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The Boys Season-Finale Recap: New World, New Rules


A somewhat stagnant season ends with the grimmest finale in The Boys’s run.

As we see more and more pieces about this show’s downturn in quality — this one might be a cathartic read if you’re fed up — I find myself reflecting on the way my own feelings have evolved from skepticism to pleasant surprise with a few stops at annoyance and distaste in between. Annie was a bit of a bully as an adolescent, brainwashed by her mom and the ruthless pageant circuit, but her struggle to make peace with that past doesn’t really compare to the baggage Frenchie and Kimiko are dealing with. Shifter easily reads their body language and makes her attack, murdering several Secret Service agents and breaking Kimiko’s neck before finally falling at the hands of the recently escaped real Annie.

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