The Boys Season 4: Does the series have something interesting to say?

After two years, Season 4 of The Boys is finally coming to Prime Video. Based on Garth Enn and Darric Robertson’s comic book of the same name, Eric Kripke’s graphic novel returns for bloody new episodes.

If the series, which is rated 4.4 out of 5 by AlloCiné viewers, is very popular, it has reached a milestone by reaching its fourth season and soon already ordered the fifth and final season. After all these years and two spin-offs (Gen V and Diabolical), is The Boys still worth it?

Should You Be Watching ‘Boys’ Season 4?

Upon its release in 2019, The Boys made a big splash in the soap opera world by using the superhero genre, at the beginning of its decline on the big screen, to hijack it and use it to deliver political satire on a grand scale.

The series has made violence, cynicism and garbage its trademark, which has allowed it to stand out and gather a large community of fans. Although it is based in an alternate reality, The Boys uses its unusual plot to cover all the socio-political changes that our world has undergone.

Anything goes with boys. The series never took a straight shot at white supremacy, critics of the #MeToo and #BlackLivesMatter movements, mass manipulation strategies, and fake news (and by extension Trump-era politics).

After two very succinct and fluid first seasons, season 3 suffered a slight lapse in speed as it was superficially scattered about all the things it wanted to discuss, to the point where it forgot about its character development, stagnating in its own stereotypes and wrapping everything up in sometimes incoherent garbage. .

But Season 4 of The Boys seems to be rectifying the situation. If violence, irreverence and satire are always present, these factors serve a more refined narrative that allows its characters to develop, especially secondary personalities that are sometimes neglected, such as La Crème (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Kapon). ) or Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara).

The characters finally confront what they are and go through an “existential crisis” box and interrogation, especially Hugh (Jack Quaid), a homelander (Anthony Starr) who faces trial (like Trump at this point). Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and especially Butcher (Karl Urban), who is the focal point of this season.

Civil war in the United States is approaching, as Victoria Neumann (Claudia Dumitt) moves closer and closer to the White House, more or less willingly, with the help of a homelander who has become an idol of American extremists and supremacists.

They face the CIA and the boys, aided by Starlight, a leader of progressive activists, do everything to lead them to their doom and restore Ryan (Cameron Crovett), the son of Homelander. Between the two camps, a small ember is enough to ignite everything.

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The real faces (good or bad) will finally be revealed in this Season 4, allowing The Boys to take a new path. While influential in its political message and sharp references to pop culture, the series regains a brilliant and current sense of criticism and regains total control over its subject matter.

And that’s thanks to the arrival of new characters like Firecracker (Valorie Carr) and Sister Sage (Susan Heyward), updates and cutting-edge political strategies, fake news and opinion manipulation, and in the case of Season 4, the presidential election.

If the intentions of the series were clear from the beginning, the showrunner surely felt the need to confirm them this season, as the fiction has shifted and is perceived as “overwhelmed” by a certain part of the public, as he recently explained. that The Hollywood Reporter :

“Anyone who thinks the show is ‘Woke’ or whatever, I don’t care. Go watch something else. But I’m definitely not going to limit or apologize for what we’re doing. Some people who watch it think Homelander. That’s a hero, what We say, but it’s not subtle.

If it seems that The Boys fits perfectly with current events and highlights the problems facing our society – especially at the moment with the rise of supremacists and the far right – it only highlights the issue highlighted by social networks and the race for infotainment. Like South Park in another genre.

The series is finally resting on its laurels to embrace larger issues beyond borders that will pull all the cards and lead to a resolution that will be explosive and come at the right time in the fifth and final season. Another sign that his showrunner’s intelligence has a defined arc and ending preconceived.

In short, The Boys rediscovers the brilliance of its first seasons as a must-see series, still as enjoyable and terrifying, smart and relevant in its writing, with impeccable casting and extravagant but wildly entertaining set pieces.

The first three seasons of “Boys” and the first season of “Gen V” are available on Prime Video.