The Reel Rejects - THE BOYS Season 5 Episode 5 REVIEW– [SPOILER] WAS THIS CLOSE TO MAKING IT OUT ALIVE!!

Episode Date: April 29, 2026

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Apparel That was a thick episode, guys That was a lot That was a big boy All right Firecracker Terror Terror

Black Do you are Soldier Boy Were the main ones And then bookending it With Sister Sage And bookending it with fire with Soldier Boy was the last one

Soldier Boy's last one but then yeah they Oh that guy I see you're saying A fireacker tail Okay Okay Have you learned anything about Christianity You know only that it's the only way

Yeah it's praise homely It's also the homelander way I gotta get the Homelander Bible That is beautiful I hope they sell it I hope Amazon sells a sacrilegious Bible Based off their show like the levels of commerce That would imply I would absolutely buy it.

And I hope they commit to the bid and take time to make a Bible that is fitting of the homelander way. The brand new test of it in AI would be so, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Full of dashes and full of hem dash, baby. Yes. All right, well, okay, so I take it. Let's just talk one character at a time then. That's probably the best.

Let's go do the best way that we could keep this efficient. Terror did not eat the chocolate cake. Oh my god. He's okay. Um, it's okay. Well, Firecracker is a character that is, um, that was interesting to have like an empathetic experience, but Firecracker, honestly. How'd you feel with that, Coy? I think it's really smart that the show makes sure that no one feels one dimensional. Uh, because the show is so satirical and so mean, it'd be a lot easier to have at least a character be a villain.

And, you know, they've done a really good job making you empathize even with Homelander at times. So I think it was really smart. before they killed Firecracker to give her some redemptive qualities. I also think it really shows through her past transgressions all she ever wanted was something to idolize

and to feel the warmth of love. And that to me ties into what fuck there's no way for me to say it's not sounding like an asshole. What I see as some of the elements of why people need religion. And to me,

that can be a good thing and there are many places. Well there are many places where religion is a wonderful thing for people to find warmth and closure and belonging. And purpose. And purpose. There are also times when it's used as

a crutch, an outlet, a vice, a excuse, a reason for all of your evils and you can use it either direction. You have a lot more adjectives for the ladder. I tried to be exactly five each. I try. I

tried. There's more quantity on one side. I feel a certain way. It was nice to see that someone that grew up in perhaps a place like Florida would perhaps need the want someone to love them enough because of a certain void within them. And that would lead to her relationships like she had. It contextualizes her wanting to belong and her wanting to belong. and her wanting to appease and her wanting someone stronger than her to like push her down into

something small and want to aspire like a lot of times you see certain kinds of people glob on to strong people because they think they're strong but it's actually them revealing how much they need strength versus their own like she's always been a strong character she's always been full of all this conviction but i like the context of her being someone that just wants to be loved. And I think that really fills the character out in a way that is much stronger than just letting her die with all that hate. Like we see where her hate comes from. We see what she's willing to betray. We see the layers of her devotion. And if you're able to devote yourself to however old she was to Christ, then it only stands to reason that you could brainwash yourself again and devote

yourself to another entity. And that one actually loved her back in a more direct way than symbolically. So I liked that the character that we got to see the eye line of devotion through that got rapidly more insane had the DNA of their past. That also gave us a little bit of

remorse and layering. You did a great job there. It was so hard to stay kind. You did a great job. That was... Woo! Did a great job. Yeah, clipouts. You did a great job there. That was impressive.

The way you towed that. line. This show makes my job so easy. Hey, man. John, why were you crying? That was a really effective scene. That was a really tragic, heartbreaking scene because that was a really beautiful episode for Firecracker, I think, because, yeah, it's just so sad.

Because, like, clearly, you know, we talk every week about the ills of religion and the downsides of God-fearing, which this episode certainly in Homelanders' whole crusade right now certainly zeroes in on the concept of God-fearing. But to have that conversation with her pastor and, you know, to see the human inside of her in a real context and then watch that decision happen and like you called out, you know, watch her then use the last crumbling of her soul to fuel the ruse is just so fucked up. It's so sad. And it's like mean in a true way. And it's tragic in a true way. And it speaks to this like fear that faith can put in you of, you know, yeah, you are faced with this all powerful being that is kind of doing the whole like, I am the evidence. I am

presented before you, you know, you have even less reason to doubt because I homelander am here. and so uh yeah those two like a one two punch of scenes I would say like that's a a real standout moment across the show as far as I'm concerned because yeah like we get

this character who's been such a great addition but you know in the full pomp and circumstance of the pageantry of all the stuff and in the inner workings of Vought and all that shit and in one episode you get the human of that character ironically whose actual name I cannot call to memory but yeah watching her play that scene, which was just beautiful acting.

