The Boys Season Four
Spoiler warning for all of The Boys seasons so far.
Also, content warning for SA and DVA.
If you were to ask me what my favourite show is, I would have to think about that in terms of shows that are already complete. However, if you were to ask what my favourite ongoing show is, I would have to say The Boys, which is why it’s so disappointing to say that its most recent season, season four, is the worst one so far.
From my perspective, the previous seasons had gotten exponentially better each time, and despite the weird and contradictory political backlash season three received, which Jessie Gender did two solid videos about, was, in my opinion, the best season of the show and, in retrospect, definitely a tough act to follow.
At first, it felt like maybe The Boys wasn’t bad but had plateaued. More of the same. Nothing new.
I still think this is true, but on top of that the season has its failures.
There are little things like I don’t understand how characters got from one location to the next.
But there’s also stuff like the characters being confronted with the fact that they suck and have done unforgivable things. It makes sense to do this, but it’s at the expense of making the show feel like a bummer now because the characters are depressed about their…
