it’s willing to be, especially when it comes to sex. In Season 1, a female supe accidentally exploded a dude’s head with her vagina while he was going down on her; in Season 2, we watched in horror as Homelander crushed another guy’s head while having public sex with a Nazi. The Season 3 premiere dialed things up even further by having an Ant-Man-inspired supe crawl inside his lover’s urethra, only to accidentally expand to normal size while he was up in there. headlines.
“Dirty Business,” meanwhile, has no such trick up its sleeve. There are a few fun plot developments throughout the rest of the episode, like Sister Sage’s ill-timed brain damage or A-Train’s continued alliance with the Boys, but it’s not much. There’s nothing exciting enough to wash out the bad taste that’s left from poor Hughie being forced to sit bare-ass on a chocolate cake.
“Dirty Business” should be a wake-up call to the show that something needs to change. You can only throw in so many gross-out sex scenes before the joke finally gets old, just as you can only torture Hughie for so long before fans wonder if you don’t know what to do with him. Asheads into its fifth and final season, hopefully it knows we’ve gotten our fill of “Herogasm”-style episodes. Please, for the love of god, don’t give us a round three.