The Boys Season 4 Review - More Supes, Mayhem, and Bodily Fluids

The fourth season brings some great new characters into the mix, while impressively setting up the show's end game.

This is a spoiler-free review of The Boys Season 4.

The Boys are back in town (I’m sorry, I had to) for Season 4 of the Prime series, once more delivering the exciting, bold and very, very graphic storytelling fans have come to expect, copious nudity and bodily fluids included. With so many characters to juggle, some are better served than others through these eight new episodes, but overall, it’s another strong season, setting things up for what we now know will be the final season next year. 

Season 3 concluded with Annie, AKA Starlight (Erin Moriarty) fully quitting The Seven, joining the Boys, and speaking out against Homelander, all while Homelander (Antony Starr) straight up killed a man – in retaliation for an empty bottle being thrown at his son, Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) – in broad daylight, only to be cheered on by his fans. Season 4 shows the growing divide between the public, with Annie’s adoring “Starlighters” and Homelander’s sycophants both showing up in force at Homelander’s trial, with increasingly dangerous overtones. 

The Boys has never been subtle about its allegories for our real world and series creator Eric Kripke has made it explicit in interviews, for those somehow in denial, that the narcissistic and power mad Homelander is a stand-in for Donald Trump. Things get even more blatant on this front in Season 4, which involves a lead up to an election being certified on January 6 and plenty of talking points for our heroes (but mostly for our villains) straight out of a CNN or Fox News appearance. On another show, such in your face parallels might come off as eye rolling, but it continues to fit on The Boys, which embraces excess and not holding back.