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“We Will Make America Super Again!”
Frenchie is busy working on creating the new supe-killing virus, under the watchful eye of Kimiko and under tonnes of pressure from MM. Meanwhile, Homelander is occupied with his new mission to ensure Victoria Neuman lands in the Oval Office and becomes his puppet. However, Butcher seems to have completely different plans. It’s an all-out war for power in “The Boys” Season 4 finale, even though MM is convinced his team is the suicide squad.
If you’d remember, Episode 7 of “The Boys” ended with a gritty twist: the mysterious shapeshifter working for Sister Sage takes the form of Annie AKA Starlight and successfully tricks Hughie into unwittingly allowing them access to the top-secret files. Episode 8 focuses on multiple questions, rapidly answered in the action-packed finale. How long before the boys figure out they’ve been infiltrated? Will they be able to save President-elect Robert Singer from being assassinated? How long till the super-killer virus is ready to get rid of Victoria Neuman and Homelander? What about Ryan’s increasing rebellious streak?
The writers immediately answer my biggest question from Episode 7 of “The Boys” – how did the shifter know extremely private things about Annie? It turns out, the supe is a mash-up of Mystique and Rogue from X-Men! An amusing “Annie versus Annie” face-off awaits, even though the combat wasn’t as exciting as I hoped it would be. However, Eric Kripke and his team deliver a fast-paced finale by trimming down on the political chatter that dominated some of the earlier episodes.
The finale is not as bloodily gory as “The Wisdom of the Ages” chapter, the one where Homelander brutally massacres an entire floor of Vought employees, nor as hilarious as the barn chapter (Episode 5), where super-animals terrorize the boys, but it’s one hell of a finale. Butcher, who has been wallowing in misery and still hallucinating (Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s Kessler continues to whisper genocidal ideas into his ears), finally buckles up to execute the biggest twists of the season. He stuns the boys with a surprise visit in a crucial scene, performs a grisly act, then walks away from the team, turning to leave them with a goodbye message. He turns around, smiles, beginning his sentence with “oh, by the way…” and I was half-expecting him to say “don’t be a cunt,” but instead, he says “you’re all fucking welcome.”
The episode marks some unexpected deaths, panic, and a heck of a cliffhanger, almost like the ending of “Gen V.” And like I’ve already mentioned in earlier reviews – if you haven’t seen “Gen V,” watch it to get better context of some of the things that happen in this season of “The Boys.”
You can stream “The Boys” on Prime Video.
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