S4E5

Beware the Jabberwock, My Son

The Boys · 2024-06-27 · 69 min

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from 16 comments

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what happens

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how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 16 comments — 5 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit16 read

“moments I've had with my dementia-stricken father - including telling me he was looking for his son (me), and the brief moments of terrified clarity in a sea of confusion and fear - to be put on film and masterfully acted by Simon Pegg”
PoetryUpInThisBitch▲ 4,411about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Frenchie in the barn with the rabid V'd out flying sheep: "*Oh, mon Dieu. I can't believe this is fucking happening to me again.*" 🤣”
WetFinsFine▲ 2,969about 50–60% inread it ↗
“homelander emancipating himself and ryan from something “worse then slavery””
newbiegainz00▲ 2,691about 75–100% inread it ↗
“I was terrified that he was going to kill Hughie’s mother. I couldn’t even watch.”

who made it

directed: Shana Stein
written: Judalina Neira

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Simon Pegg as Hugh Campbell
P.J. Byrne as Adam Bourke
Giancarlo Esposito as Stan Edgar
Frances Turner as Monique
Matthew Edison as Cameron Coleman
Liyou Abere as Janine
Will Ferrell as Will Ferrell as Coach Brink

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