New season of the boys is literally just "Conservatives BAD!! Conservatives BAAAD!!" it's really not fun to watch in any way

The actress for Starlight looks like she's dying.

Hughie got SA’d twice and it’s all jokes and banter but God forbid that happens to any woman in the show

Tek Knight was arguably one of the few legit heroes in the comics. His problem was a fixation on sex stemming from a tumor afflicting the part his brain responsible for lust and attraction. But he would deny any immoral feelings and would do his best to be a legitimate hero. And the show made him a grape lover

My only thought after every episode has been “so nothing really happened”

The boys basically became “and then this happens” the show.

(SPOILERS) The Boys season 4 is woke and that sucks yes, but the writing is also really bad as well, and there's plot holes and contrivances everywhere. Like how dumb Sage is despite being "the smartest person in the world." How Butcher's cancer could decimate an Alpha Level supe like Victoria. Like how Annie is called out for being selfish and malicious by both Firecracker and the Shapeshifter and she only proves them right by dismissing Hughie's double-S.A and making it _all about her_ despite being graped several times and his life being in danger all that time. How Ryan cares about his mother, but could off Mallory, who's basically like his grandmother. Turning Frenchie gay for an NPC nobody even remembers the name of, only to un-gay him for Kimiko, despite Kimiko permanently putting him in the Friend Zone since season one. The Deep being set up for a redemption arc considering he's living his life in fear, but then denied it for A-Train, who's been a douche the entire series, yet suddenly deserves "redemption." Or the several gross out genitalia scenes they have on the show, but showing Firecracker's breasts was "too obscene" for them (not that we needed to see that either, but the hypocrisy is insane.) I made it to the end of season 4 and will not be returning for season 5. And I almost never say that about a show. I'm not even conservative, but there's only so much mean-spiritedness and the writers being assholes to 50% of their audience, I can take. She Hulk already did that in 2022.

This season has literally gone nowhere

The boys season 4 starts with buther telling everyone about the virus, which is halfway throughout the season. Everything before that was filler, what a waste

*in my best The Deep voice*: "See bro, the reason the writing is all scatter plotted bro, and inconsistent bro, is because if all the characters had a shared goal bro, the story would be over in 3 epsidoes. Bro. We gotta keep this shit making money for as many seasons as possible bro. Really gotta enlongate these "story arcs" bro. Otherwise we're all out of a job bro. And what's especially important bro, is if the show were to end bro, our ugly ass, bald, lead writer wouldn't be able to stuff the show with his political rhetoric bro. God is he ugly but he keeps ME PAID BRO!"

Feels like 80% of scenes this season wete filler or stuff we didnt need

The older seasons the writer’s message were subtle and not overpowering the show to the point where some characters do or say irrational stuff. Why do we need Tek knight to stare at A train for 5 seconds, talk about slave catching and saying his great great grandpa would’ve Catch A-train’s ancestors for us to know his wealth was built off of slave catching? They Could’ve added like a picture of an old man and tek knight describes him as his grandpa to A train before Atrain looks to his right and notices a display of a whip and Tek knight blocks his views, assuring him it’s for BDSM and not what he’s thinking of. You can add your message without making it insufferably annoying

A big one I noticed is how un-terrifying homelander is this season. In previous seasons the main thing that made him terrifying is the unpredictability. The moments where you didn't know what he was gonna do, if he was gonna kill someone, or attack them, that's what made scenes tense and drew you in. Every scene with him this season made me roll my eyes. You went into it already knowing what he was going to do as soon as he entered the room.

The whole of the boys can be summed up as waiting for a sneeze to come but it never comes

Kimiko went with Hughie to be be his bodyguard. That was pretty clear. I'm not saying the season makes any sense, but... yeah.

Madelyn Stilwell was more a MC than Becca

For me its too political and also too much plot armor, if you don’t want a character to die why write them into a situation where it’s unbelievable

Probably Seth Rogen’s doing that it’s so corny now. He is incapable of writing villains without him making them unlikeable over the top cartoons representing people who disagree with him. Good shows have likable villains with nuance. Also Starlight is always a jump scare now from the surgery.

