The Boys - Amazon Prime Original - (**Spoilers**) (No Comic Spoilers!)

In the hope that Soldier Boy would turn, Sage planted the video of Homelander and Storm Front. It looked like it was working until Soldier Boy had a change of heart at the end.

Paul Reiser would have been a great addition from the start. Excellent character.

It was a pretty good episode overall, but they've definitely made some missteps in the middle part of the season.

Yeah, it's what I expected in a way but the acting generally saves this show for me, which separates it from being another GoT level disaster in my book.

I thought it was as good as it could have been (given the 7 episodes leading up to it). You could tell there were budget restrictions, but they did well with what they had.

However, nerds saying it was as bad as GoT are deluded. It was nowhere near as bad as that.

Loved the scene with Kimiko/Frenchie, and the final Butcher/Hughie scene was surprisingly touching.

Good sh*t.

Underwhelming and a bit flat. Really expected more surprise. I found the entire season the same though.

That's my thoughts. I think people are overreacting saying it's comparable to Game of Thrones final season. Yeah it's clear they ran out of ideas, there's only so much depth to say Homelander or Butchers characters. Final season was grand, overall a good series and an interesting take on the superhero theme.

The weakest season of the show but not it a terrible way. Without pulling some big twist where Homelander wins or The Deep becomes president or Sage succeeds in wiping out most of life on the planet, it was always heading the way it did so of course it's going to feel a bit underwhelming. As far as I'm concerned, they stuck the landing. A solid end that doesn't ruin what had gone before. It was satisfying too seeing Homelander finally defenseless and reduced to nothing. The biggest miss for me was, as said above, the Starlight/Deep showdown going out with a whimper (though I did like that the sealife got their justice). I get they probably wanted the original gang to be the ones to take down Homelander but it felt wrong how they wrote Soldier Boy out of the end. The final character wrap up was nicely done, especially Kimiko in France.

The wider failings of the season as a whole though are what bring it all down from the epic highs it had. The whole virus plot just never worked for me, primarily because it kills almost instantly and non-supes don't carry it, so how was it ever supposed to spread worldwide. It made no sense. In terms of the characters, I think they pushed Butcher and Homelander to extremes that they just became parodies of themselves. Butcher just became irredeemably unlikable and predictable. While with Homelander it's like they stripped away his menace and just left the super powered man-child that wants everyone to love him. Starlight also became increasingly unbearable… whether it's whatever the actress did to her face that he can't emote/act any more or just that the only thing the writers could think to do with her dialog is add the word "dick" into every second sentence.

Anyway, lots I'm sure I could pick at from this season but overall it was still very enjoyable and it gave a satisfying, if predictable, end.

Well that ending was incredibly underwhelming. But TBH the show never lived up to the promise of the first series really, and the last two were pretty meh over all.

At least they're not dragging it out to another one, two or three series and had the sense to call it a day.

A disappointing ending and last season. For a relatively short show in terms of episodes its amazing how quickly it became mediocre.

Thought Maeve would return for the finale but I guess she had no powers so wouldn't have done much.

Seeing Homelander grovel was hilarious end to the character.

I tapped out id way through last season.

I never got into the books. Did the ending mirror what it was in the comics?

Not at all.