The Boys show boss promises ‘the worst thing that could happen to every character’ in blood-soaked season 2
THE BOYS show boss has promised a blood-soaked season two in which anything could happen to every character.
In preparation for the drop of the much-anticipated second series this Friday, showrunner Eric Kripke has teased fans with more gory shocks for its eccentric cast of characters.
Kripke said in a recent interview: “We actually played a thought experiment where we tried to come up with the worst thing that could happen to every character, and then try to make that happen this season.
“Because that way you turn up the pressure and they’re all cornered and they’re all desperate. And desperate people start to reveal new parts of themselves because they’re forced to.”
Amazon Prime Video show The Boys is set in an alternate universe where an evil corporation manages a team of so-called crime-fighting superheroes.
These leaders of morals and virtue are actually murderous, selfish, evil and corrupt – happy to do anything to make money and achieve global power.
The Seven, the main force of ‘good’ heroes, is led by crazy and psychotic Homelander, who has the power to fly and shoot deadly lasers from his eyes.
Billy Butcher leads the ragtag group of vigilantes who are set on bringing down the team and exposing them and their company Voight to the public eye.
Season one was packed full of truly shocking and disgusting moments, the best of which can be seen here, and season two looks set to be no different.
Speaking about the upcoming new series, Kripke said: “When you’re making the second season of a show, I think a common mistake that producers make is they try to top it.
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“They try to go bigger and that’s unsustainable. The term in the US is ‘jump the shark’, it starts to become silly because you can’t keep going bigger and bigger.
“I think the way to look at it is you should try each season to go deeper and challenge the characters more, and make things harder and tighten the screws.
“And you don’t need big spectacle, you need actually more intense, more character-driven trauma and dilemmas for them to go through. That’s what we were doing in season two.”