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  1. Episode 8 You Found Me
    The Boys Season Finale Recap: Masters of the Universe A strong finale ends on a cliffhanger that sets the table for a very different second season.
  2. Episode 7 The Self-Preservation Society
    The Boys Recap: Injustice As Butcher’s back story gets filled out, Starlight’s bad week just keep getting worse.
  3. Episode 6 The Innocents
    The Boys Recap: Fallen Angels The best episode yet finally strikes a balance of character, humor, and plot, and creates legitimate anticipation for what comes next.
  4. Episode 5 Good for the Soul
    The Boys Recap: New Gods The Believe Expo sets the stage for Starlight to pull back the curtain on superheroism and the false Gods that come with it.
  5. Episode 4 The Female of the Species
    The Boys Recap: Danger Girl The investigation into Compound V and whatever is going on with A-Train leads the Boys to a mute killing machine.
  6. Episode 3 Get Some
    The Boys Recap: X-Factor The meta commentary and universe-building have been fun, but it’s time to get to the meat of this story.
  7. Episode 2 Cherry
    The Boys Recap: Damage Control A talky episode finds the series trying to develop its own voice as it moves further away from the source material.
  8. Episode 1 The Name of the Game
    The Boys Series Premiere Recap: What If … The new Amazon series introduces us to the dark side of a world, not that different from our own, in which absolute superpower corrupts absolutely.
  1. Episode 8 What I Know
    The Boys Season-Finale Recap: Thoughts and Prayers What will motivate Billy Butcher now?
  2. Episode 7 Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker
    The Boys Recap: What a Wonderful World The often-poisonous connection between parent and offspring powers a strong episode that sets up a violent conclusion to season two.
  3. Episode 6 The Bloody Doors Off
    The Boys Recap: Down the Road and Back Again Hm, Stormfront and Lamplighter’s super-experimentation feels familiar somehow … Oh. Right.
  4. Episode 5 We Gotta Go Now
    The Boys Recap: Power Couple The Boys’ new weekly release schedule doesn’t do a transitional, wheel-spinning episode like this one any favors.
  5. Episode 4 Nothing Like it in the World
    The Boys Recap: Dancing With Myself Homelander is having a full-blown identity crisis, and dealing with it in typical Homelander fashion.
  6. Episode 3 Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men
    The Boys Recap: Second Wind The Seven has a new lunatic in the big chair. God help us all.
  7. Episode 2 Proper Preparation and Planning
    The Boys Recap: God Complex Since Homelander lost power with the Seven, he needs to reclaim it with his son.
  8. Episode 1 The Big Ride
    The Boys Season-Premiere Recap: Storm Clouds The season begins with the Seven down to only five and Homelander stepping into Stillwell’s role — or so he thinks.
  1. Episode 8 The Instant White-Hot Wild
    The Boys Season-Finale Recap: Superheroes Aren’t Always Good It was always a shaky idea to center a season of The Boys on a plot to take out Homelander.
  2. Episode 7 Here Comes A Candle to Light You to Bed
    The Boys Recap: Knowing You’re the Hero Homelander and Butcher continue to unravel ahead of their big showdown.
  3. Episode 6 Herogasm
    The Boys Recap: The Top of the Food Chain “Herogasm” is a culmination of most of the character arcs this season, upping the stakes for the rest of the season.
  4. Episode 5 The Last Time to Look on This World of Lies
    The Boys Recap: No More Secrets With Soldier Boy on the scene and Homelander’s continued spiraling to the top, The Boys is heating up.
  5. Episode 4 Glorious Five Year Plan
    The Boys Recap: Bad Product And just like that, the Seven mutiny is over before it even began.
  6. Episode 3 Barbary Coast
    The Boys Recap: Down for the Cause Despite a few excellent moments, The Boys is retreading old ground and overlooking too many characters.
  7. Episode 2 The Only Man In the Sky
    The Boys Recap: The Real Hero It’s Homelander’s party, and he can go Nazis if he wants to.
  8. Episode 1 Payback
    The Boys Season-Premiere Recap: Peacetime What does peacetime look like for The Boys?
  1. Episode 8 Assassination Run
    The Boys Season-Finale Recap: New World, New Rules A somewhat stagnant season ends with the grimmest finale in The Boys’s run.
  2. Episode 7 The Insider
    The Boys Recap: Lee Harvey Oswald Have you ever wondered what an insurrection led by Homelander and the Seven would look like?
  3. Episode 6 Dirty Business
    The Boys Recap: Alt-right Cocktail Party It’s not a surprise that the richest and evilest people in America get so horrifically filthy.
  4. Episode 5 Beware the Jabberwock, My Son
    The Boys Recap: Bread and Circuses Whatever joy there is to be gained from this week’s gnarly farm outing is lost with a depressing culmination of the Hugh Sr. arc.
  5. Episode 4 Wisdom of the Ages
    The Boys Recap: First Pebble Down a Mountain Has The Boys gotten too bleak? Where is the joy in satirizing politics and violence?
  6. Episode 3 We’ll Keep the Red Flag Flying Here
    The Boys Recap: Popularity Is Power It’s always fun when The Boys goes espionage thriller mode.
  7. Episode 2 Life Among the Septics
    The Boys Recap: People Need a Symbol We’re doing a lot of trauma bonding this season.
  8. Episode 1 Department of Dirty Tricks
    The Boys Season-Premiere Recap: Toys for Our Amusement The Boys opens the season with an extremist conspiracy to overthrow an election. Where have we heard that one before?
  1. Episode 8 Blood and Bone
    The Boys Series-Finale Recap: Never Meet Your Heroes The Boys ends on a frustratingly predictable conclusion that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Marvel movie.
  2. Episode 7 The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother’s Milk
    The Boys Recap: No Room for Heresy With one episode left, the series takes a moment to celebrate the supporting characters who are the heart of the show.
  3. Episode 6 Though the Heavens Fall
    The Boys Recap: The Natural Order to Things The Boys grapple with the prospect of existential loss as the series prepares for the big showdown with Homelander (and subsequent spinoff series).
  4. Episode 5 One-Shots
    The Boys Recap: God’s Chosen People This week’s vignette structure gives us much-needed time with the underserved characters and serves a bit of fun before the series starts to wrap up.
  5. Episode 4 King of Hell
    The Boys Recap: The Reason We Fight It’s interesting to get a glimpse at the everyday people dealing with Homelander’s America.
  6. Episode 3 Every One of You Sons of Bitches
    The Boys Recap: A Proper Chat The race to find V-One and stop Homelander from achieving immortality is officially on.
  7. Episode 2 Teenage Kix
    The Boys Recap: An Age of Wonder The return of Soldier Boy allows Homelander to resolve his daddy issues once and for all.
  8. Episode 1 Fifteen Inches of Sheer Dynamite
    The Boys Season-Premiere Recap: Dead Men Walking Homelander has gone full Trump with “freedom camps” and the childish urge to punish anyone who makes fun of him.

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