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"Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker"
The Boys episode
Episode no.Season 2
Episode 7
Directed byStefan Schwartz
Written byCraig Rosenberg
Featured music
Cinematography byDan Stolloff
Editing byJonathan Chibnall
Original release dateOctober 2, 2020 (2020-10-02)
Running time54 minutes
Guest appearances
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"Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" is the seventh episode of the second season and fifteenth episode overall of the American superhero television series The Boys, based on the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis. It is set in a universe where most "Supes" (superpowered individuals) are portrayed as corrupt individuals instead of the heroes the general public believes they are. The episode was written by Craig Rosenberg and directed by Stefan Schwartz.

The episode follows the Boys becoming allies with congresswoman Victoria Newman for an upcoming hearing against Vought with Lamplighter as the chief witness. However, the plans are twarted when Hughie Campell and Lamplighter decide to rescue Annie January from Vought after Homelander and Stormfront uncover her betrayal. Meanwhile, Billy Butcher is forced to face his past when his father unexpectedly shows up while seeking another witness as a contingency plan finding Jonah Vogelbaum as the perfect witness.

"Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" was released on the streaming service Amazon Prime Video on October 2, 2020. The episode received critical acclaim from critics with praise for the cinematography, direction, writing, themes, perfomances, the hearing massacre sequence, for retaking the ''Head Popper" storyline, and the set-up for the season finale.

Plot

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Production

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Development

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In July 2019, it was announced that the second season of The Boys was already in development during the San Diego Comic-Con a week before the series premiered.[1][2] The series showrunner and head writer Eric Kripke was already writing on the scripts for the season, having started to work on them during the 2018 United States elections in order to capture the topics and themes that it would be explored for the season accurately, which would be the white nationalism, white supremacy, systemic racism, and xenophobia.[3] On June 2020, it was announced that the episodes for the second season would be released in a weekly basis instead of dropping all of them in one day in order to make people discuss about the topics for a longer time.[4][5] The episode titled "Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" was written by Craig Rosenberg and directed by Stefan Schwartz.[6] The episode is titled with the third spin-off of the comic book series of the same name as well as the Vol. 10 of the comic book series of the same name.[7][8]

Writing

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Lamplighter's fate was changed and toned down for the television adaptation in contrast of the dark one from his comic counterpart. In the comics Lamplighter is killed at the hands of Mallory, only to be revived by Homelander and imprisoning him for his failure at capturing the Boys. However, as a consequence of being revived with Compound-V, he ends up returning with severe brain damage that causes him to become more a zombified version of his former self.[9] While Kripke admitted that the character's suicide was planned for his arc in the series, he later come to regret killing the character too soon due to Ashmore's perfomance expressing that if he "could go back and do it again, knowing that he had Shawn and what he did with that character, he would have kept him alive for longer."[10]

The episode also includes the opening montage of a man being brainwashed by Stormfront's propaganda where he start to accept and follow her ideas which ends on a tragedy. The montage serves as an analogy of Donald Trump's propaganda to show how it is used to to brainwash the followers with supremacist idead and inspire fear towards them. It serves as a critic to show how the propaganda can transform ordinary people into domestic terrorists targeting the minorities due to the ideas of hate against that are implanted thanks to the propaganda.[11]

Casting

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The episode main cast includes Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell, Antony Starr as John Gillman / Homelander, Erin Moriarty as Annie January / Starlight, Dominique McElligott as Maggie Shaw / Queen Maeve, Jessie T. Usher as Reggie Franklin / A-Train, Laz Alonso as Marvin T. Milk / Mother's Milk (M.M.), Chace Crawford as Kevin Moskowitz / The Deep, Tomer Capone as Serge / Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female, Nathan Mitchell as Earving / Black Noir, Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett, and Aya Cash as Klara Risinger / Stormfront.[12] Also starting are John Noble as Sam Butcher, Lesley Nicol as Connie Butcher, Shantel VanSanten as Becca Butcher, Shawn Ashmore as Lamplighter, Ann Cusack as Donna January, Claudia Doumit as Victoria Neuman, Langston Kerman as Eagle the Archer, Jessica Hecht as Carol Mannheim, Katy Breier as Cassandra Schwartz, Cameron Crovetti as Ryan Butcher, Nicola Correia-Damude as Elena, Charley Koontz as Tommy Peterson, Laila Robins as Grace Mallory, John Doman as Jonah Vogelbaum, and Goran Visnjic as Alastair Adana.[13]: 52:54–53:27 

Filming

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The filming for the second season took place at the city of Toronto, while using several locations across the city in order to seek to capture the New York City where the series took place.[14] The scenes for Homelander and Stormfront speech at the scene in Roy Thomson Hall at Toronto where it also re-creates the Seven Tower with CGI. The Jitter Bean coffee it also used for the scene where Butcher shares a farewell with his mother at the city of Moncton, New Brunswick. The crew also flmed other scenes like the rally of the citizens of the Seven at the Pecaut Square, and the King Street West at the city of Ontario where Hughie and Lamplighter infilitrate the Seven Tower, while the residences of Grace Mallory and Jonah Vogelbaum respectively where fimed at Fallsview residence and the Parkwood Estate.[15][16]

Visual effects

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Visual effects for the episode were created by ILM, Rising Sun Pictures, Rocket Science VFX, Rodeo FX, Ollin VFX, Soho VFX, Rhythm & Hues, Method Studios, and Studio 8.[17] It was confirmed that the visual effects supervisor Stephan Fleet would be returning to oversee the development of the visual effects.[18][13]: 54:02–54:05 

