Helluva Boss Season 2 Episode 8 REACTION

You react to the fan animation of Helluva Boss vs Murder Drones by MORØ Productions

Everyone in the cast is spectacular!And Brandon Rogers killed it at the end. I’ve been in his position so that really hit. 

I get the memes about this show but I think it’s unfair to imply that HB is the most immature adult comedy. It’s got more low brow sex jokes and constant swearing sure, but it also tackles more heavy topics than a lot of mainstream adult comedy. 

I'm extremely impressed with how this miscommunication/misunderstanding has been handled. I usually can't stand the misunderstanding/miscommunication trope because it can always be solved with a conversation, but...what Helluva Boss showed is single-handedly the most realistic, true-to-life, and genuinely damaging-to-a-relationship misunderstanding I've seen in a very long time. Stolas had no idea he was cast as the perverted depraved villain in Blitz's head, and Blitz had no idea he was cast as the dreamy bad boy love interest in Stolas's head. Detailed breakdown below:

Stolas and Blitz both have had very different ideas of who the other person is this whole time. We've seen in-text depictions of how each person perceives how the other person feels. For Blitz, we can see that he sees Stolas as this powerful, god-like royal being who treats him like a pet or a toy (as shown in Blitz's drug trip from "Truth Seekers"), and Stolas sees Blitz as a wounded lone wolf or lone moon drifting in space when not tethered to the Earth (Stolas) as seen in "Look My Way". Blitz and Stolas were tailoring their communications based on their flawed perceptions of the other person. Stolas was gentle and very clear and vulnerable because he thought he was in a BL slice of life drama, and Blitz shouted and yelled at the godlike royal who dared to see him as a toy because Blitz thought he was in a shonen with an overall theme of classism. It didn't click that they were fundamentally misunderstanding each other until Stolas said, "I think so highly of you. I didn't know you thought so low of me." When they're finally on a similar page, Blitz wants to apologize--he was about to until he was transported outside ("Stolas, I'm s--").

I can't imagine how hurt Stolas feels thinking back to all of the times he was so vulnerable with Blitz only to realize that Blitz saw it all as a king commanding a servant to service him. I also can't imagine how blindsided Blitz feels upon realizing that Stolas genuinely loves him and having the rug ripped out beneath him because Blitz didn't react in the correct way or because Blitz just acted according to how he understood their reality. It finally clicked for me with this crashing of genres in these characters' heads (the BL drama and the shonen classism). Stolas had no idea he was cast as the depraved villain in Blitz's head, and Blitz had no idea he was cast as the dreamy bad boy love interest in Stolas's head. I'm struck with the narrative juxtaposition all over again. I can't help but love it.

It's also been a delight to see how each reactor I watch picks up on a different story-telling technique (like what teynova's comment explains, for example). This episode is rapidly becoming my favorite Helluva Boss episode purely based on the creativity of the narrative techniques alone.

the fact we see some self-hatred from blitz in having his face scratched out in all of the photos in his and loona's apartment, to now seeing that mirrored with stolas's face covered by curtains in all the portraits they pass by during their fight -after stolas expressed his worry over being a monster in entrapping blitz in their deal. the background details in this show both impress and destroy me

I’ll never emotionally recover…

welp time to go cry