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We’re racing toward the series finale of The Boys at this point, with just three episodes left in the fifth and final season of Prime Video’s big superhero series. Overall, it’s been a pretty good season, even if I have a few bones to pick with some of the choices the creative team has made.
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With just three episodes to go, Homelander (Antony Starr) and his crew of nefarious supes, now with the full backing of both Vought and the US government, are facing off against Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the rest of The Boys one last time.
Read on to find out everything you need to know about The Boys Season 5, Episode 6 plus the full season release schedule and more.
New episodes of The Boys release on Wednesdays on Amazon Prime Video at midnight Pacific Time. This is a global release, so Episode 5 will drop at the same time in every region Prime Video is available. Here’s what that translates to in your timezone:
The sixth episode clocks in at 1 hour and 1 minute, the shortest since Episode 2. The rest of Season 5’s episodes all clock in just above one hour, though we don’t know how long the Season 5 finale will be. Here’s the release schedule:
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Read a full recap of Episodes 1 & 2 right here.
One year has passed since the events of Season 4 and Homelander has solidified his hold over both Vought and the nation. A puppet president is in place. Butcher is on the run while MM (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Hughie (Jack Quaid) are all detainees in a Vought-run “Freedom Camp” for Starlighter sympathizers and other political prisoners. After Starlight releases the Flight 37 video showing Homelander’s true nature, he vows revenge and has Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) leak that the Boys will be executed in three days. Butcher finds Starlight and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and they make an escape plan that goes very badly until A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) shows up and finally does something truly heroic, paying the ultimate price to save the team.
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The Boys escape and move on to the testing stage of Butcher’s plan to release the supe-killing supervirus (I think we should call it V-None), which involves breaking into a mansion that houses supe influencers and testing it out on them. Only, Homelander unfreezes his dad, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), and sends him after Butcher, withholding information about the super-virus. Things get crazy and two of the influencer supes are infected with the virus and die. Soldier Boy is also infected, but while everyone from Butcher and Starlight to Homelander himself thinks that Soldier Boy is dead, he’s revealed to be very much alive in the end.
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Read a full recap of Episode 3 right here.
Instead of going rogue, Soldier Boy returns to The Seven where he’s proclaimed a hero whose reputation was smeared by the “lamestream media” and who was framed by Starlight. The Boys head to Stan Edgar’s (Giancarlo Esposito) bunker for help, and Butcher has a chat with Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) that doesn’t go well. Zoe (Olivia Morandin) hitches a ride back to the Boys HQ where she finds her father and tells him Butcher killed her mother, Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) whereupon the two destroy all remaining samples of the supe-virus. The Boys are tracked down by The Deep (Chace Crawford), Black Noir II (who may be someone other than we think, having gone silent), Cindy and Dogknott and a big fight breaks out, in which Black Noir captures Edgar but is double-crossed by The Deep who takes him back to Homelander. Ryan confronts Homelander and is nearly killed. Starlight abandons Hughie because she worries she can’t protect him.
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Butcher, MM, Frenchie, Kimiko and Hughie head to Fort Harmony. This is where Vought ran a bunch of experiments including experiments with V-One, and they’re trying to track down any remaining serum before Homelander can get his grubby paws on it. Meanwhile, Homelander and Soldier Boy are also headed to Fort Harmony, though Homelander doesn’t realize Soldier Boy is actually working against him, urged on by some not-so-subtle hints from Sister Sage. At Fort Harmony, something is wrong and everyone other than Frenchie starts acting angry and hostile. Some underlying tension bubbles to the surface. When they spot Homelander and Soldier Boy, MM and Butcher decide it would be a good idea to go fight them. When Frenchie stops that, they all turn on one another.
Frenchie finds a supe who we later learn is Quinn, effectively growing into the wall. The weird vines throughout the fort are his doing, and he is the source of the pure hatred that’s overcome everyone. Frenchie gets Soldier Boy to kill Quinn, but when the hate effect is gone, Soldier Boy is crushed over what he’s done. Clearly there is a lot of backstory here. Soldier Boy also managed to lock Homelander in a super cell filled with radiation, though it didn’t hold him long. There is no V-One anywhere to be found. Someone else has taken it, likely Bombsight, another hero from Soldier Boy’s time. Meanwhile, Starlight paid a visit to her father who she hasn’t seen since childhood and meets his new family, learning a thing or two in the process.
Oh, and Homelander announces his godhood to the nation, as Vought launches the Democratic Church of America. It’ll be interesting to see how that’s received by the general public.
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This was the first episode of The Boys to really focus on Firecracker (Valorie Curry) the Vought News talking head and conservative / supe-supremacist / evangelical Christian rabble-rouser who has been one of Homelander’s biggest supporters. We’ve seen her conflicted over her boss’s claims this season. Homelander wants to spread the good word: He’s God, actually, and it’s time to ditch all that pesky Jesus stuff. Not only does Vought start the Democratic Church of America, with Homelander as its lord and savior, they send supes to harass congregations that refuse to play ball and then malign their pastors and members as evil Starlighters and pedophiles.
Firecracker has a lot of misgivings over all of this, and these are heightened when she’s visited by her old pastor who asks her for help after a supe attacked his church. When Firecracker goes on air, however, she’s confronted with Vought’s new angle: They want her to call out her old pastor as an abuser, effectively ruining his life and destroying her old church. Curry does a terrific job in this scene. Firecracker clearly doesn’t want to comply, but she sets aside her values, her beliefs, and her convictions and toes the Vought line for Homelander. In the end, even after sacrificing her dignity, Homelander kills her anyway.
Meanwhile, Homelander and Soldier Boy pay Mister Marathon a visit and find his mansion occupied by a bunch of comedians all played by themselves. The comedians and their supe friends all hate Homelander, but they’re all revealed to have been complicit in the various show trials that have seen many of Hollywood’s luminaries disappeared, killed or taken to Freedom Camps. When Malchemical gases Homelander, rendering him unconscious, they try to get Soldier Boy to kill him but he refuses. Everyone dies and Homelander and Soldier Boy return with new info about the location of the V1 serum: A superhero named Bombsight has it.
The episode was structured around various self-contained stories that shed more light on characters like Black Noir II, The Deep and even Butcher’s dog, Terror.
It looks like we’ll finally get to meet the mysterious Bombsight in this next episode. Hopefully the season picks up the pace a little bit as it really has taken a lot of detours to get to the main showdown. Look for more coverage of The Boys here on this blog. Follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook and let me know what you think of Season 5 so far.
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