[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers through the Season 3 finale of The Boys.]Victoria Neuman’s (Claudia Doumit) taken an particularly darkish flip in The Boys Season 3. Certain, she did pop loads of heads in Season 2 and she or he’s been secretly utilizing her political energy to guard Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) and Vought, however teaming with Homelander (Antony Starr) and injecting her personal daughter (Olivia Morandin) with Compound V are going to be two mighty robust issues to come back again from.
Edgar’s all the time seemed out for Neuman ever since he adopted her, however in Season 3, she begins to doubt the worth of his safety and in addition whether or not he really seems to be at her as a daughter or simply as somebody to make use of for his personal nefarious functions. Finally, Edgar pushes too arduous in Episode 4, “Wonderful 5-Yr Plan,” by asking Neuman to do one thing extraordinarily harmful that might put her and her daughter in danger — go towards Homelander.
Neuman decides that’s the place she has to attract the road, so as a substitute of following by on Edgar’s ask, she makes use of the press convention to inform the world about Edgar’s personal corruption, ending his reign because the CEO of Vought. In return, Neuman receives a vial of Compound V that she injects into her daughter and, on prime of that, Homelander helps clear the way in which to advance Neuman’s political profession.
Throughout a latest episode of Collider Women Night time, Claudia Doumit retraced Neuman’s steps on The Boys so far, finally hitting the top of Season 3 when her daughter is modified eternally and when Lamar Bishop’s homicide places her in prime place to turn into Robert Singer’s presidential marketing campaign working mate.
That’s an entire lot of corruption and bloodshed to get what she needs, however, that is The Boys we’re speaking about right here. There are a handful of characters who’ve finished horrible issues, realized the error of their methods, and made an effort to proper their wrongs. Might Neuman be subsequent? Is there any likelihood that Season 4 will contain some type of recognition that she went too far? Right here’s Doumit’s tackle the matter:
“I feel there’s hope for Neuman. [Laughs] I’m imagining us chopping to Season 4 and she or he’s simply utterly gone darkish. Look, I’m imagining there’s hope for Neuman as a result of all through this season you undoubtedly see her wrestle with the selections that she makes. She doesn’t make them effortlessly. These are large sacrifices that may have penalties, and she or he’s totally conscious of that. She understands that, irrespective of how morally grey the choice is that she makes. So she has a superb measurement of what’s good and what’s dangerous. She’s not clueless to that. She’s not utterly misplaced. Whether or not or not she really goes by with that or has a redemption of types, I’m unsure that we are going to get that as a result of on a present like The Boys, I imply, each character’s introduction and progress is sort of like a baptism of fireside. Each character has a second the place they’re basically going by the gauntlet and I feel Neuman’s proper initially of that. She’s making some selections that may put her in some fairly darkish locations. I imply, she’s made a take care of Homelander, so I don’t suppose we’re on the way in which up. I feel we’re on the way in which down.”
In search of extra from Doumit on her journey from Scandal to Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare to The Boys? We’ve obtained that after which some in your in her full Collider Women Night time interview within the video on the prime of this text or in podcast kind under:
