The fifth and final season of Prime Video’s superhero satire series, The Boys, is nearing the halfway point this week. Homelander (Antony Starr) and his crew of nefarious supes, now with the full backing of both Vought and the US government, are facing off against Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the rest of the titular Boys one last time. Last week’s episode ended with some extreme violence and a real setback for our heroes.
Read on to find out everything you need to know about The Boys Season 5, Episode 4 plus the full season release schedule and more.
What Time Does ‘The Boys’ Season 5, Episode 4 Come To Prime Video?
New episodes of The Boys release on Wednesdays on Amazon Prime Video at midnight Pacific Time. This is a global release, so Episode 4 will drop at the same time in every region Prime Video is available. Here’s what that translates to in your timezone:
- US — Wednesday, April 15 at 12am PT / 3am ET
- Canada — Wednesday, April 15 at 12am PT / 3am ET
- UK — Wednesday, April 15 at 8am
- India — Wednesday, April 15 at 12:30pm IST
- Singapore — Wednesday, April 15 at 3pm SGT
- Australia — Wednesday, April 15 at 5pm AEDT
- New Zealand — Wednesday, April 15 at 7pm NZDT
The fourth episode clocks in at 1 hour and 2 minutes, just a tiny bit longer than the first two and exactly the same length as the third. The rest of Season 5’s episodes all clock in just above one hour, though we don’t know how long the Season 5 finale will be. Here’s the release schedule:
- Episode 4 – April 22
- Episode 5 – April 29
- Episode 6 – May 6
- Episode 7 – May 13
- Episode 8 – May 20
What’s Happened In ‘The Boys’ So Far This Season?
Episode 1
Read a full recap of Episodes 1 & 2 right here.
One year has passed since the events of Season 4 and Homelander has solidified his hold over both Vought and the nation. A puppet president is in place. Butcher is on the run while MM (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Hughie (Jack Quaid) are all detainees in a Vought-run “Freedom Camp” for Starlighter sympathizers and other political prisoners. After Starlight releases the Flight 37 video showing Homelander’s true nature, he vows revenge and has Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) leak that the Boys will be executed in three days. Butcher finds Starlight and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and they make an escape plan that goes very badly until A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) shows up and finally does something truly heroic, paying the ultimate price to save the team.
Episode 2
The Boys escape and move onto the testing stage of Butcher’s plan to release the supe-killing supervirus, which involves breaking into a mansion that houses supe influencers and testing it out on them. Only, Homelander unfreezes his dad, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), and sends him after Butcher, withholding information about the super-virus. Things get crazy and two of the influencer supes are infected with the virus and die. Soldier Boy is also infected, but while everyone from Butcher and Starlight to Homelander himself thinks that Soldier Boy is dead, he’s revealed to be very much alive in the end.
Episode 3
Read a full recap of Episode 3 right here.
Instead of going rogue, Soldier Boy returns to The Seven where he’s proclaimed a hero whose reputation was smeared by the “lamestream media” and who was framed by Starlight. The Boys head to Stan Edgar’s (Giancarlo Esposito) bunker for help, and Butcher has a chat with Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) that doesn’t go well. Zoe (Olivia Morandin) hitches a ride back to the Boys HQ where she finds her father and tells him Butcher killed her mother, Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) whereupon the two destroy all remaining samples of the supe-virus. The Boys are tracked down by The Deep (Chace Crawford), Black Noir II (who may be someone other than we think, having gone silent), Cindy and Dogknott and a big fight breaks out, in which Black Noir captures Edgar but is double-crossed by The Deep who takes him back to Homelander. Ryan confronts Homelander and is nearly killed. Starlight abandons Hughie because she worries she can’t protect him.
Watch ‘The Boys’ Season 5, Episode 4 Trailer
I’m excited to see where Episode 4 takes us, but I’m not watching the trailer because I hate spoilers. I’ll be tuning into Episode4 tomorrow so look for my recap and review here on this blog sometime tomorrow afternoon or evening. If you follow me on Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook I always share my reviews to socials. What do you think of Season 5 so far?
