The Boys Finale Was The Show At Its Weakest and Most Predictable

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The Boys isn’t the show it used to be. It’s still great, and remains a biting satirical take on alt-right communities, contemporary politics, and our obsession with capitalist media, but the central thrust of its narrative and the characters we’re expected to root for have slowly begun to fall away. A few weeks of rushed dialogue and hamfisted plotting came to a head in last week’s season finale, with a showdown fans had been waiting years for ending in a relative whimper. Turns out Homelander isn’t unstoppable after all.

I wish the Season 3 finale had delivered on its potential instead of striving to do so much and faltering under the weight of its own ambition. Now we have to wait until the next season to see if it recovers, set to journey on a completely different plotline as Soldier Boy is frozen once again and Maeve flees the threat of Homelander with her powers gone forever. I’m excited to see where it goes from here, while also mourning what quite clearly could have been.

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It all started going downhill from Herogasm, a strong episode that was hyped for weeks thanks to the infamous part of the source material it was adapting. We were promised sex, violence, and acts of debauchery so heinous that we wouldn’t be able to remove its sordid images from our minds. The reality wasn’t far off, but this unnecessary hype doomed the remaining episodes. Actors were asked to sell deep character arcs and sweeping plot points in a matter of minutes, with moments that should have been seen as unexpected twists instead feeling like awkward bouts of exposition that were thrown in out of necessity.

The Boys used to be much smarter, using large parts of entire episodes