By Nick Nitkowski 

Well, everyone… here we are. We have reached the end of the popular superhero series, “The Boys”. When “The Boys” premiered on Amazon Prime in July of 2019, what a simpler time that was, I didn’t know anything about it. But when I heard that Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were involved, I had a feeling that this would be something I wanted to watch and from the very first episode, I was shocked and I was hooked and I had been watching ever since. After all that time, we have finally reached the end, the most important part of any series that can make or break the entire thing. So, how was the final season of “The Boys?”

This final season still provides what you’d come to expect from the series. Lots of blood and loaded with plenty of WTF moments that everyone has come to know and love throughout the series. It’s one of my favorite things about the show, just because it’s rare these days for me to be shocked by anything that’s shown on screen and even now at the end, “The Boys” still managed to shock me plenty of times. It also still provides plenty on-the-nose satire of the modern world that has proven to be less time and time again in this current age we’re living in. It’s just very insane to see how much stuff they put in this show as an outlandish joke only for some of it to actually be happening in real life and the people that they’re poking fun at still don’t get it. If you know, then you know what I’m talking about, and I’ll leave it at that.

However, that being said, as I was watching this final season, I did feel as though the season was struggling to reach an overarching conclusion. And when the series did reach its conclusion, I thought that it felt a little too confined within itself instead of being a grand spectacle. Especially since the final episode was presented in theaters in 4DX, which led me to think that it was going to be a very grand finale. But as we inched closer and closer to the finale, with each passing episode, it didn’t feel like it was leading to something big like it probably should have.

The 4DX experience for the final episode was fun. It’s always fun to watch something on the big screen with people who are just as excited as you are cheering and reacting to big moments that you just can’t get on your living room sofa. Along with rocking chairs that move in sync with the movie. I’d say about 75% of the final episode was talking, and therefore, the chairs were stationary, but when that 25% of action kicked in, it was quite the ride. Sometimes, it was pretty intense, especially when Daveed Digs’ Oh Father character showed up, blasting people away with his voice. It was just something you had to be there for to experience it.

Overall, am I satisfied with the final season of “The Boys”? I’d say that I was, but I can’t help but wish for a more “grand” finale. One that was bigger and more of a spectacle. But the filmmakers themselves did say that they were working with a very specific budget. If that’s true, I can’t help but feel as though Amazon should have definitely gone all in with this final season. I’ve also never read the source material, so I have no idea if this finale did it any justice or not. All I can say is that this is the ending that we got, and it was certainly better than most endings that we’ve gotten from other popular shows. I don’t think fans will be disappointed with how the series ends, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they found themselves wanting more. It wasn’t Super, but I did think it was good, and sometimes, it’s important enough to just be good.

4 stars