The Boys’ crew recently celebrated the near-completion of the fifth and final season’s production, and less than a week later, fans are now already able to check out the first full-length trailer. And what a trailer it is, with ample time devoted to the seemingly endless number of largely amoral and deplorable characters that have been introduced. Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher and Antony Starr’s Homelander get the most attention, of course, given their inevitable grand-scale faceoff has been years in the making.
I can’t wait to see those two unstoppable forces slamming against each other, now that Butcher has left his deathbed behind, giving Urban more to do this season. However, I’m in zero hurry to catch back up with Chace Crawford’s The Deep, whose character arc started off with sexual assault, and then somehow didn’t get less skeezy or misogynistic across the next 31 episodes. It’s a sordid pleasure to see what awfulness he gets embedded in, but his five seconds of new-trailer screentime already makes me want to hit fast-forward.
