The Boys Series Finale Is What The Boys Fans Deserve - The Boys Season 5 Review (Episode 8)

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]In the previous episode of The Boys, Sage, the smartest woman on Earth who is notorious for having various backup plans, decides to do nothing except eat, piss her pants, and abotmomize herself.

[00:00:11]Kind of a stunning self-reflection on the people who are still fans of this show. Am I right, Kryky? Annie repeats a character arc she already went on three episodes earlier, while MM talks about jerking off pigeons. Huie learns that the man who constantly betrays the boys might betray the boys at some point. and one of the main characters died and I felt absolutely nothing towards it. Now come with me and watch the worst train crash since season 8 of Game of Thrones.

[00:00:37]Yes, this is worse than Stranger Things season 5 and Game of Thrones season 8.

[00:00:42]It is [ __ ] horrendous. We open on Frenchie being buried and keeping up with the somber tone that's been established. We then hear how Frenchie kept looking at everyone's [ __ ] Yep, that's the direction they went for for this. [ __ ] Mesma got beaten to death in a toilet and his death has given more seriousness than a main character of the [ __ ] show. Also, I just find it funny that Sage has been trying to get everyone killed for two seasons and she's just allowed to be at the funeral. She's just chilling in the background like a [ __ ] scarecrow.

[00:01:11]Homelander finds Ryan in a cabin and you're wondering how did Homelander find him when Ryan's been shown to be able to stay under the radar for over a year by himself. He just did. He just found him.

[00:01:23]That's it. Terrific. Homelander invites Ryan to live with him again. And in the first scene in about three seasons, Ryan has a good scene, telling Homelander how miserable he was even before calling himself a god and telling him to get [ __ ] Annie is asking Marie to take the civilian she rescued and protect them. And Emma finally returns to the show. I bet Homelander has a weird dick.

[00:01:44]>> Thanks, Emma. I almost forgot why your spin-off show got cancelled. So, yeah, Annie just tells Black Jesus to [ __ ] off to Canada, and they just do. And that's it. They never appear again.

[00:01:56]>> Oh my dude, you just got pranked. Bet you didn't see that one coming, huh?

[00:02:01]>> Ashley is pissed because Voldemort won't tell her if O father is turning on Homelander. And Sage insults Frenchie to Kimiko's face, which allows her to get angry and activate her radiation beam, stripping Sage of her powers and giving her the same IQ as the people who have been defending this show for the past 4 years. They have a meeting where Sage is once again just stuffing her fat face.

[00:02:22]Like, come on. Literally every episode she's appeared in, she's [ __ ] eating.

[00:02:27]This is ridiculous. And the group decide to break into the White House using the info MM kept when protecting the White House from last year to sneak in. How does MM still have all those blueprints when he was captured for a year and had all of his [ __ ] taken off him? He just does. What did you expect a writer on $700 an hour to put in some effort? This scene is of course ruined by Sage who wants to go see Harry Potter world and that's it. That's the last time we see Sage. Three seasons of her plotting and scheming to kill the entire planet for no reason. And then over the course of one episode, she has an entire redemption arc and everyone is just fine with her getting away with all the crime she did. That's that's not me being hyperbolic. I'm not just summing things up in a in a neat little way. That is genuinely what happened in this show.

[00:03:12]>> I don't want to live on this planet anymore. Oh, father warns Homelander he needs to get people on his side to get them to build the church. And then Homelander tells Deep he's [ __ ] worthless in every way possible before going to prepare for his broadcast. The boys gear up to take on Homelander using their most effective weapons, handguns and a crowbar. Do you want to take some of that gas that knocks them out instantly or anything like that? No, just just two handguns and a crowbar.

[00:03:38]All right, then. Homelander is giving his speech as the boys infiltrate the secret tunnels. And for some reason in the middle of the speech, we get this quip from Huey.

[00:03:46]>> Oh, yep. Smells exactly how I thought a secret [ __ ] tunnel would smell.

