S04.E01: Department of Dirty Tricks

[paulvdb]

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CALLING ALL PATRIOTS.  BE AT THE COURTHOUSE TOMORROW FOR HOMELANDER’S #VERDICT AND BE READY.  IF THE CORRUPT “JUSTICE” SYSTEM WANTS TO F**K AROUND, THEY’RE GONNA FIND OUT.  #HOMEFREE

Premiere date: June 13, 2024

[AnimeMania]

Simon Pegg as Hugh Campbell Sr., the father of Hughie Campbell  
Rosemarie DeWitt as Daphne, Hughie Campbell's mother. 
Zach McGowan as Dogknott 
Rafia Iqbal as Hyperion  
Jasper Morris as Wrangler

[AntFTW]

Might take some time to get used to MM's naked face.

[Quickbeam]

I am rooting for Deep and his lady. That could be the biggest win out of this show. 

[AnimeMania]

Why is there a worm swimming around in Butcher's head?

[Tachi Rocinante]

They don't have the time for filler episodes already. Nothing really happened, except for Strain-girl.

[Chicago Redshirt]

10 hours ago, AnimeMania said:

Why is there a worm swimming around in Butcher's head?

Butcher took several doses of "Temp V," which gave him similar powers to Homelander's on a temporary basis. But the tradeoff is if you do too many doses, it is fatal. He did too many doses and he's now got a projected death soon.

Obviously, his death is imminent and there's no way of avoiding it in this comics universe with super-science and powers. /s/

[iMonrey]

Since when is Frenchie bisexual? Is this a new thing or has there been hints of it before? What an odd turnaround after three seasons of him and Kimiko. That made zero sense to me, but maybe I've forgotten something.

It was a pretty brief shot but when Zach McGowan's face came up on the screen as they were considering future Seven replacements I knew he'd show up eventually..

Still enjoy the show, but I have to admit, a lot of the Homelander = Trump stuff is a little too on the nose.

[patty1h]

1 hour ago, iMonrey said:

Since when is Frenchie bisexual? Is this a new thing or has there been hints of it before?

I picked up hints from Frenchie in the previous seasons.  In the ep where they showed Frenchie's previous girlfriend Cherie and their colleague who had overdosed, Frenchie said some things that could be taken that he was involved with both of them.  Also, when MM, Kimiko and Frenchie were in the Supe facility where they met the Love Sausage guy, Frenchie ribbed MM for being disgusted at having the sausage touch him - he said "don't be so close minded".    Last, there was a flashback showing MM and Frenchie talking about MM's upcoming wedding and Frenchie offered to throw him a bachelor party and asked how MM feels about transgender strippers.   

There may have been a few more hints I forgot, but to me, these show that Frenchie is not opposed to alternative lifestyles and most likely participated in some.

Edited June 14, 2024 by patty1h

[MrWhyt]

On 6/14/2024 at 9:53 AM, patty1h said:

There may have been a few more hints I forgot, but to me, these show that Frenchie is not opposed to alternative lifestyles and most likely participated in some.

yeah Frenchie has never struck me as 100% straight, or even 60%.

[tennisgurl]

This is why you don't want to hitch your wagons to people who laser people for no reason, you could easily go from the guy cheering to the guy that's dead. 

Is it weird that I'm rooting for Deep and his octopus girlfriend? I swear, the shit this show makes me type out...

[Blue Plastic]

I don't understand the Frenchie stuff at all. Like, I could buy him being bi, but what happened to all the "mon coeur" Kimiko stuff? And the "we're family" and "let's run off to Marseilles" stuff? And Kimiko doesn't seem to be all that into Frenchie anymore either. I don't get this show anymore.

[roamyn]

Zoe's mouth tentacles freaked me the F out.

And Annie 'flying'? I call BS on that shit.  She's never done it before, only levitated and it took massive power to do that.  I've hated her since last season when she was all laser focused on killing SB, when he could've taken out HL.  She seemed to not care abt all the shit HL put her through.

I do like Butcher being taken down a peg.  He could've destroyed HL last season, gotten Ryan's powers eliminated (maybe), and still has Ryan's love.

Since when did Bobby, er Bob, know that Neumann was a Supe?  I'm assuming it was aft they won the election?

And JDM is looking fine!

Edited July 3, 2024 by roamyn

[CletusMusashi]

Overall, a great episode, as expected. I have two complaints,though, about how Sage analyzed Homelander. For one, I seriously doubt that his superhuman skin and nails would show any stress from washing. And for another... does anybody here actually believe Homelander washes his hands after he pees?

[Mabinogia]

13 hours ago, CletusMusashi said:

And for another... does anybody here actually believe Homelander washes his hands after he pees?

I just assumed he had some underling who held it for him when he peed. No way he's doing that himself, he's Homelander!

[mjc570]

That was amazingly boring.  I don't really understand why, since there was a lot of violence and gore.  Perhaps because everything was so predictable and humorless.  

I guess I'm only interested in Deep and his lovely girlfriend.  I don't care a toss for any of the rest of them, on either side.