Music

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The episode features the following songs which are "What A Wonderful World" by Jon Batiste, "That's the Way (I Like It)" by KC and the Sunshine Band, and "Never Truly Vanish" by Erin Moriarty.[19] It was confirmed that the visual effects supervisor Stephan Fleet would be returning to oversee the development of the visual effects.[20]

Release

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"Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" premiered on Prime Video in the United States on October 2, 2020.[21] The episode, along with the rest of The Boys' second season, was released on Blu-ray on May 31, 2022.[22]

Reception

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"Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker" received critical acclaim from critics. For his review at IGN, David Griffin rated the episode with a score of 8 out of 10 by praising the episode focus on the father and son relationships of the characters as well as the serious tone of the episode. He also praised the heartwarming scene between Frenchie and Kimiko as another of the episode's highlight stating that "as the two share a tender moment where she finally teaches him how to properly communicate with her. Sure, he only learns the word gun, and while that's probably not what you would consider a typical first-date scenario, this is The Boys after all."[23] Nich Schager from Entertainment Weekly, praised the episode for its portrayal of white supremacism and fascist ideologies through Stromfront, highlighting the opening scene over how a man is brainwashed with those radical ideologies through the news and social media thus representing a real life issue over how the spread of ideas can actually make a regular citizen to violent actions towards what they believe to be terrorists.[24] For the review at Collider, Liz Shannon Miller praised the episode for its opening scene that represents how social media can make people radicalized into different ideas and commit violent crimes to innocent people representing an ongoing issue that is still happening in real life, partiularly towards the minorities.[25]

Notes

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References

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  1. ^ Petski, Denise (July 19, 2019). "The Boys Renewed for Season 2 By Amazon; Aya Cash Closes Deal as Stormfront". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  2. ^ Otterson, Joe (2019-07-19). "'The Boys' Lands Early Season 2 Renewal at Amazon". Variety. Retrieved 2023-12-15.
  3. ^ "INTERVIEW: Eric Kripke spills details on THE BOYS season two!". The Beat. August 17, 2020. Retrieved April 22, 2022.
  4. ^ Miller, Liz Shannon (2020-06-26). "The Boys Season 2 Release Date Announced, Will Go Weekly". Collider. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  5. ^ "The Boys boss wanted to avoid "sugar rush of a binge" with season 2's weekly release schedule". Digital Spy. 2020-09-10. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  6. ^ "The Boys (2019-2023)". Writers Guild of America West. Archived from the original on July 28, 2019. Retrieved June 28, 2023.
  7. ^ "BOYS TP VOL 10 BUTCHER BAKER (MR)". Previews World. Retrieved 2024-06-22.
  8. ^ "The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker". Comic Vine. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  9. ^ McGuire, Liam (2020-10-05). "The Boys: How Lamplighter Was Resurrected In The Comics". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on August 10, 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-09.
  10. ^ Gillespie, Daniel (2020-10-03). "The Boys' Showrunner Now Regrets Killing [SPOILER] So Soon". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  11. ^ Helm, Tony (2020-10-02). "The Boys: Season 2 Episode 7 'Butcher, Baker and the Candlestick Maker' Recap & Review". FilmSpeak. Retrieved 2024-09-02.
  12. ^ Elvy, Craig (2020-08-30). "The Boys: Season 2 New & Returning Cast Guide". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  13. ^ a b Rosenberg, Craig (October 2, 2020). "The Bloody Doors Off". The Boys. Season 2. Episode 7. Amazon Prime Video. End credits begin at 52:29.
  14. ^ Scarnato, Ryden Scarnato (2019-10-17). "New Superhero For The Seven Spotted In 'The Boys' Season 2 Set Photos". Heroic Hollywood. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  15. ^ "Where was The Boys Filmed? Guide to ALL the Filming Locations". Atlas of Wonders. Retrieved 2023-07-01.
  16. ^ Life, Toronto (2020-10-14). "Every Toronto location that shows up in the second season of Amazon's The Boys". Toronto Life. Retrieved 2024-01-07.
  17. ^ Frei, Vincent (August 5, 2020). "THE BOYS – Season 2". Art of VFX. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
  18. ^ Frei, Vincent (2019-11-04). "The Boys – Season 2: Stephan Fleet – Overall VFX Supervisor – Amazon Studios". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  19. ^ Milner, Sarah Bea (2020-09-05). "The Boys Soundtrack: Every Song In Season 2". ScreenRant. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  20. ^ Frei, Vincent (2019-11-04). "The Boys – Season 2: Stephan Fleet – Overall VFX Supervisor – Amazon Studios". The Art of VFX. Retrieved 2023-12-30.
  21. ^ Fullerton, Huw. "The Boys Amazon season 2 release schedule: When are new episodes released?". Radio Times. Retrieved 2024-01-02.
  22. ^ Zogbi, Emily (2022-04-05). "The Boys Seasons 1 and 2 Get Blu-ray Release With Deleted and Extended Scenes". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved 2023-12-31.
  23. ^ Griffin, David (2020-10-02). "The Boys: Season 2, Episode 7 'Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker' Review". IGN. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  24. ^ Schager, Nick (October 2, 2020). "'The Boys' recap: Dads say the darndest things". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
  25. ^ Miller, Liz Shannon (2020-10-02). "The Boys Season 2, Episode 7 Recap: Heads Explode (Again)". Collider. Retrieved 2024-11-16.
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