The Boys (Amazon) TV Show • Page 26

Excited for the finale (I'll watch it later) as it's been entertaining week to week, but I still feel meh on the season overall. I also have a few pet peeves that have dragged it down.

1. It annoys me when TV shows in general use real celebrities and politicians names in a world that's so far removed from our real world. It just feels confusing, sloppy, inconsistent. We have no trump in this world, but we have AOC? Just make your points using the in universe references you've created otherwise it's like... okay.. who from our world is in your world and why only reference them when convenient? Just takes me out of things and is lazy writing.

2. It's just not been good satire due to the lack of subtlety. I get Vought news is supposed to be fox news, but the Jewish space lasers, death attributed directly to vaccine etc. are so on the nose that it's been more cringe than funny and it's just been over the top in a way that prior seasons weren't.

Also RIP American Simon Pegg.

 

Wheres Ashleyyyyyy?

 

Thought the season had a few bumps along the way, but felt they really landed the finale. Do we know the status of S5 on if it’s been written/shot or anything yet?

 

I liked the very end a lot. Even though this season was pretty lame, it made me hype for the finale.

But once again they just make absolutely no sense with Hughie. Why the hell should he feel bad about being tricked by a literal doppleganger? There was about 20 seconds where he had somewhat of a genuine realization that he had been tricked sexually and emotionally in a way that would really scar anyone. But then the next scene he’s begging for Annie’s forgiveness and just being happy that he’s still in her good graces? What were the writers thinking this whole season

 

Waited for all the episodes to drop so I could just binge, currently on 3 and man this Frenchie stuff is so uninteresting lol

 

agreed fully

 

This season really felt like the inverse of season 3. Last season I thought they did a great job of steadily upping the stakes/tension up until the finale where it just kind of petered out (which I chalk up to them not knowing for sure when the show would end, so they didn't want to shift the status quo too much).

Here, it felt like they were just kind of spinning their wheels for most of the season until the last two episodes where everything went to 11

 

Wellp there goes Claudia

 

How did Firecracker get sick at the end? I thought she somehow got the supe virus even though Frenchie was still making it

 

She was taking medication that was giving her heart palpitations so she could breastfeed Homelander.

 

Didn’t love this season. Kind of boring. The satire was so obvious, lazy and heavy handed throughout. I liked the A Train stuff. Very much felt like they were spinning their wheels for a while, glad it’s finally ending though

 

Seems it will start filming later this year, shoot into mid-2025 and likely to not air until 2026.

Side note but man Karl Urban has got so much better with the accent:

 

Just ready for this show to be done at this point.

 

Where the hell was A Train in the finale

 

they told us where he was going in the previous episode

 

After that whole speech he gave Mothers Milk about being a coward for running?

 

no after he told ashley they need to leave town and this is her last chance and she tells him she’s staying

 

idk its complicated for both of them

Hughie new there was a shifter out there so they had to be on their toes. Yet when Annie starts acting completely out of character and goes "wanna fuck me in my Starlight outfit" his response is "yes" not "who are you and what have you done with Annie?"

I think its totally reasonable for Hughie to be embarrassed that he didn't put it all together sooner. And I think also totally understandable for Annie to react the way she did too.

 

I wouldn't have thought I'd be excited about another Boys spin off but those are two of my favourite characters so hell yeah.

 

A world war 2 Nazi is one of your favorite characters??

 

Yes cuz that’s obviously what they like about them….

 

Aya Cash is great

 

What is there to like? Lol

 

I feel like it’s almost universal that homelander is the best character in this show, and he’s essentially a nazi too. What’s redeemable about him? Lol what the hell is this reasoning