Charles Holmes

And I thought one of the really great moments for Anthony Starr was when he's addressing the public and he gets to that line.

The father and the son.

The father line and he starts tripping up.

And he finally, like the mask,

just drops and he's just like no i'm a god if you do not follow me i'm gonna kill all of you i'm just like yeah that to me is way more potent of a commentary because it's saying like when these evil fascists finally get what they want it's still never enough they're gonna burn the entire place down regardless yeah yeah that also is something i feel like i want to step on but that's something i feel like would have been awesome if it came earlier in the season

I will say, my favorite parts of the episode were the catharsis of Homelander finally dying.

But the thing I wanted, to your point, even more time spent on was, we always knew deep down that Huey was going to have to take Butcher out.

And that had been something in the series that they had always played with, which is...

can Butcher be saved?

And I do like, I did like from a storytelling perspective that Butcher finally gets everything he wants.

He finally gets the revenge that he's been waiting for, for his wife and everything that Homelander did to her and their family.

And then...

Just at the precipice, Ryan looks at him and be like, you're a monster too.

And then the only other creature on the world, his dog that loves him, is now dead.

I thought it was a great character turn for Butcher to just be like, if I can't have my happy ending, no Supes can have their happy ending.

I just...

wanted more of that i wanted more of that struggle i wanted more of huey being like it has to be me and i was like damn because i thought that the acting was effective everything about it but i left wanting more so i want to talk specifically about the homelander and huey stuff a little bit later excuse me homelander but uh the butchering huey stuff a little bit later but homelander's death

I even enjoyed... There were, like, small moments when you're realizing, oh...

This is the first time ever he's had to take a real punch.

This is the first time he's been in a fight and has not been the most powerful person.