dark or gritty, but the output here feels very basic and bereft at times. Much of it has to do with how disposable all the astronauts who aren’t Glenn, Shepard, and Cooper feel. Mad Men’s Aaron Staton, One Tree Hill’s James Lafferty, Michael Trotter, and Micah Stock play the other four astronauts whose stories get short-sheeted.
Perhaps the tale itself isn’t as easily engaging as it once was, even as groundbreaking science and/or a monumental endeavor. Regardless, The Right Stuff makes no bones about how most of its characters all feel cut from the same strong-jawed male cloth. There’s even a remark about it when all the astronaut hopefuls check into the same hotel and congregate in the lobby bar, all going by the pseudonym “Bill Baker”. It’s up to the series to show us that, aside from the main three, they’re not all interchangeable, but so far it feels like an uphill climb.
The Boys Season 2 was one heck of a ride. From the mystery of the head explosions to The Deep’s adventure joining a cult, Season 2 went to some truly weird and shocking places. Oh, and a literal nazi won over the hearts and minds of America–although that part doesn’t seem so far-fetched these days, which is definitely the point.
With the Season 2 finale, “What I Know,” streaming now, it’s time for us to examine the entire journey and look at where the final episode leaves us. After all, we’re already looking forward to The Boys Season 3.
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By the end of the Season 2 finale, Butcher has once again lost Becca–this time for good. She’s killed accidentally by her son Ryan when he tries to save her from Stormfront. That leaves Butcher at probably his lowest point yet–even worse than when she chose to stay at the compound earlier in the season. However, Mallory presents a path forward: She’s getting funding directly from Congresswoman Victoria Neuman (more on her later) so The Boys can continue their mission of keeping tabs on the world’s supes. Butcher doesn’t reply to the proposal right away, but given everything he’s lost, it’s fair to guess that he’ll take the opportunity to continue seeking revenge against Homelander however he can.
The other members of The Boys get relatively happy endings to their season-long arcs, since the charges against them–even the ones for the crimes they actually did commit–are all dropped by the end. Mother’s Milk reunites with his family, while Frenchie and Kimiko go dancing. Kimiko has begun teaching Frenchie her sign language, and they’re closer than ever. And Hughie, who feels he never fully fit in with the rest of the gang, gets a job with Congresswoman Neuman so he can keep fighting against Vought but maybe with less carnage and living in hiding.
The Seven
The Seven didn’t fare so well in Season 2. With Shockwave’s death at the hearing, A-Train is back on the team, thanks also to Alistair’s intervention with Vought CEO Stan Edgar. And his heart seems to be in better shape. The same can’t be said for The Deep, who by his final scene has been labeled a “toxic personality” by the Church of the Collective, and is still kicked out of The Seven.
Black Noir, meanwhile, is in a tree nut-induced coma since his encounter with Starlight and Queen Maeve in Episode 7. And Stormfront is either dead or, as Homelander puts it, “neutralized” and imprisoned somewhere only Vought knows.
Besides A-Train, who isn’t present at Vought’s final press conference of the season, that leaves three core members of The Seven remaining: Starlight, whose name has been cleared; Queen Maeve, who successfully blackmailed Homelander into chilling out for a while; and Homelander himself, who concludes his arc this season by repeatedly telling himself that he can do whatever he wants, while vigorously masturbating over the city. The relationship between the three of them is sure to be fraught going forward.
The Rest
The Boys Season 2 racked up quite the body count. Almost every new character introduced this season was dead by the end, from Alistair, the head of the Church of the Collective, to Lamplighter, and even Kimiko’s brother Kenji. And several existing characters bit the dust it as well: Raynor in the season premiere, Shockwave, and Vogelbaum. Even Stormfront, the series’ worst villain yet, was put out of commission in the end, though we’ll have to wait and see whether she’s actually dead.
With all those ends tied up, that leaves just a few additional characters to discuss–chief among them Congresswoman Victoria Neuman. The finale’s closing moments made it clear that Neuman was secretly on Vought’s side all along, allowing Vought to control both sides of the debate over Compound V. Neuman herself is a supe, and she was the one who killed Raynor, popped all the heads at the hearing, and killed Alistair in the finale. It’s a great twist–one that even Claudia Doumit, the actress who plays Neuman, wasn’t aware of until the hearing scene.
With Neuman on Vought’s side, it seems Stan Edgar really can’t lose. He ends the season still on top, with no consequences yet for his blatant regard for morality, human life, ethics, or really anything else besides money. Sure, he’ll face some vicious opposition from The Boys in the future, but now that they’re likely going to be funded directly by Neuman, it seems he’ll even have control over Butcher and the gang, to a degree. At least Mallory got ahold of Ryan instead of Vought, although if anyone can find out where the CIA is hiding him in the future, it will be Neuman. Dang.
