‘The Boys’: Jack Quaid and Showrunner on Hughie’s ‘Really Embarrassing’ Enhancement and Soldier Boy’s Powers
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Glorious Five Year Plan,” the June 10 episodes of “The Boys.”The week’s episode of “The Boys” Season 3 was all about super powers — yes, more so than any standard episode of the Amazon superhero series.
That’s because it delved into people getting them (Jack Quaid’s Hughie), people losing them (Karen Fukuhara’s Kimiko), people confessing they have acquired them (Karl Urban’s Butcher) and people showing off the bonkers new ones bestowed upon them by the Russians who experimented on them (Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy).Let’s start with Hughie, who upon learning that Butcher has been shooting up Temp V decided he needs to protect Annie (Erin Moriarty), despite the fact Starlight is more than capable of taking care of herself, and takes some of Butcher’s V and uses it to give himself some 24-hour super powers.
He gets the ability to teleport, with the caveat that he loses all of his clothes in the process, and shows off to Kimiko, Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) once Butcher uses his laser-beam eyes in front of The Boys for the first time while they are fighting the Russians to get to the Anti-Supe weapon they think destroyed Soldier Boy. “Hughie is somebody with, in an amusing way, a very well-defined fight or flight reflex,” “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke tells Variety. “It just was funny to us that his first natural instinct in any particular fight is to go.
And so to have a power that made that manifest, that he could literally just pop out of there whenever he was in trouble, like a purely defensive and escape power, felt like something that — if we follow the rule of powers don’t make you bad, they just.
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