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Jeffrey Dean Morgan and ‘The Boys’ Creator on That Kessler-Butcher Twist: ‘We Didn’t Want to Save It for the End’
This week's episode of "The Boys" revealed a major twist about Butcher and Kessler's friendship amid Butcher's ongoing brain tumor struggle.
If you were among “The Boys” fans who guessed that CIA agent Joe Kessler ( Jeffrey Dean Morgan) was a figment of Butcher’s ( Karl Urban) V-induced-brain-tumor’s imagination, give yourself a round of applause and a frothy glass of milk as your prize after Thursday’s Episode 6 reveal. “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke and his writers’ room decided to handle the I-See-Dead-People twist a little differently than the trope has often been employed in media: Kessler’s part in Season 4 becomes even more important now that you know he’s Butcher’s Tyler Durden leading into the finale in just two more episodes. “Because now Kessler has this new role to be literally the devil on his shoulder, and really be twisting the knife and saying really cruel things to Butcher that all happen to be totally true — which is always great when your villain can be a real truth-teller.”
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