[00:03:50]>> Huie, shut the [ __ ] up. Turns out that surprise, surprise, there's new traps in the tunnels. Almost like there's a paranoid [ __ ] in charge of it who had access to the smartest person on the planet. You guys probably should have asked her if there's any new traps before letting her [ __ ] off to eat every single buffet in Florida. The boys decide the best thing to do against the automatic turret shooting at them from the roof is to shoot them instead of using their super strength or light beams to destroy them. Ashley decides to run into the tunnels and get them out.

[00:04:21]And Voldemort starts talking to her again. So that's that character act sorted. I guess just 2 minutes scene and it's all wrapped up. In case you didn't realize, they're just going to [ __ ] shoehorn in every single character arc in this episode by the way. It's [ __ ] abysmal. They find Deep and Annie decides to fly around the [ __ ] world with him instead of just flying him to the edge of the city and releasing him.

[00:04:41]Like, come on. He talks to Fish. It's not like he's going to fly back in time.

[00:04:45]Stop wasting your time doing this, you absolute [ __ ] Mongaloid. Oh, Father arrives and pushes them back and then Huie stops him by shooting a fire alarm.

[00:04:54]Why doesn't O Father just shout at them again so they can't go anywhere when he can't see them? Well, we need to wrap this up, guys, so no one can use their [ __ ] brain. Huie and MM lead him away while Butcher and Kimiko make their way to Homelander. And O Father is killed when MM uses one of his ball gags on him, which blows up his head. Please bear in mind, MM didn't fasten the ball gag around his head or anything. He just placed it in front of his mouth, confirming that MM is a soup. Seriously, he got shot in the back and then had no problems whatsoever. And now he's so strong he can hold a ball gag in front of a weapon that can fling entire groups of people onto the floor. It's also nice to see Eric Krypkkey take notes from one of the worst Marvel movies of all time.

[00:05:32]I can really see how your show maintained its quality. Homelander snaps. I know, shocking. This has never happened before. Telling the audience that he will kill everyone who doesn't believe in him and then butchering Kimiko show up despite being aware that Kimo might have the radiation beam.

[00:05:47]Homelander doesn't bother to try and sneak attack her with his lasers like he did in episode 1 because that would make too much sense. So instead, they just have a big brawl in the Oval Office.

[00:05:57]Is this a joke?

[00:05:59]>> Annie shoots deep into the ocean where all of his fish friends kill him. And let me just say this makes no sense. The fish friends killing him. That makes sense. But the reason why they do it doesn't. It's being built up throughout this whole season that they hate him because of what happened with the oil pipeline. And then when they finally start to kill him, they just randomly start talking about the octopus he killed in the last season. Like, what the [ __ ] Why would you build up an entire season, like an entire season's worth of reasons for why these fish hate him and then they just completely forget about it and they just randomly know something that happened in the last season, which they shouldn't know, by the way. This [ __ ] dog [ __ ] show, man. Jesus. After more scenes of the power scaling making no sense, and Kimiko just standing there, Ryan decides to come along and he and Butcher beat the [ __ ] out of Homelander. Kimiko can't use her beam properly, but then an Israeli war criminal reminds her that love is really cool, allowing her to use the beam properly and hitting all three of them. Ryan is knocked out and Butcher and Homelander are now powerless. And Butcher then proceeds to beat the [ __ ] out of him and then kill him. Yep, that's right. We have a 3-minute fight and then Homelander is defeated after saying he'll suck Butcher's dick. That's it. That's the last we get from Homelander.

[00:07:11]Everyone reports on what happened.

