Steve Ahlman

Yeah, Mouse PI for Hire is like, it's like, imagine like a noir detective story, but it's animated like 1930s Disney and you play like a mouse detective.

It's all like cartoon hand-drawn stuff and you're like shooting perps and stuff.

It's great.

Bikers from Mars.

Jomie, you're disappointed in yourself for that one.

You are freaked out.

He doesn't need to lock the doors anymore.

Yeah, but it's the whole thing where I'm like, this is the most low-stakes spoiler that I can imagine, but I just don't want to get spoiled on it because I'd like to know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like it when a character has a good cathartic death in the kickoff of a season.

Oh, yeah.

Living without fear in the face of Homelander is a victory, and that's all that he needed.

Anthony Star is actually incredible, and I forget how well he has the kind of emotional range to be very angry and petulant and frustrated around the people that are afraid of him and in his circle of power that he is constantly cutting people down.

and disregarding them and wondering why people are afraid of him but then he like comes alive and is incredibly charismatic once he's talking to huey and talking to the rest of the boys like he has like a thrill in him to know that he is slightly challenged and on the back foot and it excites him there's a there's a restraint that he has that this the scene uh when

and it lands a little hollow yeah I agree but Kripke has also like gone on record as to saying that like he's lamented like he hates how much how bad the world is and it's getting in the way of his like creative process because it's become beyond parody now and to like and to fully lean in like this the way that the boys has

kind of diminishes both the real world and the show.

I suppose.

I feel like...

It's interesting because I feel like the show's deafness of like the clearly the best character that the show has a handle on is Homelander and the orbit around the boys being toxic to one another, fight, break up, kiss, make up relationship they've had through all five seasons of this show.