If the final season of Prime Video‘s The Boys hadn’t been written before the 2024 election, you might think the new episodes were a bit too on the nose.
There are federal troops being sent into American cities, undesirables being rounded up and sent to “freedom camps,” White House press briefings that devolve into jeering gaslighting sessions. And leading the country is a megalomaniac — Anthony Starr’s always riveting Homelander — who might be going insane.
The acclaimed gross-out superhero show launches its fifth season on Wednesday with eight episodes that dive right into the drama’s final arc as a group of anti-supe crusaders (led by Karl Urban’s Butcher and Erin Moriarty’s Starlight) try to find a way to stop Homelander and his gang (including Chace Crawford’s The Deep, who’s now a podcast bro advocating incel tropes) from ruining the country. While the show has always
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