Brutal: ‘The Boys’ Season Finale Violently Kills a Shocking Character
(Warning: Spoilers for The Boys season finale.)
For the briefest of moments, it seemed like the penultimate season of The Boys might end on a hopeful note. "If we’re ever going to win against monsters, I think we need to start acting human," Hughie Campbell (Jack Quaid) implores his Boys cohort in the finale. Unfortunately, Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) missed this pep talk, as the Prime Video series continues its quest to spill the most fake blood on any TV show in history.
Even by the standards of the previous three seasons, the series hit gory new heights in Thursday’s finale, from the sound and visuals of Frenchie (Tomer Capone) sawing Kimiko's (Karen Fukuhara) leg off to prevent a virus from killing her to Hughie's dad, Hugh (Simon Pegg), accidentally walking through other hospital patients. There are some things you can't unsee, like Hugh standing in the middle of a bedridden person as their intestines fall to the ground. Ain't no doctor who can fix this. In the finale alone, The Deep (Chace Crawford) punches his hand through someone's head, and a shapeshifter masquerading as Starlight (Erin Moriarty) bites a man's throat out—among other acts of violence.