Because you can see everything happening, and you want so bad in that moment for her to take it valiant stand and die much sooner. And then the end, you know, she throws away Jesus and it's just so sad. It's just continually so, so sad. And for then her to have this earnest moment at the end is beautifully heartbreaking. Because, like, she chose all this. She sold her soul, you know. That also, the throwing out of the figure felt,

felt very topical to the kind of hoops we're seeing people that claim to be righteous make amends for horrors for. I thought that moment was really interesting because, you know, we've got what the people that watch Fox News and it's ilk that are Sunday, you know, goers. And those same people are like, well, she deserved it. Or like, you know, the stuff that, you know, gets posted on truth, social and everything. And how the symbology of throwing out, that figure is so indicative of today. Like the people that claim, you know, on one day they'll go and say they love their neighbor

and they want to help people. And then the next day, be like, ice is really just making sure. Like, it's, I thought that moment was really as much a tell of our times as last week's, you know, a timely post that reflected the episode. Very true. Very true.

You both make really good points all around for her. I'm really happy that you got to have this episode. And I'm again echoing some parts of last week of how they do, they've been, they've seemingly gone out of their way since they're going so hardcore at religion way more than like this whole season thematically and Homelanders journey is so much a conversation and an attack on religion that they have interjected characters to help balance to say. hey, not everyone in religion is necessarily a bad individual. Now, I don't really know what the Reverend is like, you know. I don't know what that character was like in his church. It's the same one that Starlight must have gone to or no, no, no, no. They were like pageantry together.

They weren't in church together. Either way, I don't know what that church was like. But her conversation with the Reverend would imply that he at least seems to be more of a good-hearted kind of individual, you know, he was able to discern through some other bullshit. And last week we had Starlight's dad showing good acts of what a good Christian guy can do. And now we're seeing another one who was asking to do something good for his people. It is his flock for his church, you know. And to see what was going on with her that she would have to, she was already part of the wave that would sell themselves. What we're doing politically is in the

name of God and Jesus and stuff. But what happens when you're being asked to completely conform your entire belief system in the servitude of one man, which we are seeing happen a lot right now, where people are sacrificing their actual belief system that they grew up with that is like really instilled in them to praise some individual here who's more of a dictator, not really a leader, you know, I was so happy with, I would never shed a tear for her just because of the kind of individual she is like how far along that she has gone already like from the time we've met her

and all the horrible things that she's done and the kind of character that she represents but I thought it was I always appreciate an episode that takes the time to psychologically break down who this person is why they are the way they are and be able to get us an understanding

of what probably put them down this path because like it made a lot of sense that she would like she's already so far gone that I didn't expect her to possibly turn her back on Homeland or in that moment because of everything that she's already done in the name of God and Jesus and whatever and her little political platform

and how she's used it to really do some horrible things. This was actually her full character arc. This is her full character descent. The fact that she gave up every part of her anything that represented good and to the very end where she

had the opportunity to walk away. She literally, the homelander wasn't going to kill her. And instead, She begged. Yeah. She pleaded. And that got her killed because she fully gave in when she had one last, like,

Homelander was given her one last opportunity to just go back to who you were, you know? So I love the, I love the depravity of it. Oh, yeah. I love the darkness of it a lot. It's really telling. Brainwashed or true believers is like a lot of what you're kind of, yeah, it's like dealing with here. And, uh, yeah.

Yeah. We have to keep moving so much to talk about. talking about it's only one section. Fucking terror. That was probably the least interesting part of the episode of me. Still good. I think they just had to have the boys. Neat.

Yeah. Neat. We needed the boys. I think it was a fun little comic nod without being too overbearing. I think, you know, people that know terror from the comic got excited. Like we had a moment of, oh, that's exciting. But I think it was the best use of a dog in this was we got to see how the boys are when they're not performing for the boys. Sure.

