It looked like Homelander was ready to laser Starlight (Erin Moriarty) supporters to death in the opening of “We’ll Keep The Red Flag Flying Here.” He cannot stand any breathing human taking her side. Whoever is on her team is a “godless non-binary socialist,” he declares.
Antony Starr’s facial expression of restraint combined with a thinly veiled smile is quite the feat (no surprise there, as he’s mastered it for years on the show). Anyway, Homelander split someone to death, but it doesn’t happen until later in season four’s third episode. Does he realize the chaos he caused at the rehearsal? Probably not.
And he probably doesn’t care that a bunch of cockroaches just died for no reason. It’s astonishing when an enraged Homelander accidentally slices open someone onstage at the Seven-themed holiday musical (a play slightly reminiscent of ’s ). The resulting chaos of everyone trying to escape leads to more bloodshed, with sharp skates acting as weapons.
But everything leading up to that moment, and the events that happened right after, made me roll my eyes. Even for an outrageous TV show like , where the action moves rapidly, it doesn’t make sense that Hughie (Jack Quaid), of all people, could slip away so easily from the the world’s most dangerous supe. I’m sorry but I don’t buy it (yes, I’m aware I’m saying this about a fictional drama in which Deep fucks an octopus).
Hughie and Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) are spying on Homelander, Sister.