Amazon Studios' The Boys, much like the comic book source material, pushes the limit in almost every regard. However, there's one sequence Amazon thought pushed things just a little too far.
During a Reddit AMA session, The Boys co-creator Eric Kripke revealed a particularly explicit scene involving Homelander that caused the studio to put its foot down.
"There was ONE SCENE that Amazon said FUCK NO, you have to cut," he wrote. "I couldn't quite understand why considering everything else we have in the show, but: Homelander, after being dressed down by Stilwell in episode 2, was standing on one of the Chrysler building Eagles. He pulled his pants down and started jerking off, mumbling 'I can do whatever I want' over and over again until he climaxed all over New York City. We shot it! Oh my God, Anthony was the BEST in that scene. Amazon seemed to think it wasn't necessary. I thought it told me something about his psyche. To be clear, they've been great, that may have been the ONLY fight I lost in Season 1."
While it's hard to say whether that scene would have improved Homelander's overall character arc, there's no denying that Kripke certainly knows how to paint a picture.
The Boys is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video. The series stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as the Female, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander and Simon Pegg as Hughie's dad.