This review contains full spoilers for The Boys Season 4, Episode 5, “Beware the Jabberwock, My Son.” If you’ve read The Boys comics, you’re probably pleased that Prime Video’s adaptation isn’t anywhere near as perverted and edge-lord-y as its source material. Eric Kripke’s show has chosen to modify much of Garth Ennis’ superhero satire, but the latest episode of Season 4, “Beware the Jabberwock, My Son,” proves that the showrunner hasn’t ditched everything from Ennis’ pages.
Because if there’s one thing the show and comics agree on, it’s torturing Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid). He’s everyone’s favorite punching bag because he’s the innocent wee mouse of the group. Testing Hughie is the franchise’s bread and butter, but even then, the Campbell family tragedy of “Beware the Jabberwock, My Son” feels especially vindictive – and somewhat like overkill.
After Compound V turns Hugh Sr. (Simon Pegg) into an amnesiac murder machine, Hughie is forced to humanely execute his father. These are the consequences of Hughie’s actions last episode : Even though he made the responsible choice at the last second and dropped the stolen Compound V vial, his mother, Daphne (Rosemarie DeWitt), slipped the blue superdrug into Hugh Sr.
’s IV drip. He wakes up good as new – only now he can dematerialize through solid objects, like when he accidentally bisects a fellow patient by glitching into his abdomen. Hughie spent the last few episodes furious that .
