Prime Video has released three episodes of The Boys Season 4 today, followed by weekly episodes leading up to the epic season finale next month.
The Boys is a one-of-a-kind series offering a fun and irreverent twist on the superhero genre. It explores what happens when superheroes, as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and as revered as gods, abuse their superpowers instead of using them for good.
The Boys, a group of vigilantes, are on a relentless mission to stop the corrupt superheroes. They continue their heroic quest to expose the truth about The Seven and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers their dirty secrets.
The first three episodes of the fourth season begin with Election Night, and President-Elect Bob Singer and VP Victoria Neuman are throwing a party to celebrate their victory. But the mission goes horribly wrong when The Boys crash the party to assassinate Neuman.
Now the clock is ticking to finish the job before the election is certified on January 6th, when Neuman will be one head-pop away from the Presidency.
Meanwhile, Butcher’s health has badly deteriorated from his Temp V use in Season 3, and he’s running out of time in his quest to save Ryan, who’s fallen further under Homelander’s malign influence.
Having officially left The Seven, Annie is trying to distance herself from the role of “Starlight” and just be Annie January — but leaving the supersuit behind is proving more challenging than she thought. After a family crisis, Hughie gets a visit from the last person he ever expected to see again.
When Homelander finds grey hair, he’s confronted with his mortality and worries about the world he will leave behind for Ryan. So he recruits Sage, a superhero and the world’s most intelligent person, and with her help, Homelander becomes more dangerous than ever.
The Boys follow Sage to the conspiracy theory convention, TruthCon, to find out why she’s meeting with a bombastic Supe named Firecracker, who has a vendetta against Starlight. Meanwhile, Ryan gets his first public (but staged) save, stopping some bank robbers — but it goes tragically off script when Homelander shows up to take the spotlight from his son.
Homelander inducts two new members into The Seven: Sage and Firecracker. As part of the personnel changes, Sage will effectively become Vought’s CEO, relegating Ashley to the role of corporate mascot.
Mother’s Milk also recruits an important new source for intel at Vought. Frenchie gets high to cope with the guilt of lying to Colin while he accompanies Kimiko on a mission to confront her own demons. And we get into the Christmas spirit with the spectacular ice-skating musical Vought on Ice.
The Boys is based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, who also serve as executive producers. It was developed by executive producer and showrunner Eric Kripke.
