Some truly disgusting things happen onscreen during Prime Video’s superhero satire that is now airing its fourth season. One scene haunts Chace Crawford in particular. He plays the Deep, an Aquaman parody, who has an intimate interaction with an octopus in Season 3 that he says is frequently portrayed by fans at conventions.
“That scene was pretty much [the worst],” he told Yahoo Entertainment. “I had a freak-out like 24 hours before filming, where I had to call [showrunner ] and be like, ‘Yo, what are we doing here?’” Kripke talked him down from the proverbial ledge, and since then, he hasn’t had to film anything as personally unsettling. “Obviously, Eric was right.
We’d already done so many ridiculous things, I was just being selfish and worried about myself,” Crawford added. “I was just thinking about my parents.” But that was last season — the horrors viewers might behold in Season 4 are still in the process of unfolding, though there’s to be something shocking in every episode.
Though the TV show graded for mature audiences is notoriously gory and raunchy, many of its horrors are existential. In the world of superheroes are celebrities who hold political power in addition to their godlike abilities. Many of them abuse their talents, but none more so than Homelander, an evil Superman parody played by .
A GIF of Homelander after Season 3. Starr jokingly told Yahoo Entertainment that it was disappointing because he “doesn’t get paid for any.