I really liked that we got to see how. Camico was really feeling with Frenchy and how Frenchy would be without Camico around. And we got to have a few human elements between Mother's Milk and Homeland and a butcher that we wouldn't have in front of the rest of the team. And so like those dynamics I thought were really interesting. Well, there was also motivated moments like you see that the V1 butcher gets on board for that to give that a shot. And I think the stuff of Mother's Milk was really interesting how he this is like for seasons. he's like, God,

they're better off without me or, you know, whatever. But for him to declare I'm better off without them too. Yeah. And what that broke down. It's like,

we've seen how much mother's milk has changed. And that, so I thought those scenes were important. I do wish they kind of just utilize, like try to make a terror adventure. Yeah.

That's what I was more excited for. That's how it opened. Yeah, because that's what everyone else's adventure is. And instead it was like, let's just catch up with the boys, which is good stuff that I think could have been implemented

in another episode. And utilize the opportunity you have when you have fucking terror here. I'm like right in the middle because I like what you pointed out of like, oh yeah, when everyone's just hanging out casually, but I would have almost preferred if they went further down the line of like, we're mostly with terror and the boys are all like pretty well in the background. Like and always have them maybe weave in or out, but do, yeah,

do something completely terror centric. It was mainly just let's go to. We just need to check it with it. Let's just go to terror. It'll be weird if we don't. This isn't really nothing about terror. The fact that terror's here. Terror wants chocolate and to keep on,

keeping on with Homeland. Easy peasy. Sister Sage, I love that she's looking for full on world collapse here. Yeah, that's super villain shit. Well, and it's biblical shit.

It's very biblical because, you know, that's the whole, you know, the false, you know, profit will come and hail in the end of times and all that good stuff, you know? How sister sage of her.

Absolutely. But how you can still be manwielding about the whole thing. It's cool. It goes back to her bigger plan. She's always said there'd be another phase. I imagine this was part of the scripting when they had Sister Sage

talk about what her bigger plan would always be. It lines up. I like the misdirect of it because when they first, in the first parts of this season, it would be like, Sister Sage is not, you know, I'm bored with Homelander.

But I don't think anyone was really anticipating that she has a plan even worse than Homelanders. Yeah. And I love that it's just that twilight zone is just like it's it's almost like the anti that dr manhattan bit that that everyone clips out like i'm tired of these people in the tango of their lives and i want them all dead so that i can just be rid of them yeah which is uh yeah quite fascinating and that's

that scene with the the two heads was that they meant they're so perfect like that was so well done she had that one moment she's like talk her like taking her own actually she was trying to like actually see her yeah it was really well acted yeah good and and fun for colby minifie to get just you know, more fun stuff to do after so long. But the Soldier Boy section. Yeah. That was about as thick as. Got him.

We got him back. We got the reunion. We did it. I also can't believe that Soldier Boy is like, he drank the Kool-Aid. He's like helping Homelander. I know. He can't. He can't kill his own son.

Yeah. So sad. Well, it's like they've never bonded as father and son in the season where he was actually trying to kill him. Right. And this time they've had. actually had time to bond and as much as he judges him and gets annoyed by him and finds him repulsive in so many ways he's getting to know him at the end of the day yeah spending quality

time as father and son yeah as he gets at the end of the day he also sees that his son is like pleading for daddy yeah so it's going to work on some weird subconscious level you know what an interesting smattering of people like it's set rogan i was kind of hoping evan gouldberg would show up too but Seth Rogen and Crispin's Plus is fun This is the end throwbacks with C-Rob Will Forte being in there was always delightful Like it was an interesting group Seth Rogen, this might have been his third cameo

I think in this series The cameo once When he was promoting some movie in the Vought world And then he was the guy who was like Dittling himself The two Who was Soldier Boy's ex-girlfriend's name? Oh, a fire girl

Crimson Countess yeah and now he gets to just play himself. So that was fun. But the Jared Padaliki moments, it was, there is something pretty cool about just, they play off each other so well. Yeah.

And I like, I like that you get, they gave him the opportunity to show a completely different size. So I think that's part of the fun of getting Jared Javadalecki back to be reunited with him, is that they knew they give,

you have to give them at least one scene to themselves. They gotta have like two scenes together. But like Jared, for those who don't know Supernatural, Jarap Adelike's character, their brothers in the show is, is, uh, he's more the good one.

