The Boys season 4 is here and, if you've already seen it, you'll know they really turned the depravity up to 11 this time. For those still playing catch-up (or just inꦫ need of a refresher ahead of season 5), our guide below fills you in on everything you need to ꧟know about the diabolical fourth season.

Post-release, we're here to take you through everything surrounding the s✅how from a complete cast list to a recap of the whole season. As well as the above, we also cover theories and insights, as well as del❀ivering our verdict on the Prime Video series with our review.

For more from the world of The Boys, there's also our guide to spin-off 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Gen V season 2.

The Boys season 4 release date and episode count

The Boys season 4 premiered on June 13, 2024, and consists of 8 episodes, all available to stream on Prime Video right now. For the full rundown see our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Boys season 4 episode list.

The Boys season 4 review

Our spoiler-free full season 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Boys season 4 review is in, with our writer Emily Murray giving it threꦉe stars. The verdict reads: "Although the cracks are really starting to emerge, The Boys head back into town with somewhat of a bang effectively delivering the show’s trademark mix of wicked humor and fascinating complex characters."

The Boys season 4 trailer

The Boys – Season 4 Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube

If you haven't already seen season 4 and would like a little spoiler-free taste, then check out the trailer above. In early 2024, we were treated to not one, but two trailers for The Boys season 4. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The first trailer gave us a lo♋ok at Jeffrey Dean Morgan's character, as well as the return of Black Noir, while the second trailer includes a Gen V cro𒉰ssover, showing the Guardians of Godolkin University, Sam and Cate.

The Boys season 4 cast

The Boys cast has grown quite a bit in the past few seasons, and many of our favorites did return for season 4, 🌸including the Boys themselves. That means there's Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Capone as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Karl Urban aಞs Billy Butcher, and new recruit Erin Moriarty as Starlight AKA Annie. 

Although numbers were dwindling at the start of the season, the Seven are also back, helmeꦅd by their fearsome leader Homelander, played by Anthony Starr. He added some new Supes to The Seven's roster this season (more on them later...) alongside Chase Crawford’s The Deep, Jessie T Usher’s A-Train, and Colby Minifie as Vought suck-up CEO Ashley. Home🎶lander also brought his son Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) into the limelight at the end of season 3, and he's back for season 4 too. 

In season 4, Victoria Neuman is set to become Vice President of the United States, which means Claudia Doumit is back, as is President-elect Bob Singer (Jim Beaver).  Jeffrey Dean Morgan is the biggest newcomer to The Boys season 4 cast. He plays 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Joe Kessler, an ex-CIA colleague of Butcher's.

We were also treated to a gaggle of Supes new and old, along with some major Gen V cameos and a celebrity appearance or two, including Tilda Swinton as The Deep's octopus lover 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ambrosius, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Will Ferrell playing himself. 

We have left out a few names below to keep from revealing any major spoilers, but for the full(ish) cast🔯 list, read on.

• Jack Quaid as Hughie
• Karl Urban as Billy Butcher
• Antony Starr as Homelander
• Erin Moriarty as Starlight
• Chase Crawford as The Deep
• Jessie T Usher as A-Train
• Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk
• Tomer Capone as Frenchie
• Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko
• Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett
• Cameron Crovetti as Ryan
• Claudia Doumit as Victoria Neuman
• Valorie Curry 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Firecracker
• Susan Heyward as Sister Sage
• Jim Beaver as President-elect Bob Singer
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Joe Kessler
• Tilda Swinton as Ambrosius
• Will Ferrell as himself

The Boys season 4 plot recap

Now we are heading into some real spoiler territory, so if you haven't seen The Boys season 4, turn back now. But if you are looking for a recap before watch🔯ing season 5, keep reading.

The Boys se✨ason 4 picks up where it left off at the end of season 3, with Butcher being given six months to live after taking a lethal dose of Compound V, Vought's Supe-engineering serum.

With time running out, he enlists the help of🍌 former CIA buddy Joe Kessler to help take Ryan away from Homelander and put an end to the leader of the Seven once and for all. This is all while Butcher, looking decidedly worse for wear, is hallucinating visions of his dead wife, Becca.

Homelander, meanwhꦚile, was cleared of the murder at the end of th🎃e third season. Despite growing increasingly tired of being surrounded by yes-men and sycophants, he has conspired with Neuman to assassinate President-elect Robert Singer.

The Seven has also introduced two new members: Sister Sage, the world's smartest person, and Firecracker, who is anything but and runs a grift peddling conspiracies to those willing to listen. It's technically t♒hree new faces, if ꧙you count the actor who has replaced Black Noir after his death.