The stuff they did with Tek Knight legit pissed me off. They went out of their way to make their world's version of Batman as comically evil as possible. Wealth coming from Prisons and Slave catching, making his Alfred equivalent an angry borderline slave, making his Robin little more than his gimp, his Batcave is a Sex Dungeon, and he's a sex obsessed, racist, elitest prick who everyone views as a joke and dies as part of a BDSM gag. So much potential with said character and they threw it all away to make a bunch of painfully obvious and heavy handed jabs at Batman, the rich and the like.

yeah the plot really sucks this season. The best episode is Homelander returning to the Vault.. but even that is just entertaining. It doesn't really drive the story forward. Love the show, but this season is by far the worst. Hoping the last episode goes out with a bang, but I hear it ends on another cliffhanger.

Season has been a WASTE of the years we waited for it.

Every episode from 1-7 was just random things ending with 'shock values', while main plot inched only in the last episode that too as a step up to season 5, I mean think about sister sage, you could remove the character from the plot and nothing would change, starlight's whole activist group had no real consequence on 'the boys', the virus was nothing new they already introduced it in gen v so it had no plot advancement, Butcher had very little significant screen time apart from the ones with Kessler that actually focused on the main goal, I mean honestly it was really poor, they pulled off the last episode at least, someone can just watch the last episode and move on to season 5 and they would be more or less good. Edit: And my god they need to tone down their political pandering, I get it kripke is a lefty but his obsession has ruined the show

Something I've been thinking about recently is that maybe the reason theres plenty of filler and scenes that don't matter is because the writers chose to focus on the 7 which means the world of the show has less heroes so they can fit the structure of a seasonal series. The boys comic has the main cast go up against more popular and "stronger" heroes so the comic has more oppurtunities to kill off badguys as they work up to homelander and the other heroes that are left alive in the ending. With less characters in the show its harder to write climactic battles and confrontations with consequences that matter. I know the show has other problems but I think less supes(badguys) is also a factor.

What’s even happened this season. 2 “evil” supes have been added to the Seven but are write offs and basically irrelevant, Hughies dad died, The Boys have gotten “SLIGHTLY” closer to the virus, Edgers still in prison, not much has changed for MMs family,not much has changed with Kumiko and Frenchi, Hughie and Starlights relationship are basically the same. Butcher has gotten a slightly bit closer to dying. So what could have been accomplished in two episodes in season 2 takes up the entire season

the season is repeating the same stuff again thats why it's so boring to watch now. Hopefully Soldier Boy will come back and save it

has homelander lost his humanity or not? is sage smart? is ryan turning evil? can homelander tell when someone's lying? is anyone even trying to kill homelander? is homelander trying to kill anyone? is the death of innocents a bad thing? is butcher trying to save ryan? the writers can't seem to decide.

They made Frenchie gay the show fuckin sucks now.

The Comic story is a hundred Times better, they butchered everything about it.

Even the good parts of this season are suffering, Homelander yet again kills off another group of people *off screen* just like he did in season 2 and despite not being human *at all* he’s gone back to being season 1 Homelander controlled level with Firecracker now. Butcher and Ryan could’ve been a great storyline but they rushed Ryan into being sadistic so whenever Ghost Becca constantly brings up Ryan as a way to convince Butcher not to unleash the virus who cares, the Homelander spawnling is already on the way to become evil.

Well... the season was pretty good imo. Lots of character development everyone having their own major dilemmas, but the first 3 episodes weren't great. The finale was almost perfect.

Surprised you didn't use The Walking Dead as a comparison. That show started out really well, but in later seasons they had a season finale in mind (in line with the comics), and the rest of the season was a slow plod towards it, padding the season out with lots of filler episodes that had no bearing on the main story. That is what The Boys season 4 reminds me of. They have a finale in mind, to set the stage for the final season, but they can't write a story to get there as it would be too short, so they are padding the season with filler (not necessarily filler episodes, more as you described them, side quests). And as you said, these side quests have no bearing on the main story arc, they are just there to give the characters something to do to fill in the first half of the season, while drip feeding the story arc, in preparation for the second half of the season leading up to their desired season finale. I suspect the ending of season 4 will be the death of Robert Singer, the President, with the final shot of the episode being Homelander sitting in the Oval Office with his feet up on the desk, contemplating his victory and what he should do next, and probably also Butcher getting his hands on a version of the virus that is strong enough to kill Homelander but also every other supe as collateral damage, and his face showing he is going to use it (maybe showing imaginary Kessler killing imaginary Rebecca to show his dark side killing his good side etc).

