[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the first three episodes of The Boys Season 4, including some sassy talk about what the kids call “glizzy” these days.] The Boys flew right into their fourth season with some very pointed commentary about what is happening in our current political climate and the news that Season 5 would be its final run . The first three episodes that dropped on June 13 establish a surprising new dynamic among our titular heroes now that de facto leader Billy Butcher ( Karl Urban ) is battling the fatal side-effects of blasting Compound V last season and Mother’s Milk ( Laz Alonso ) is hellbent on bouncing him from the fight.
Hughie ( Jack Quaid ) is distracted with his father’s stroke and the re-appearance of his mother (Rosemarie DeWitt), new team member Annie ( Erin Moriarty ) is at the center of a Vought-crazed “patriots”-vs-Starlighters tragedy, Frenchie ( Tomer Capon ) is getting his Pride on, and Kimiko ( Karen Fukuhara ) has stumbled upon a chapter from her past that, well, ends in a Boys -level amount of carnage. At the same time, chaos is reigning over at Vought, where Homelander ( Antony Starr ) has been forced to take on some new recruits for the Seven, including Qanon-ish conspiracy-feeder Firecracker ( Valorie Curry ) and Sister Sage ( Susan Heyward ), who is both the most intelligent being on the planet and the least cuddly. On top of that, he’s also trying to groom his son Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) into embracing the.