Here are some spoilers for those who haven’t heard yet The young over a Amazon Prime subscriptionso be warned!
While The young Season 4 has obviously had its share of shocking moments, from The salaciousness of a super-clone centipede to the same Clone nude fight sceneit also delivers some really emotional arcs with Frenchie and Hughie. (I don’t know if I want to call it The story of Firecracker and Starlight (Not emotional yet.) For Jack Quaid’s protagonist, it’s all about his dear old dad, whose comatose state has left Hughie shaken. But Simon Pegg seems to be preparing his fans for that, and has used a particularly apt song to drop his hint.
As viewers know, episode four ended in a somewhat mysterious way, as Hughie’s mother appeared to have put his vial of Compound V into Hughie’s IV, even though the decision had just been made not to further endanger his already doomed life. (I don’t really understand how Daphne knew he had it, or how she knew exactly what it was.) Something extreme was definitely happening to his body, and if Pegg’s Instagram If you believe the stories posted, the character will come back in a big and loud way.
While there is of course no audio for this still, it’s important to note that Simon Pegg used the Rage Against the Machine song “Wake Up” to accompany this rather somber shot of the incapacitated Hughie Sr. And not just a few lines from the verses or even one of the choruses. Rather, he used the section later in the song when the musicians jam while singer Zack de la Rocha repeatedly screams “Wake up!”
If we’re just looking at the song based on the superficial interpretation of its title, then it’s fitting, as Hughie and the audience all agree that Pegg’s character is waking up from a coma. That definitely started before the episode moved on to its final Homelander moment, but the question here is, which version of Hughie Sr. will wake up?
Because this is The younga show where the characters can’t really be happy very often, it’s not a stretch to assume that we’ll have to dig a little deeper into the use of “Wake Up” to figure out what’s going on.
Rage Against the Machine is one of the most politically motivated bands on the planet, and has never shied away from that approach. But listeners haven’t always been so quick to look beyond Tom Morello’s snappy hooks and de la Rocha’s militantly catchy vocals, and can miss the band’s real message entirely. Which, as those who caught the review bombing of Season 4 will agree, is a little like The young‘ own audience.
So in this case, I imagine we need to look beyond the simplest meaning of “wake up” and consider the deeper meaning of opening one’s eyes to what should be obvious. That would probably apply to Hughie here, since he foolishly thought he could add fuel to the fire and come away with more than ashes and regret. If Supes are to blame for everything that goes wrong in his life, as he put it on A-Train, then why would his first instinct to help his father be to use the very substance that sets them apart? He’s desperate, of course, but he should have known from the start that bringing this world directly into his father’s bloodstream was a stupid idea.
And while I realize Hughie isn’t the person who ultimately injected the Compound V into the IV, he opened the door for it to happen by having it in the first place. He probably should have kept it in his pants pocket instead of a jacket.
So, for now, all I can hope is that Simon Pegg’s video should be taken at face value and that “Wake Up” is a completely harmless premonition with no underlying terror. Not a single one.
New episodes of The young Airs Thursdays on Prime Video. While you wait, check out what Eric Kripke told us about Starlight is part of the creation story of Firecrackerand visit our TV schedule 2024 to see what other big shows are on the way.
