This is honestly something else....

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Episode 4 of The Boys has homelander go back home in some of the most dark and psychological stuff Ive ever seen a character go through. we detail it all in the Episode Breakdown

Intro/Outro Music: Home - Resonance

[TtotheCizzel]

Torturing a child who will likely grow up to be a god and then staying in that same place for decades after was pretty fucking stupid. What where they even doing there?

[JonComdy]

I saw a comment in a thread that noticed there weren't lasers on the wall. He tore those people apart

[kacinema]

Magneto: I’ve been at the mercy of men just following orders. Never again!

[captainobvious]

Can't even blame Homie for being a psycho

[Nicholas_Chen_]

Everything is messed up. This cold lab is Homelander’s real home and when he brought that cake with that fake smile there is a deep sadness and bitterness to it. The whole scene is unsettling and tragic. He was raised in this cold, lonesome lab, it was revealed he was manufactured to crave love but he can never get it, and he will still never be happy. Now he realised it, and looks like he has accepted it, he is ready to burn the whole world down because ultimately it amounts to nothing anyway. He will never be happy, he will always be alone, so what matters even?

[levitan]

this is why you send a boy with super powers to kansas.

[MarkiplierMeatMuncher]

the cake melting was the saddest part of the entire episode

[alanarand]

I'm surprised that nobody noticed this yet, but that room symbolizes his mother's womb, hence why it's gorey and filled with blood and guts. This is no more evident than Homelander being showered with blood at the end, symbolizing his rebirth. We also know this because of what was explained earlier in the episode about how Homelander killed some of the scientists and doctors during his birth, just like he did many years later in that same place.

[doomedgundam]

Nobody ever owned up to what they did. Barbara was the worst of all because she tried to pin Homelanders misery on him but then reveals he was mentally made to stay? She deserves the bad room.

[MahediHasan-yguq]

"The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth"

[g.r.senterprisevenatorclas]

Crazy part is, I'm pretty sure the OG scene that was planned for the bunker was way different. Antony Starr himself personally disagreed with how Homelander would have acted in the original take on it, so he asked to do it in a different way.

And we got this master piece.

[flytube]

I never knew Homelander could be so fun when reminiscing with old friends.

[highwind]

It took me forever to notice this, but he welded the red door shut with his laser vision.

[ANJIN-pq]

I had a feeling he was gonna murder everyone in that room, and he did. I think Ashley and A-train are gonna die

[jonny-b]

0:30 That and that's almost certainly how his handlers/teachers growing up approached him. Probably always came up all nice, then turned on the incinerator, hahaha.

[nelsobelso]

That whole episode might just be my favorite episode yet.

[RStartGamingLOL]

Episode 4 was much better than the other three. It felt like it was actually going somewhere. While the others felt slower and were filler/introducing the new characters

[xm-aminigun]

Im happy homelander was so warm to frank after all these years.

[hunterkiller]

One moment you hate Homelander for being a psycho. The next moment you emphathize the reason behind his behavior.

[gaiusjuliuscaesar]

This one seemed like a return to form for Homelander. Seasons 3 and 4 (so far) have really played into his sexual frustration and “manchildness” but this episode explored his psychology in a more nuanced way that reminded me of earlier seasons, where he’s still holding it together but the suspense builds and makes your skin crawl. I think these psychological horror elements are what really established Homelander as one of the scariest on-screen villains.