Someone should take Marvel’s headquarters, toss it straight into a blender with Succession, Jackass, and a dash of sharp-edged social satire. And voilà: out comes The Boys — still the most grotesque, funniest, and disturbingly well-oiled series about power, morality, and men in latex who can’t seem to keep it in their pants.
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Season 4 picks up where the last one left off: with blood in the hair, politics in the subtext, and Homelander, who has now officially become a kind of orange-hued Jesus. It’s hard to write anything about The Boys without it sounding exaggerated — but the truth is that the series still balances on the razor’s edge between genius and deeply bad taste. And it does so with a confidence that only very few TV series possess.
Butcher is still the most traumatised British bulldog on television, and Hughie is still trying to make sense of being human in a universe where nobody really is. It’s raw. It’s dark. And it’s actually… moving.
The new characters do exactly what they’re supposed to: they come in, wreck things, and leave us with the feeling that we’re somehow even more fucked than we thought. But it’s Homelander who still steals the show. Antony Starr plays him with a mix of psychopathic charisma and a look that says: “I can hear you thinking — and I don’t like what you’re thinking.”
Perhaps the most impressive thing is how much the series still has on its mind. This isn’t just blood and boobs. It’s a series that screams about media manipulation, fascism, tech giants, and our willingness to sell everything — including ourselves — for a little security and a TikTok following.
So what?
We should be tired of this by now. We should say that satire doesn’t need to be this vulgar. We should wrinkle our noses at the fact that The Boys has now been around for four seasons and is still pushing boundaries like a 14-year-old with a YouTube channel.
But the truth is: The Boys has never been better. It’s wild, smart, funny, and more relevant than ever.
So yes — The Boys are still assholes. But they’re our assholes.
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