how do you sound like the nerd emoji its lowkey insane

I agree with your statement about everything just happening with no real purpose, and that's how the show felt to me in the first few episodes. This is the most direct the show has been about its politics, which can get tiring. It also feels like The Boys took exactly what made the show popular and just went fucking nuts with it at the expense of good writing. There has been a lot of ad placement too (which is exactly the type of shit they make fun of earlier in the show). But its getting more direction after the last few episodes and I still think the overarching story is good. I have also enjoyed MM's character. I really liked the show when I first watched it so I am trying to stay hopeful about it. It just feels different now.

They are just cash grabbing, keeping this thing going as long as possible.

The only memorable scene from Season 4 was when Homelander grabbed the shoulder of that green dude with the goo running out and just tearing him appart. There was something perverse, disgusting and horrible about that scene that grossed me out

Speak for yourself I'm relishing Atrains redemption

I stopped watching after season 3 unironically pulled a power of friendship in the finale.

I accepted after the 2nd episode that this wasn't for me anymore. Erase that shit and never look back. Luckily I had lot's a training thanks to Disney.

Also, yeah Starlight was crying while looking at an older photo of herself. What the hell was that about? You know what's funny, the character development of this show reminds me The Walking Dead where it was so bad that they would devote all this time to a character you'd never heard over, just so they could kill that character off later in the episode and HOPE you felt something for them. It was done like clockwork. There was an actor on that show that starred on HBO's The Wire for a few episodes and he had more development in The Wire than 2 or so seasons of The Walking Dead. Anyway, that show's rise and fall...and spinoffs are just something I'll never understand.

With everything happening, nothing is happening in the grander scheme of things. Last season was too good to top even though it had its own flaws.

It's Jeffrey Dean Morgan. That guy ruins shows for a living.

Let's also add that this show has gone so hard left it sacrificed any story telling. I started this well after its debuted and two scenes got me hooked. Homelander abandoning those passengers on the plane and Homelander destroying the private jet carrying a senator or something like that. The story was about the anti-superhero and corporation controlling them and a lot of other weirdness. It's devolved into TDS.

What to expect from a WOKE garbage show. It just been more apparent now.

3:44 I don’t know I do think that it is the weakest season from the boys that’s definitely true and I kind of have watched all 4 of them just this past week like I literally just got into it but I don’t think it’s bad after going through chainsaw man part two I realized it’s a pretty good thing for stories to sometimes take it slow. However, I do have to agree with you here. Why don’t they just kill each other I don’t understand what is the point in letting butcher and his team live, they are a proven threat crazy enough wake up soldier boy to blow up seven tower to kill homelander letting them live is not an intelligent decision The level of underestimation is uncanny. These people scared homelander. These people put him in danger, and Nueman is just treating them like a bunch of belligerent children.

I wanted to argue this, but my guy does have a bit of a point. Think it's a bit hyperbolic, but not wrong.

i stopped watching last weeks episode when there was the fuckin web weaver ass scene

Its amazing how i though this could be an amazing ""spy"" type show where the heroes expose the bads lies or eventually they become just as strong as them and end their tyrannical system, but well guess i was expecting too much of what now is just political propaganda by Amazon