The Boys are also being split apart bit by bit: Annie has renounced the Starlight name, opting instead to do good with her own charity; Hughie is dealing with his father's stroke; Kimiko is grappling with her own past once more, and Frenchie is in a relationship with Colin, a charity worker whose family he killed years a🥃go. On top of that, MM has recruited A-Train to be his reluctant man on the inside at Vought.

In the middle of the season, we are subjected to the show's most violent episode yet, as Homelander visits the lab where he was raised and wreaks havoc on the scientists who tested on him as a child. In the same episode, A-Train forms an alliance with the Boys, and Firecracker outs Starlight as a 'baby killer' for having an abortion. The two get into an altercation but, when the rest of the Boys come ꧟to Annie's aid, Butcher reveals his seriously strange tentacle powers. 

Then, the Boys head to Stan Edgar's messed up farm-turned-lab in search of the Virus, only to find it has leaked into the waterꦜ supply and turned the nearby farm animals into V'd-up killers. Butcher and his c𝔍rew manage to escape, but not before Billy and his imaginary friend abduct Neuman's lover and Vought scientist to produce more of the Virus. 

Towards the end of the season, we saw the Seven, Neuman, and the Boys attend a crazy alt-right cocktail party run by Supe billionaire Tek Knight. But the real debauche🍨ry was taking place downstairs in Knight's sex dungeon, where he and Ashley tormented Hughie – who was posing as Web Weaver at the time. Upstairs, though, Homelander is fleshing out his plans to get rid of Singer and invoke full Supe domination. 

In a bid to kill Singer, Homelander and his minions instruct a shapeshifting Supe to wack the president-elect. To get closer to the Boys &ndash🃏; and therefore Singer – the Shapeshifter abducts Annie and steals her identity, unbeknownst to Hughie,🌞 who continues to have a relationship with her and even accepts her marriage proposal.

In the blood-soaked finale, we see the Boys race to create another batch of the Virus as Neuman's exp꧂osure as a secret Supe by Homelander puts real pressure on things. Now in the light, Neuman turns to Hughie for help when Homelander threatens her life after the shapeshifter attempts to kill Singer but is stopped by the real Annie. However🐟, when Neuman arrives at the Boys' makeshift lab, she is killed by Butcher who now has full control of his powers. Oh, and elsewhere, Ryan kills Grace in another one of his outbursts. 

Despit🐼e the Boys' best efforts, in the end, Homelander remains on top as he takes full control of the new president and legal system in the US. Frenchie, Kimiko, Starlight, Huighie, and MM try to flee but are stopped by Supes and taken away. But that's not all: in a sneaky post-credits scene, it is revealed to Homelander that Soldier Boy is still alive, and lies unconscious iꦡn a glass tank at the CIA. 

For more in-depth🎉 run-throughs, see our full list of episode recaps below:

• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Boys season 4 episode 4 🍷recap and Eas🍌ter eggs
• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Boys season 4 e🎶pisode 5 recap and Easter eggs
• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Boys season 4 episode 6 rec🔥ap and Easter eggs
• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Bo🦋ys season 4 episode 7 recap and ꦆEaster eggs
• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Tꦬhe Boys season 4 episode 8 recap and Easter eggs

The Boys season 4 insight and explainers

There's been plenty to talk about with The Boys season 4, from hilarious Easter eggs you can 🐬access via Prime Video's X-ray feature to ⛦whether you need to watch Gen V to make the most of this new season.

Below, you'll find our latest guides to the new se🌄ason.

• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Homelander's dark past, explained
• The Boys season 4 takes🙈 full advantage of Prime Video’s most overlooked feature, and the result is hilarious
• Do I need to watch Gen V before T⛎he Boys season 4?
• Who is the new Black Noir in The Boys season 4? His return fꦕrom t♐he dead explained
• Our writer’s opinion piece - The Boys season 4 plays heavy on cameos, �🅰�and I'm worried it's becoming what it set out to mock
• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Who is Tek Knight and how the billionaire Supe 🀅is way wor꧒se in the comics 
• 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Who is Webweaver? 
• Is this surprise A-list appearance 🧜in The Boys season 4 the show's b✤est cameo yet?

Is The Boys season 4 the final season?

In June 2024, ahead of the launch of season 4, Kripke announced that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:show would be ending with the upcoming season 5, which was giv🀅en the green light this summer. In a , the showrunner revealed: "Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax."

Not only this, but we know that Gen V season 2 is on the way as well as a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:potential Mexico-set spin-off.

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