The Boys season 5 finale, Prime reports 57 million viewers
Prime Video says The Boys season 5 finale has reached about 57 million viewers and counting. The episode closes the streaming show's fifth season and resolves season-long arcs around Billy Butcher, Homelander, and their allies. The Boys, which debuted in 2019, blends superhero spectacle with violent ethical conflict, and this audience number cements the series as a key Prime Video franchise and will shape investment in future seasons and spinoffs.
Well, I have now watched the final episode of the final season of The Boys.
🔞Cass, The Rocker Queen🔞12That's about the reaction I've seen as a whole. What is it about television shows that they just can't write an ending to save their lives?
X and Meta are for stooges; I boycott twitter and facebook2I'm so sorry for you now it's my turn to suffer, gonna watch it tonight
ZombieSteven2Yup. That was a show that definitely aired it's final episode today.
Astra StarGazer2That is an accurate description of the ending, yes, and I agree.
Turned on the most recent season of The Boys because I needed something I could ignore while I work. This is dire.
Chris Person76They made the one character who spoke in (fictional/fake) sign language talk and she immediately started speaking like she was trying to get reddit gold five years ago. bsky.app/profile/cono...
Genius Of Lunch18I’ve been watching clips of it out of curiosity and it feels always seems like the characters are about to talk about their cromulent fuckcrustable of a day
Alex8there was maybe one good season of material across 4 and 5, like it would've been a good excuse to do one of those 5+3 gimmick release schedules
The Wizard Orb3series finales seem to have a running theme from all sorts of shows now (that they fucking suck and you can see the actors are sick of some producers ass)
Worm Girl2Building stuff out/padding/retconning for spinoffs killed a lot of its momentum.
former dog2I like the part where a parody of a well known superhero has a similar power but it’s sexually gross. Can’t get enough!
Andy Hansen2Was Scrubs not enough to ignore?
SpacePrez2Its nearly unwatchable? It feels like game of thrones levels of "we wrote ourselves out of the source material and then didn't know what to do at all"
Charles Latan2That’s what Hallmark Channel is for
The Boys is deeply unpleasant & gets off on that unpleasantness, but it does perfectly dramatize what a lost cause it is to show “loyalty” to Trump. Also, it was a nice treat to see Musk get drop-kicked into space
Emily Nussbaum29But by the end, I didn’t care at all which of the show’s 3 million characters got blown to bits— and man alive, the nonstop sex talk was juvenile. It’s so funny that the character with the best, richest, most complex arc (& best performance other than Starr) was Deep!
Daniel Fienberg 3The show went off the rails for me last season, which I hated so much I haven't watched any of this season's episodes. Even at its very best, it required a precarious balancing act and I felt like they lost their footing ad couldn't really recover.
most of the boys seasons 4 and 5 could have been an email, but the finale was alright
Rebecca Harding4huge amount of season screentime dedicated to a pair of chekov's guns (the virus and V1) that didn't end up factoring into the finale. so the plot structure of the season doesn't even have "setting the table" as an excuse
Trjn2It takes a unique skill to make something feel both rushed and superfluous.
