The Boys has always pushed the boundaries of what sort of outrageous acts can be depicted on-screen, and we have seen all manner of brutality and debauchery over the course of three seasons.
Showrunner Eric Kripke has previously said that he was basically given free rein to include anything he wanted in the show, but there was one thing that gave Amazon pause - and it probably won't be what you're expecting.
Of all the things we've witnessed over the past few years, it was The Deep's interspecies relationship with an octopus in season 3's "Herogasm" episode that prompted Prime Video execs to ask Kripke to tone down as it tested the streamer's policy on depictions of bestiality.
"Funny enough, the only thing they said to me all season was - and we weren't going to do it anyway - was 'Can you just, maybe, not have The Deep f*cking an octopus in so many scenes?'" Kripke tells The Movie Dweeb. "Because bestiality is a real tricky line for standards. They said, 'We're not saying you can't do it. We're just saying, can you be a little more elegant in how you depict it?'"
So, no more octo-p*ssy (sorry) - but Kripke does also reveal that fans have yet to see this season's "craziest" moment.
"It's a moment that I genuinely couldn't believe we did," he said. "I think you might come out of it with a thousand-yard stare, you'll just have to see it."
We think we know what Kripke is referring to here, and... yeah. Your eyes may want to have a shower afterward.
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"The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power," reads the official season 4 synopsis. "Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late."
Returning cast members include Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, and Cameron Crovetti, along with new recruits Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
The first three episodes of The Boys season 4 will be available to stream from June 13th, with new instalments dropping weekly through to the season finale on July 18.