[00:07:13]Ashley is impeached and Ryan tells Butcher that he still doesn't like him before [ __ ] off. Terra is just dead now. We get no foreshadowing of this in the episode, by the way. He just dies offcreen because old age, I guess. Stan Edgar somehow becomes CEO of Vault again. I mean, I think Vault would have been burnt to the [ __ ] ground after all the [ __ ] it did, but hey, I guess not. And Butcher takes the virus and intends on releasing it. Why does he do this? It happened in the comics and Homelander was underwhelming, so they just needed the pad of run time out a bit. No, seriously. I mean, this makes no sense. If they had just continued on from season 4 and just kept that butcher in this season, yeah, fair enough. But they didn't. They just made him an anti-hero again. So, now he decides to just say, "Fuck it. I'm going to kill everyone for no reason." Huie figures out what happened and then Huie somehow knows that Butcher is going to go to Vault Tower. Why Vault Tower, you might ask? You see, Butcher is going to put it in the sprinkler system and then he'll activate it when the soups come back to Vault Tower where it'll then go worldwide. Personally, if the virus can go worldwide and affect everywhere, I would have just released it into the air and left it at that. But whatever, this is some good drama, right? Good use of a few million dollars on TV. Huie gives Butcher another one of his gay little speeches about hope, but once again, it just doesn't [ __ ] work. Who could have seen that coming? The two beat the [ __ ] out of each other, and then Huie shoots him. Butcher praises him for being completely [ __ ] useless throughout their entire time together and then he dies.

[00:08:46]They hold a funeral for him and then Kimiko says bye and then leaves.

[00:08:51]Seriously, she just [ __ ] off and nobody cares. Mm decides to adopt Ryan and marries Manique again. Kimiko gets a dog and goes off to France. And Huey and Annie are running an electronic shop and she is now pregnant and doing crime fighting. And then the show ends. I'm being serious. That's just how it ends.

[00:09:09]Huie just looks at a pregnant Starlight go off to fight crime and that's it.

[00:09:14]That's that's that's how it ends.

[00:09:18]So yeah, that was the end of The Boy season 5. And let me just say that was so [ __ ] awful. Everything is just rushed. The fight against Homelander, it lasts like five minutes and then he dies. O father gets killed off with basically no setup. Butcher has spent the whole season just ignoring the end of season 4 and then he just decides he wants to be that butcher again and the boys just go their separate ways and they barely even say goodbye to each other. Even as I'm finishing this review and editing, I'm seeing so many people complaining about how bad that was and I'm like, "Yeah, have you not seen the past six seasons worth of content?" As an overall season, season 5 of The Boys felt like three different shows smashed together. It wanted to have the tone scene in the marketing, showing an all-out war occurring because of Homelander's actions. It also wanted to be a season that sets up the Soulja Boy show, and then it wanted to be the same show it's been for the past 5 years, and all of it is just smashed together, and it's made an incoherent mess that feels like a complete waste of time. Am I disappointed? No. I already saw how [ __ ] this was going to be a year ago. But to everyone who's been in my comment section saying how the show isn't that bad and the show is still going to end on a good note, >> vindication.

[00:10:35]I guess the final thing to ask yourself is, is the ending to this show worse than Game of Thrones and Stranger Things? And the answer to that, I would say, is yes. When Game of Thrones and Stranger Things came to their ends, the people behind them were very blatant that they were just trying to wrap things up. They weren't going to try and sugarcoat things for you. They just wanted to move on. So, this is the season you're getting and then they're leaving. That's that. And, you know, I kind of have respect for that. Just coming out and saying, "We really can't be [ __ ] anymore. This is just what we've rushed out and you can judge us if you want, but we're just leaving."

[00:11:11]That's kind of, you know, admirable a little bit. Obviously, it's still scummy as [ __ ] but at least they're being truthful about it. Season five of The Boys had no intention of being this bad.

[00:11:20]You can tell by how Krypkkey talks about it. Krypkkey generally thought that this was going to be an amazing piece of TV.

[00:11:27]He has spent the past few weeks defending each and every criticism that the show's been getting, and he's been trying to hype up the spin-offs to show, look, we're still here. We're still putting the effort in. But no effort has been put into here. This is just politics with a bit of superhero show on it. This has just been several seasons of one man whining because someone he doesn't like got into the White House and then he made an entire show about that and then forgot to do everything else a TV show is supposed to do like have good plot lines and character arcs and themes. So, uh yeah, that's that's the boys. You know, I I kind of don't even know how to finish this off. I mean, like I said, I was expecting this, so I'm not really angry or disappointed in it because I got exactly what I was expecting. So, yeah, this is just the end of the video and the end of my review on The Boy season 5.

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