‘The Boys’ Showrunner and Stars Spill ‘Herogasm’ Secrets, Including the One Note Amazon Gave on Superhero Orgy
variety.comSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Herogasm,” the June 24 episode of “The Boys.”“The Boys” finally blew its biggest load of wild content this Friday with the release of the Amazon Prime Video superhero series’ long-awaited “Herogasm” installment.
In just an hour, showrunner Eric Kripke, episode writer Jessica Chou and director Nelson Cragg went balls to the wall by throwing The Boys and The Supes into the sticky situation of the 70th annual superhero orgy event Herogasm.It’s an episode of “The Boys” pulled directly out of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book series that the show is based on, and was adapted in as much X-rated glory as Kripke and the team felt they could conceivably put Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), MM (Laz Alonso), Annie/Starlight (Erin Moriarty), The Deep (Chace Crawford), Homelander (Antony Starr), Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and many a background character through.
Special credit goes to MM, who suffered an unexpected explosion of semen all over his body courtesy of Love Sausage, the superhero with an extra elongated and fully controllable penis, who previously strangled MM with his genitalia in “The Boys” Season 2.
Variety spoke with Kripke and “The Boys” stars about the many explicit scenes that made up “Herogasm” — and the surprisingly emotional moments that will have repercussions in the back half of Season 3.Let’s start at the beginning, as “Herogasm” warms up its audience by opening the episode with a spoof of “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot’s “Imagine” video, which was released at the start of the pandemic and featured celebrities like Natalie Portman, Cara Delevingne, Kaia Gerber, Kristen Wiig, Zoë Kravitz, Will Ferrell, Pedro Pascal, Mark Ruffalo,.
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