You sound like Alan from Smiling friends

This whole season is about each character's struggle..Starlight's energy, Hughie's parents, MM's family, Butcher's cancer, Deep's mental struggles, A-train's loyalty struggles, Homelanders power, Frenchie's relationship, and NO ONE care's about most of these characters. It's experiencing the same problem The Walking Dead did because it's not killing these characters off. These actors are like family now and they're too afraid to kill them off. All the interesting characters have been "killed off" while all the lame characters have remained. Homelander is this show. The more Homelander, the better. He's an anti-hero if you ask me. I actually can't stand the team, even Kimiko is annoying. Holy shit, SPEAK ALREADY! I bet there will be a severe ratings drop because many viewers didn't make it to that finale. It took a nosedive in season 3 with the story. Anyway, watching this now is like watching MSNBC. Next season will be like watching the news. People don't watch these shows for that purpose. Stop the anti-conservative agenda and worrying about diversity quotas and just focus on entertaining the audience. This season is at the level of something filmed during the pandemic or the product of a show that returned after a 2 years writer's strike. This is season 4 and it feels like it's already out of steam with filler. Maybe they're intentionally tanking it now because they don't know how to end it and want to work on spin-offs? Seriously, with TV shows now, it's a weak idea that gets a season, since a season is just 8-10 episodes, and if that season is a hit they have to make 4 more seasons and they have no idea how to do it. Back in the day TV shows went 24 episodes a season every year. They can't come close to that now. They know how to start a hit show, but that's pretty much it, and the streaming services don't care. They'll start a thousand shows and cancel them after 2 seasons. They got their views and that's all that matters. Then they'll make 5 spin-offs and comic book shows sell like drugs regardless. It's late and I'm rambling again. haha I just with HBO got this show, because I know they'd have given the fans what they want.

At this point it's better to watch Banshee instead. It has Homelander (Antony Starr) as a main character and all four seasons are well written. (Main story ends with season 2 though)

They traded their soul for politics and the monkeys paw is they flipped who is who. Yes. Literally. Everything each side does meta ethics wise is flip flopped lol.

Thanks for the bad take recomendation KZfaq, here ya go lil guy, a downvote and a comment! Now run along back to not having any kind of impact on the site ya lil incell

Not surprising, Eric Kripke let the same thing happen to supernatural. They kept making more and it felt stupid, inventing new things thay feel empty, just made to keep fans watching long as possibly but i dipped out, feel like only gonna watch season 5, then no spin offs, im done lol

Season 4 is clearly setting up for season 5. Whilst it hasnt been the greatest season (most likely the weakest) i think the plot advances will catch up in season 5 due to the events in season 4. As for the political agenda, its way more clear than it was yes but the show has always showed a political commentary on modern society. However, i expect better next season

Now.... Ever since that handicapped scene with the downsyndrome superman..where they let a plane filled with people die. This show has been worse than lost. Its like the ball sweat of tv shows like grays anatomy. With awful actors, awful story telling and really bad dialog.

I really enjoyed the first couple seasons but it’s sooo boring now. Couldn’t even finish episode 7 I think I’m done.

The reason The Boys didn't try to kill Neuman again, when they ran into her again (no pun intended) was, because they made a temporarily alliance with her to do something.

I stopped watching after season 2.

They should make the sode quest into a spin off

They did the same thing that alot of the dc tv shows did end the season on a major cliff hanger bring it up in the season premiere then Ignore it after that did homelander get in trouble for killing that guy at the end of last season who knows and clearly the writer don't care

“blah blah blah blah i dislike this show because my prime video subscription stopped” 🤓👆

The season ended really strong but yea most of the season felt filler.

your criticisms are so nitpicky T_T kimiko and hughie going together wasn't detrimental to the plot in any way :// remember that the boys are a team, the pairing makes sense and its really not that deep lol. while there are a lot of plot points going on, it's still well written (being properly connected to one another and addressed in universe) and is obviously leading to converge in the final season. there is a plot and its in the boys vs homelander as both sides continue to develop their identity and goals. to say the show sucks now while being dismissive of the fact that there has been so much actual development and payoff this season. ryans back and forth between homelander and butcher, kimiko actually addressing her past, hughie tying ends with his family, starlights continuous fight for justice, and best of all atrains redemption arc.

Lol it’s actually hilarious since the shows been pretty much the same the whole time. They can’t make you people happy and still stay true to the anti fash anti unchecked power of the comic. Every episode I said to my gf this is really gonna piss off all the neo fash gamer dweebs….and I was right. You guys should make your own show where corporate monopolies and billionaires are the good guys that would be so awesome 🥴😆😂

The problem with the Boys is that it is a parody of real life American politics. That's why there are so many stuffs happened at once, those things need to be passed to parody real life. Homelander being Trump is an example. That being said, you have a point in the subplot. Kimiko and Hughie scene is so dumb.

The end of season 3 was the beginning of the downfall of this show with how dirty they played the viewers.

