A powerful dumbass, driven by rage and insecurity, is holding his gun on the world.
But hey at least The Boys is still sort of fictional as it begins its fifth and final season. It’s been a year or so since the events of Season 4, and it’s a fascist Homelander’s America for all who live in it, at least until he lazer-eyes to death every last citizen. With most of The Boys detained, a powered-back-up Annie January (Erin Moriarty) leading a losing resistance movement as Starlight, and Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) still a threat but also sick somewhere, Homelander (Antony Starr) is free to gloat. When he appears before a sea of red hats at CPAC – cough – a Vought International shareholders’ meeting, it’s to raucous cheers and blind adulation. These people are sheep for their supe god daddy.
President Steven Calhoun (David Andrews) is an executive only
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