Jordan Moreau SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Payback,” “The Only Man in the Sky” and “Barbary Coast,” the three episodes that are part of the June 3 launch of “The Boys” Season 3.Move over Brangelina and Bennifer, there’s a new celebrity couple in town: Homelight.The trio of “The Boys” Season 3 premiere episodes ended on the Homelight reveal, which does not bode well for Starlight (Erin Moriarty), who’s trying to take down Vought and Homelander (Antony Starr), her increasingly unhinged co-captain of the Seven.
Their forced coupling-up is really just a Vought-engineered bid to increase the social media popularity of the two heroes, and thus the stock price of Vought.
The announcement, complete with their couple-name hashtag, also came during the finale of “American Hero,” a fake reality show in the vein of “Drag Race” and “The Bachelor,” designed to add in new members of the Seven.
However, being a Vought TV show, the results of “American Hero” are really just a brand-focused popularity contest. In addition to Homelander springing #Homelight on her, Starlight is blindsided by the re-addition of the Deep (Chace Crawford) back to the Seven.
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