The Boys S5E7 is officially the Game of Thrones Season 8 moment for this show. No action, just filler.
I’m just going to be completely honest here: "The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man Called Mother's Milk" was extremely bad. We have exactly one episode left in the entire series, and instead of the scorched-earth war Kripke has been promising us for seven years, we got an hour of pure wheel-spinning.
Here is why this episode proves the show has completely lost the plot:
- The Endless "Oh Father" Church Talk: Why did we spend a massive chunk of a penultimate episode watching Daveed Diggs rehearse a musical number for the "Democratic Church of America"? Homelander just took V-One, is basically immortal, and ripped the President in half. The stakes should be at an all-time high. Instead, the pacing grinds to a halt so we can watch Oh Father run a boring focus group with psychic supes. It's pointless exposition and dead air.
- Zero Meaningful Action: We've been waiting for Butcher and Homelander to clash. Instead, Butcher and Hughie spend half their screen time tied up in chairs doing absolutely nothing after getting captured by Synapse.
- Wasting Soldier Boy (Again): They bring him back, have him complain about Klara and tell Homelander "it's not you, it's me," and then Homelander just stuffs him right back into the cryochamber freezer. What was the narrative point of this other than cheap fan service?
- Frenchie's Rushed Exit: After seasons of buildup, Frenchie gets casually murdered by Homelander just to serve as a distraction for Kimiko and Sage. It didn't feel earned; it felt like the writers artificially clearing the board because they ran out of time.
This is exactly what happened with the end of Game of Thrones. The writers clearly realized they don't have enough actual plot to fill the runtime before the final showdown, so they padded it out with convoluted side quests, mid-IQ Sage lobotomy scenes, and church filler.
If the finale next week doesn't pull off a massive miracle, this show's legacy is going to tank exactly like Westeros did.
