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Jack Shepherd

The Boys season 5 finale review: "Should have felt bigger, but a fitting end"

Homelander in the Oval Office in The Boys season 5.

“How about it, you lot,” Butcher says, looking at his team. “One last go?”

The miserable c**t was always blunt, but never on such a meta level. As with so many other finales, 'Blood And Bone' plays into this being the very end; every scene is loaded with knowing exposition, showrunner Erik Kripke attempting to stick the landing by calling back to the series’ beginnings, rounding off character arcs that started seven years ago, and reminding us how far – or how little – some of these Supes have come.

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