The Boys Season 5 Episode 7 – REVIEW

The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother’s Milk

Big spoiler warning.

The biggest disappointment for me was definitely Soldier Boy. He basically carried this season with his presence, charisma, and unpredictability… only for Homelander to silently strangle him unconscious without any real fight. Seriously? This is supposed to be the one man who could truly rival Homelander, the walking nuclear weapon, and we don’t even get a proper brutal showdown between them? It felt incredibly anticlimactic. Even if Soldier Boy was destined to lose, at least let him go down in an honest fight instead of quietly being “put to sleep.” If this is really the end of his arc, bringing him back this season almost feels wasted.

Kimiko suddenly training to become a new Soldier Boy-type weapon was also strange. I’m not against the idea itself, but it came out of nowhere. There was barely any setup leading into it, and the season has had this recurring issue where characters suddenly change direction from one episode to the next without enough buildup.

Hughie surviving this long is honestly becoming comedy at this point. In this episode, Hughie, Annie, and Mother’s Milk mostly just existed around the plot instead of truly affecting it. We finally got MM’s real name reveal and some cool character moments, but for a penultimate episode, they didn’t really do much besides taking down a few random supes that didn’t feel especially important.

Ironically, Deep had some of the best scenes in the episode, which feels insane to even say. Seeing him operate outside of his usual water-related comfort zone actually made him more interesting than half the main cast this week.

Sage might still have a massive role left to play, but at least her storyline has remained consistent throughout the season. Whether people like her or not, her writing feels focused compared to everyone else randomly shifting personalities and motivations depending on the episode.

Then there’s the ending with Frenchie dying and Kimiko mourning him while Butcher stood there with visible regret on his face. The question now is whether Butcher regrets losing Frenchie as a person… or whether he’s panicking because the only guy capable of perfecting the virus may now be gone forever. Honestly, it’s probably both.

Right now the biggest issue is pacing. There are still way too many unresolved threads:

• Homelander
• Ryan
• Butcher’s virus
• Soldier Boy
• Sage’s endgame
• The future of Vought
• Hughie and Annie
• The Boys themselves

…and somehow all of this is supposed to conclude in ONE episode.

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At this point I’m less worried about whether the finale will be good and more worried about whether it can even physically fit everything in without feeling rushed beyond belief.

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