The Boys debuted its entire first season last year on July 26, with all eight episodes hitting the streaming service at once. For Season 2, the series will drop the first three episodes on September 4, and then release the remaining episodes weekly until the season finale on October 9.
The new season “finds The Boys on the run from the law, hunted by the Supes, and desperately trying to regroup and fight back against Vought,” per the official synopsis. “In hiding, Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capon) and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) try to adjust to a new normal, with Butcher (Karl Urban) nowhere to be found.”
As far as the superheroes are concerned, “Starlight (Erin Moriarty) must navigate her place in The Seven as Homelander (Antony Starr) sets his sights on taking complete control. His power is threatened with the addition of Stormfront (Aya Cash), a social media-savvy new Supe, who has an agenda of her own. On top of that, the Supervillain threat takes center stage and makes waves as Vought seeks to capitalize on the nation’s paranoia.”
For those in need of a refresher, The Boys is an adaptation of comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. The series by Eric Kripke primarily focuses on two groups: the Seven, a group of superheroes who outside of their heroic personas are mostly arrogant, corrupt and abuse their status and power, and the titular Boys, vigilantes looking to keep the corrupted heroes under control. The Boys make it their mission to expose truth about The Seven and Vought, the multi-billion dollar conglomerate that manages, markets and monetizes the superheroes.
The Seven are led by the egotistical and unstable Homelander while the Boys are led by Billy Butcher, who despises all superpowered people.