The Boys Trailer Flagged For Content 20 Million Times, Probably Because Of The Octopus
By Ben F. Silverio/March 21, 2022 8:37 am EST
Deep blue sea
Everyone’s raving that the Season 3 teaser is “deeply unhinged” and asking “what the f*ck did we just watch?” pic.twitter.com/6focVp819c
— THE BOYS (@TheBoysTV) March 19, 2022
It’s currently uncertain what those content warnings could have been for. A little bathroom sex? Maybe. Some bodies bursting with buckets of blood? That’s a possibility. What about when a character breaks another’s arm by, as our own Danielle Ryan puts it, “turning his elbow into a knee?” Yeah, that’s pretty brutal. Thinly veiled MAGA substitute fascists? They get on TV easy enough as it is. It’s definitely not the beans. But all of those things pale in comparison to the octopus.
For context, disgraced hero The Deep (played by Chace Crawford) can be found in the teaser trailer having sex with someone. Mid-coitus, he looks up at a nearby fish tank and seductively eyes up the octopus that lives there. Clearly, he’s looking to take a page out of Aquaman’s playbook (according to Peacemaker) by porking the porpoise, so to speak. If his desire to insert himself into a cephalopod isn’t enough to warrant all those red flags, then maybe the image of him doing it to an octopus’ mouth when it looks like this makes up the difference.
Yeah, if I had to look at this picture in preparation for this article, then you did too, dear reader. But to cleanse your palate, here’s the red band teaser trailer in question.
