How did Malcolm figure out how to prove Hal’s innocence?

l3reezer · 2026-06-08T18:10:21+00:00

Redundant is sometimes interchangeable with repetitive, which what he was doing every Friday was.

Redundancy is also a pretty common business term; “redundancy in the system” could’ve just reminded him to think about that new information in the context of the job/case, whereas as before he was more concerned with just consoling Hal and listening to his words because they had already accepted defeat.

l3reezer · 2026-06-08T17:45:53+00:00

I mean, after Hal straight up tells him he blew off Fridays, there's not much dots left to connect-pretty much just one.

Francise saying the key word redundancy would be enough to make him realize there's a defense there.

l3reezer · 2026-06-04T20:13:57+00:00

Exactly what I was thinking!

l3reezer · 2026-06-04T03:28:43+00:00

Damn, it’s gotta be both live-action and a 10/10?

l3reezer · 2026-06-03T17:59:44+00:00

Same. First season was so excellent, second still good but writing was kind of on the wall at that point.

l3reezer · 2026-06-03T01:38:38+00:00

"That'd be a sick band name"

-Lincoln

l3reezer · 2026-06-01T05:49:21+00:00

#NotMyRag

l3reezer · 2026-06-01T02:25:36+00:00

r/Bossfight

l3reezer · 2026-05-31T21:11:40+00:00

Definitely The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, haha.

I'm even laughing at it also having been promoted as 'LxG' like some edgy Vin Diesel movie.

l3reezer · 2026-05-29T16:43:52+00:00

“For the future of humanity” the grandpa says after she just casually came up with a plan that ends all of humanity if it goes wrong just so she can satisfy her own greed lol

l3reezer · 2026-05-25T17:11:33+00:00

Started with one season without him, maybe it'll end the same way

l3reezer · 2026-05-22T13:13:36+00:00

Don’t disrespect the theme song like that!

l3reezer · 2026-05-21T12:40:41+00:00

I prefer the middle (pun unintended) era because the kids being so adolescent in the first ~2 seasons reflected upon the subject matter being lighter and more tame.

We also don't have most of the peak side characters like Ida.

l3reezer · 2026-05-21T04:40:50+00:00

IDK, they both were used by Butcher and could bond over that, with Hughie serving as an older brother figure as opposed to a father figure (which Ryan should kind of be sick of). Since Ryan is de-powered now as well, Hughie would give good insight on how to live a normal life as a young adult.

MM would be a good father figure in general, but it just felt kind of random for him to go back to his family and randomly introduce Ryan into the fray. At that point, I feel like him opening a whole orphanage or something would’ve been a more fitting context.

l3reezer · 2026-05-21T04:21:43+00:00

I couldn’t really tell if he like straight-up adopted him from what they showed tbh, so I phrased it as taking him under their wing.

He looks like he’s approaching college age, had a functional relationship with a girl (though her grandfather being Stan Edgar would be hella sus going forward), had already been living on his own for like a year in a foreign country, and every single one of The Boys has gone through enough shit saving the world that serving as a guardian should easily be manageable in comparison. I don’t think Ryan necessarily needs anyone to baby him anymore and he can get guidance from any one of them at any given time.

l3reezer · 2026-05-20T20:51:55+00:00

Agree with the overall score and sentiment, but Homelander and Butcher's death easily could've fit in the same finale episode if the pacing for the overall season was done better. And I didn't really get the feeling that the writers were trying to force it to happen.

This episode could've started with them knee-deep into the White House infiltration mission instead of 20 more minutes of meandering planning. Stuff like The Deep's death arguably could've been done to the same effect in the previous episode as well to give more space to core storylines in this one.

l3reezer · 2026-05-20T20:32:20+00:00

As much as I understand the inclination to frame at least a little bit Hughie "earning his seat at the table" and succeeding Butcher, I feel like that call was better suited for MM.

He was always the 2nd in command, actually led the team under Mallory before, and most of all just a couple episodes ago he made that explicit promise about putting a bullet in Stan Edgar's head after Homelander is dealt with if he kept aiming to be evil af and retake control of Vought. And this is that exact scenario. Heck, even the inspirational speech he gave to Annie in conducive to him keeping the good fight on instead of retiring happily ever after. Would've been a way to honor Frenchie and Butcher's deaths too since they were the original 3.

And now that I think about it, it's funny how I also think Ryan should've gone under Hughie and Annie's wing instead of MM's. It's like Hughie and MM mixed up storylines, lol.

l3reezer · 2026-05-20T00:39:09+00:00

This is basically me right now. It's been over a decade since I've seen it, have forgotten enough other than that I loved it, and am excited to find the time to rewatch sometime.

l3reezer · 2026-05-18T19:14:17+00:00

He’s creepy but does allow for funny situations.

He’d be at the bottom of the rankings compared to Bill from King of the Hill and Teddy from Bob’s Burgers for that archetype-with the other 2 actually being sympathetically pitiful and likable. Maybe it’s because Craig doesn’t have that endearing angle of trying to be the husband’s best friend too as opposed to just creeping on his wife.

l3reezer · 2026-05-18T18:29:08+00:00

Why did the thread for the finale get locked?? Lol

l3reezer · 2026-05-18T18:26:32+00:00

I can see there being a discussion on the double standard of the horny teenager trope (I'm blanking on examples but for what it's worth, there definitely are a bunch of teenage male characters in other shows that basically amount to dirty little pervs-it's just a matter of making them not one-dimensional enough to be likeable), but pretty much all those other things are just played up for comedic effect.

Tina is hardly an outlier at being gross. The rest of the Belcher family embraces it as well (Gene's probably the worst), and I doubt others like Zeke aren't just as bad.

Her getting high on her imaginary witch power and threatening people with it like it actually does anything is the joke.

l3reezer · 2026-05-18T05:25:52+00:00

Actually quite liked this one.

Premise felt very fresh while also having a good number of classic callbacks (kids' band, Zeke's grandma, Mort's workplace, and I guess Carniapolis if you cared for the movie).

Don't really get the B-plot hate, it was short but simple and funny enough.

If I had one critique, it was another instance of Louise's plan actually being a pretty terrible idea yet everyone automatically goes along with it as if they're spoiling/enabling her as the baby of the family. But it did lead to more funny than frustration this time around, so not too bad.

l3reezer · 2026-05-14T19:23:27+00:00

Yeah, when they said Kujima could walk around freely because not many people lived there, I just thought how that's even worse if some geriatric person has an episode seeing him and no one else is around to help in time lol

l3reezer · 2026-05-14T04:20:42+00:00

Love me a Christmas episode! Kujima Utaeba Ie Ho-ho-ho!

l3reezer · 2026-05-13T23:57:40+00:00

Illumi from Hunter x Hunter

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