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Join the action when the fifth and final season of “The Boys” premieres with a two-episode drop Wednesday, April 8, on Prime Video. Antony Starr stars in “The Boys”
Cover Story Bye-bye, ‘Boys’: Prime Video superheroes bid farewell in Season 5 By Dana Simpson Just as there comes a time when we all need a hero, there also comes a time when our heroes must bid us adieu. After seven years and what will be 40 episodes throughout its run, Prime Video’s “The Boys” is going out with a bang. Join the action when the fifth and final season of “The Boys” premieres with a two-episode drop Wednesday, April 8, on Prime Video. Subsequent episodes will air weekly until the series finale on Wednesday, May 30. According to the official description offered by Prime, “’The Boys’ is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It’s the powerless against the
super powerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about ‘The Seven’ and their formidable Vought backing.” At it’s core, “The Boys” is a vigilante story which tackles themes of corporate greed, misplaced power and the weaponization of human beings while posing the question of where one’s civic responsibility begins and ends in the face of large-scale corruption. Headed toward its culmination point, the action series (which is also not without its share of comedic moments) gets darker as “Homelander (Antony Starr, “Outrageous Fortune”) controls America through fascist terror, imprisoning dissenters in Freedom Camps. “It’s Homelander’s world, completely subject to his erratic, egomaniacal whims,” reads the Season 5 description on Prime’s press site.
“Hughie [Jack Quaid, “Companion,” 2025], Mother’s Milk [Laz Alonso, “My Dad the Bounty Hunter”] and Frenchie [Tomer Capone, “Fauda”] are imprisoned in a Freedom Camp. Annie [Erin Moriarty, “Jessica Jones”] struggles to mount a resistance against the overwhelming Supe force. Kimiko [Karen Fukuhara, “The Boy and the Heron,” 2023] is nowhere to be found. “But when Butcher [Karl Urban, “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” 2003] reappears, ready and willing to use a virus that will wipe all Supes off the map,” the description continues, “he sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change the world and everyone in it.” Supporting cast membes this season include “Supernatural” stars Jensen Ackles (returning as Soldier Boy), Jeffrey Dean Morgan (return-
ing as Joe Kessler), Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins, as well as “Breaking Bad’s” Giancarlo Esposito (returning as Stan Edgar) and series newcomer Daveed Diggs (“Hamilton,” 2020). Showrunner and producer Eric Kripke (“Supernatural”) returns to helm the series, which is based off the comics of the same name by Garth Ennis (“Constantine,” 2005) and Darick Robertson (“Gen V”), who also serve as executive producers alongside Seth Rogen (“The Studio”), Evan Goldberg (“Superbad,” 2007) and James Weaver (“This Is the End,” 2013), to name a few of many. Don’t miss the final season of “The Boys,” premiering with a double episode Wednesday, April 8, because, to quote Prime Video, “It’s the climax, people. Big stuff’s gonna happen.”
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“Euphoria” - Season 3 (HBO Max — April 12, Season Premiere) A group of childhood friends wrestle with the virtue of faith, the possibility of redemption and the problem of evil in the long-awaited third season of this raw, high school-set drama series. Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Martha Kelly, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Toby Wallace star.