The Boys Season 2 Episode 5 Breakdown and Review

Episode 5 We Gotta Go Now

The movie on the formation of the Seven has been rewritten to include Queen Maeve's sexuality and Homelander wants to bring Elena in to the public sphere, but she is uninterested though overruled by Vought. A-Train is unhappy with his portion of the movie, which includes his exit, but becomes complacent. Butcher has trouble accepting his wife's decision to stay in her current situation, and plans to retire, but a challenge from Black Noir brings the team back together. The Deep's marriage is announced as he becomes the public face of the Church of the Collective. Homelander fights one of his own creations, super-terrorists, but kills a bystander by mistake causing a drop in his popularity. He tries to quell the protests against him, and ends up fantasizing mass murder. He approaches Stormfront for support from her meme generator teams and it increases his popularity by 5 points. He and Stormfront end up together, attracted by their mutual invulnerability.

The Boys is an American superhero web television series based on the comic book of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson. Developed by Eric Kripke for Amazon, it follows the eponymous team of vigilantes as they fight back against superpowered individuals who abuse their abilities.

 

The series premiered on July 26, 2019. Ahead of the premiere, Amazon renewed The Boys for a second season, which is set to premiere on September 4, 2020

 

The Boys is set in a universe where superpowered individuals are recognized as heroes by the general public and owned by powerful corporation Vought International, which markets and monetizes them. Outside of their heroic personas, most are arrogant and corrupt. The series primarily focuses on two groups: the Seven, Vought International's premier superhero team, and the titular Boys, vigilantes looking to keep the corrupted heroes under control.

 

The Boys are led by Billy Butcher, who despises all superpowered people, and the Seven are led by the egotistical and unstable Homelander. As a conflict ensues between the two groups, the series also follows the new members of each team: Hughie Campbell of the Boys, who joins the vigilantes after his girlfriend is killed by one of the Seven; and Annie January / Starlight of the Seven, a young and hopeful heroine forced to face the truth about the heroes she admires.