After five years of wild herogasms, love sausages, eating live octopuses (RIP to a real one Timothy), and more torn-off limbs than you can shake a super-powered fist at, hit Amazon Prime Video series The Boys still maintains its power to shock. Returning for a new season, numerous scenes will once again leave your jaw on the floor, even if on the whole the show is starting to lose its biting edge. Thankfully though, it’s far from being bloody diabolical.
Now in its fourth season, you fully know the drill – it’s Butcher (Karl Urban) vs. Homelander (Antony Starr), the Boys vs. the corrupt Supes, with plenty of blood and guts spilled along the way. The world is on fire and our beloved group of misfits need to overcome their issues to come together to save it. Of course, some spanners are thrown into the works – Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) is edging ever closer to the Oval Office, Billy only has months to live, and the battle for Ryan’s (Cameron Crovetti) soul has never been more intense as he becomes further exposed to Homelander’s corrupting influence. Still, the basics are the same as ever, as showrunner Eric Kripke clearly abides by the rule, ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”.