Respectfully, this review is all over the place. The message constantly vibrates between "The main characters don't have any goals" and "There are too many characters who have goals" so quickly it's entered a new realm of blind confusion without addressing what's actually wrong with the show aside from minor nitpicks. All good characters have clear motivation with clear goals, and when there's not a big mystery unravelling the show will enter a state of all the characters being more free with what they get up to and explore what they want. This seasons them appears to be escaping your past, where each character has a different reaction. Homelander literally kills his past, Frenchie tries to punish himself for his crimes, Kimiko chooses to fight back against those who caused her pain, Hughie chooses to forgive A-Train for Robin and move on while Butcher confronts his violent past personality through his shattered mind. Choosing what questions to face your audience is just good writing, mix it in with uncertainty and surgical characterization.

3:28 they don't make any attempts maybe aw just maybe because she can one shot anyone with a clean head shoot duuuu did you skip on this part in season 3 and 2 they revealed her ability really early on in the show even in gen-v

2:53 ugh yeah figures that the French stereotype from the comics will be gay wash and not have a relationship with a Japanese girl like in the comics xd got push that woke agenda guys

I got through the 4th and my last season. It's just there for the idiotic TDS mania. It's fine to dislike any politician and especially that clown, but to watch a show that literally shoehorns every trope believed to be Trump related is just silly and lazy. There is no story. There's a sequence of loosely tied events and NOTHING gets resolved.

Bro's living still in a 2016 culture war 😭 Edit: After watching past the intro, this video is actually pretty good, though. Some genuinely funny bits in there, well edited. You made some valid points about the flaws of this season and although I do think the politics have been a little bit on the nose this latest season, I don't believe politics in The Boys is the main issue. Great video critique.

I honestly gave up right before the last episode of season 4 just not worth

Like the comics, this isn't meant to be approved by, or impressive to you. It's all a sad mess that has to come to an end. 😄

Bro it didnt change! Its always been political!!

7:14* OOF 😮🤣🤣🤣

the boys always suck even in season 1 ugh the comics where edgy yes and they did have there woke moments but the writing was still batter then this b.s

Image Kripke face, when he ruined his own show.... perfect wokenism strikes back at it's creator.

This season was a longer, bigger budget version of Gen V. Multiple episodes to end up eerily close to where it started. It was lazy, boring and dumb. Even without Kripke saying the show is his way of shitting on conservatives, it made not want to watch it any more.

Comparing it to Infinity war didn't help. The "side quests" they do, sets up for the next season which will probably bring them together, u did make a few good poins like hughie and Kimiko but its only a few minor problems in this season.

Literally all I heard: ☝🤓

Your voice, i cant

dont care, im still enjoying this season

great video, thanks

I haven’t even watched the show just watched it though KZfaq because it’s filled with so much filler

8:47 i think you contradicted you self on this one

Womp womp

I hated how they made kimiko a whiny teenager who texts the whole season. Literally what has she done?

I enjoy it

Judgin by the like to dislike ratio (I'm using the Return the Dislike Button addon for firefox) it feels like some comments that disagree with your review are deleted. Is that true?

Generation offended

Nah bro s4 is great. Characters are being fleshed out and it’s really refreshing compared to most other stuff.

Disagree. Loving this season

Its literally the same fuckin show 😂😂😂😂

Despite the flaws I still have enjoyed this season

good job love it

Homelander is not a nuanced at all. Powerful character with a tragic backstory. That has been so many times. Madara , obito, broly ,thanos. Lets get real now. People like this show because they think it's edgy and violent. That makes people feel mature. Starrs performance is severly overrated. The facial expressions he makes are so forced and down right stupid. He looks like me in the fourth grade when i huffed and puffed to try scaring my bullies. None of these characters are actual characters. Theyre tropes. Theres no characterization moments. We don't even know what they want anymore. In s1 they were trying to get revenge for robin. Idk anymore. Its no better than CW flash

Do make a part 2 please lol. I like this season in moments it seems but have several problems with it

Wow. People really are missing how the Boys was parodying all the woke shows, and what people say about them. Like how are you all missing this? The last 2 episodes are great. Can’t wait for the finale.

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Ngl idk what ur on about dude. How about u wait until the seasons actually done? Aswell, its setting up for season 5 and giving the backlash from season 3.