Is The Boys dropping off?

The Boys are back with 2024's Season 4 with the promise of the most intense season yet. We also have news that Season 5 will actually be the last with things presumably ending with Homelander having his head caved in with a crowbar. Not everybody is happy with the ways things are playing out with this latest season, with some considering it the weakest yet. Here we get into all of that with an exert from our podcast The Weekly Planet where we discuss the first three episodes. Thanks for listening!










#TheBoys

[JD-qwvz]

They need to introduce the only man they can defeat Homelander

Corn-on-Coblin

[AnalogStick]

I loved the little moment between Kimiko and Frenchie where he denies the moon landing

[afunkymonke]

I really liked when Sister Sage asked Deep if he wanted to watch Transformers 2, the one James and Mason really liked. And the Deep was all "yeah Sister grab the gem"

[SergioLeRoux]

I've always likened The Deep to that squirrel thing in the Ice Age movies. Doing completely irrelevant things but also the dumbest and most entertaining things, and people just enjoy him get his comeuppance every single time.

[alexfilma]

Soldier Boy and Stormfront don’t age is because they were given the original version of compound V, which no longer exists.

[AnalogStick]

Shows need to end, that's how it can truly become a masterpiece. 5 seasons are enough for most shows

[MrTibster]

It’s still great but the sheer amount of plot lines is ridiculous, it’s become quantity over quality and it’s really killed the pacing

[stewartfennell]

That scene with Will Ferrell playing A-train's coach was a howl....

[BigChief]

Victoria actually has the same powers as Marie from Gen V! Some form of Hemokinesis.

[inshanstr]

Carlo-Esposito's charecter is alive. He was pushed out of the company by Homelander in a prior season.

[WhelmedButReady]

I like this season so far but I was livid with the reasonings behind keeping Homelander alive in thr S3 finale. They can't drag it out much longer as it becomes increasingly implausible that Homelander doesn't just kill The Boys and be done with it

[deusex]

Of all the absurd things in The Boys the most unbelieveable is how Hughie is still alive. That plot armour is tougher than Homelander.

[pripdipstick]

It's a miracle it lasted this long. I think The Boys would've been an absolutely brilliant show if it wrapped up in maybe 1 - 3 seasons. There's only so long you can drag on a show where the premise is "kill Superman" without killing Superman. It really struck me when Soldier Boy was incapacitated at the end of Season 3 because I realised we'd had two consecutive seasons where the core plot involved a new supe arriving, fucking with Homelander, and then disappearing in the finale.

[thelaughingrouge]

Eric Kripke learned his lesson, he let Supernatural go on after season 5 and look what happened to it.

[juicestains]

I am getting that feeling I got with Breaking Bad S4 where we’re in a penultimate stage. It doesn’t quite feel like we’re at the end yet but it feels like we’re getting there.

[alrox]

Black Noir should have killed Soldier Boy in place of Queen Maeve to give his storyline in S3 a conclusion and a satisfying end to to his character while also a somewhat shock twist taking the heavy hitter in The Boys’ plan to kill Homelander.

Instead, Homelander just decides to kill Noir because reasons. And Maeve has the heroic self sacrifice scene trying to kill the guy trying to kill the guy she wants to be killed just to wake up in a hospital bed in the next scene because she needs to have another heroic entrance and/or self sacrifice killing Homelander next season.

S1 and S2 are goated and so was S3 right up until that point.

[kingpinpasta]

I don’t think the show is dropping off, but if they didn’t decide to end it at season 5 then the show would really start to become repetitive.

[zserbs]

Season 4 is already starting to feel like a filler arc. Imo it’s good that season 5 is the end since I felt that the Homelander and Butcher dynamic was played out by season 3 and Soldier Boy saved it.

[ClausCorbett]

"Some people consider their listeners family. [pause]. Not me. I don't." is actually a very sane thing to say and I respect that.

[Troyza]

I can see the argument that theyre retreading similar plotlines, especially with killing Homelander and is Butcher still part of The Boys or not etc., but it's still a bit of fun along the way with new characters, just hoping they nail the ending.