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- Jun 12, 2024
- Prime Video
- Jun 12, 2024
Summary Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg's superhero series, based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson focuses on a group of vigilantes that include Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Female (Karen Fukuhara), and Frenchie (Tomer Capon).
Created By: Eric Kripke
- Prime Video
- Jun 12, 2024
- Prime Video
- Jun 12, 2024
The Boys
Season 4
5 Seasons
Season Premiere: Jun 12, 2024
76
4.1
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Summary Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg's superhero series, based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson focuses on a group of vigilantes that include Billy Butcher (Karl Urban), Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso), Female (Karen Fukuhara), and Frenchie (Tomer Capon).
Created By: Eric Kripke
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
76
81% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
19% Mixed
4 Reviews
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 21 Critic Reviews
76
81% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
19% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Season 4 doubles down on everything fans like about the show, delivering the best chapter of the saga yet.
It felt like a show that was running out of ideas by the end of year three. One of the greatest TV surprises of 2024 is that the opposite is true. “The Boys” may finally be growing up.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 317 User Ratings
4.1
36% Positive
114 Ratings
114 Ratings
9% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
55% Negative
175 Ratings
175 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 317 User Ratings
4.1
36% Positive
114 Ratings
114 Ratings
9% Mixed
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
55% Negative
175 Ratings
175 Ratings
The Boys combines sledgehammer political commentary, thrilling and macabre action, and a cynical deconstruction of heroism. For all the underlying gloom, a gleeful irreverence is The Boys’ own superpower.
By Toby Earle
FULL REVIEW
"The Boys," quite simply, is back like it never left. The two-year wait was worth it, the cast is still giving it everything they've got, and this show refuses to let up even for a second. It's still one of TV's wildest rides, and its superpower seems to be never losing that gift.
“The Boys” grapples with a certain pressure to fulfill those expectations for the faithful. In its totality, the eight-episode season largely manages to clear that bar (or should one prefer, limbo under it), including a few explosively funny (and not incidentally, grisly) visual gags.
We mostly watch The Boys for gnarly violence and otherwise graphic material. While the show still leans too hard on that aspect—there are so many floutings of taboo that it all begins to feel curiously banal—much of its excess is guiltily appreciated. One watches the series eagerly awaiting the next gruesome thing. Such anticipation goes a considerable distance in covering up season four’s erratic plotting. There are myriad story threads tangled together, longer arcs and shorter digressions that, in their abundance, try patience.
It takes real skill to take what is essentially the same story and disguise it as a fresh idea. That gambit has served The Boys well before, but Season 4 may be the weakest so far. Jagged stakes have been softened from season after season of repetition; the series has now been completely overwhelmed by its nihilist themes.
Congrats on your final season , maybe one day the writers will learn, ah who am I kidding
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SEASON 4
It never goes to th places it went to before, lot's of boring filler, suddenly a character is **** - why not make him **** from the start? Big reveals that everyone sees coming episodes before.
And it feels like the outlandish moments are just to shock rather than plot driven. I'm 6 eps in and not really clamouring to see ho it ends.
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SEASON 4
I don't know why americans are obsessed with the whole "left vs right" fight and how politics ruined the show, because the show always had it, making fun of all kinds of people and ideologies.
The problem with this season, as it has been with the whole show is that it was made to be a 5 season show.
Every season after the 1st felt a little slower for the sake of having scenes to fill in, constant cliffhangers and character soft resets, but this season went a step further.
It still is The Boys, and so you will find entertainment value in it, but many of the characters and their story arcs feel lackluster.
-Frenchie had a complete character assassination in my opinion. His whole thing was to become a better person with the mutual help of Kimiko, considering that they have lived through similar dramas. Apparently, in this season they are quite on the bad terms for most of the time, I guess he forgot everything he's learned. And also he's **** now for no reason other then give him an "emotional" love **** uninspired
-Starlight just stands in most of the scenes, constantly depressed and tired( I guess that everything that she had to go through in previous seasons didn't teach her anything or made her a better person).
-Hughie remains the same crybaby supportive character, but when he isn't the weakest part of the show you know that the situation got bad
Only Butcher and his relation with his son and Homelander remain relevant and this story evolves quite well. Homelander himself just goes again through his season 3 arc of "trying to reject validation and love because he's superior", but it still feels interesting to watch, and Ryan adds a whole new dynamic to the situation.
I don't care to talk about the new characters, they are fine
In the end, just hindering character development for the sake of the weak plot helps nobody. It's sometimes flustrating to watch the show knowing that something bad must magically happen in order to introduce another cliffhanger for season 5 to exist. Just disappointing
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SEASON 4
Season 4 has devolved into not so subtle propaganda. The show always parodied beliefs and supporters on the political right. A few times they did ridicule the left but the ratio was certainly lopsided. However, they have now gone full lunatic left calling people who are pro-life ****, men bad..women good, white man is the cracker devil, leftist protestors good, conservative protestors stupid and bad, etc.. Vought News Network is essentially a parody of Fox News which is fine but of course there is no satire of CNN or MSNBC. At the end of one episode they even imply that BLM, Elizabeth Warren, and The Innocence Project are noble causes. Oh, you mean the mobs that took over cities across the U.S. and burned businesses and police stations, intimidated everyday citizens, and whose leaders stole all of the donations? Or how about Project Innocence where an attorney knowingly had a convicted killer set free by using sex and having another man who was already serving a life sentence take the fall for it and then defrauded taxpayers out of $8 million payout to the (not) innocent murderer who was set free.
There is plenty to mock on the left, yet The Boys chooses to ignore it and almost exclusively ridicules conservative or middle of the road positions. It is no longer funny or entertaining when it sadly has become just another indoctrination mechanism.
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SEASON 4
S4, as of episode 7, has been a constant insult to anyone who isn't a Leftist.. They're using terms like "Alt-Right" repeatedly in this 7th episode.
Season 1 & 2 had more subtle jabs at both Left and Right topics, but that waned in S3, and it's entirely one sided and heavy handed in S4.
In S4, the only characters made out to look like idiots are White characters, and the only sexuality expressed is ho-mo- sexuality. (edit: apparently that whole word gets censored)
None of this is appreciated, and it's irritating to repeatedly ignore just to follow a plot.
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SEASON 4