Karl Urban’s impressive performance prompted last-minute changes in The Boys Season 4 finale. Just give Karl Urban the Emmy.
The Boys’ creator, Eric Kripke, is attempting to express two things. The first is that no one should have excessive power. The second is that it is critical to remain human while fighting monsters.
And, as a major Star Wars fan, the showrunner of The Boys is certainly not oblivious to the “Luke, I am your father” theme – how else to explain why the entire season concentrated around problems between parents and children?
The fourth season of The Boys is still high-quality TV, and yet it loses some of its former self. The charismatic Butcher, although justified by the plot, was relegated to the sidelines, occasionally appearing on screen mostly to cough and faint.
One Butcher Scene Impressed Eric Kripke More Than Others
In the finale, however, the character proved himself, and it was one of the final scenes with Butcher that Kripke liked so much that it was eventually changed at the last minute.
We are talking about the scene of Butcher’s conversation with Hughie, in which the former remembers a place he heard about when he was a kid – a steakhouse in Nevada. As they say goodbye, he asks Hughie to go there for him and his younger brother Lenny, who committed suicide before the events of Season 1.
Kripke wrote on his X account:
“So this Butcher scene KILLED me. Originally, we planned to cut back & forth between him & Hughie. But @KarlUrban was so heartbreakingly great, we just held on him. He’s delivering top shelf, Emmy winning work here consistently.”
Butcher’s arc in the fourth season, while fading into the background, was one of the most heartbreaking. The hallucinations of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character plainly demonstrated Butcher’s deteriorating consciousness, but the point of this character was to demonstrate that even in the most difficult circumstances, Butcher is capable of more than others.
Karl Urban has yet to win an Emmy for his work in The Boys. So, maybe now is the moment to finally give him one.