He's the goodhearted one, the cleaner one. You know, so to see a down on his luck talking dirty doing coke. Yeah. There's, there is fun to be had with that. But if someone who's not, I only know them from cons. But what did you think about their appearance here? It was cool because I,

I know them from like the con culture. Like they're, they're icons of cons because they care so much about the fandoms. They were like actually invested for 12 hours. They bought their own jet. so they could like get to more cons between shooting like they're their legends in the space oh yeah they literally have a jet that is so they can leave filming on like a friday make it to a con Friday night do the con go back to work that's just them yeah um yeah and and everything i've heard about them is

been like how iconic they are too supernatural but in my experience i just think them's two guys that really really love fandom and really care about fans so i i have the utmost respect for the two of them as these guys that didn't let this be a one-note thing that that's that's you know that ended and they made it something they were known for in a positive way. Like sometimes you see people at cons that are like con-lifers and you're like, oh, they're not happy to be here. This is what they had to do for money. And these guys are the opposite. They're like, we will fly in from a shoot. Yeah. And we're going to play a set before. Yeah. We're going to hang out. Yeah. We're going to bring kids on stage and like we're going to make these people's lives. Like I, they've got a really cool way to

handle fandom. And so to see them do something within fandom that I'm invested in without the context of supernatural was really fun because I didn't. get the subversions, I just got to see, oh, those, those guys that seemed like they're real life friends. And it was like, it was joy. Do you like the plot line? Uh, it worked for me. I don't think it was like a distraction, but I definitely don't feel like it was, it wasn't an A plot. I think it was smart to make it the B plot. Like, it didn't feel as pandering. Yeah. Because I was worried when I didn't watch Supernatural, when the showrunner of Supernatural is like, guys, we're going to bring the whole cast of supernatural back. And I was like, hope that doesn't feel weird. And since it was the B plot, it didn't.

It felt like a logical place for it to go. Well, I kind of wish they didn't reveal that because they're not really in this show. Yeah, that was a bit. That's it. It's over now. Like, Misha Collins is a big part of supernatural. Okay. And to have him, like, it makes sense that he would be third character because he's not one of the main two leads of supernatural, but he's a big part of the show.

Still, like, to announce that, it would. And then it's like a 20 minute. Barely in the show. Yeah. especially Misha Collins said to make all like a big deal about it like they announced it before they were filming it yeah they announced the season four

they made a big deal out of it yeah and so part of me is like I wish they never mentioned anything and let that be an actual surprise because then it would be a much easier to chew up as expect as opposed to like expecting or wanting it was a closed set they could have gotten away with it they definitely could have like they were the ones that said it's not like we saw it like they were in a house

I really had fun with it I really enjoyed it you know it's like I just kind of wish it wasn't revealed yield to that way. Yeah. Because it is the kind of show where you could plausibly go like, maybe we'll see Jaredadelecki a couple of times. Yeah. He's not going to obviously be like the main character season, but yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I would agree. It's like it's, and it's interesting too because they have a bunch of other cameos around them, which both helps. But I could also see how you could like, I kind of wish it was just like them in the spotlight. But it was a big cameo meant.

Like that was that whole stuff was like 10 came. It was like, what if this is the end, but with supernatural? And it's all in the universe of the boys for like a hot. minute, which, you know, quadruple, no, quintuple a trained. Got robbed it five times. Oh my God. Black Mar episode. Black Lamar moment. Oh, my God.

Oh, shit. Yeah. That was very fun. I feel so bad for the director. On par with his final destination death for sure. I did. I did really. I think they're having fun subversions with stuff like that where at first you're like, oh, he

hates being here. And then the second he starts to like really aggrandize the note. theater. And then they were like really bond over the art and stuff like that. Like that's, I feel like that was just the right size and proportion. I'm like, it's nice to get a specific noir thing, even though it's very much of a side quest and it's a bit of a non sequitur, but also it was like a kind of fun diversion that didn't feel like you could trade it for more substantial time.

Yeah, I don't feel like those 10 minutes would have been served better elsewhere. It was a fun. And it's cool to see Blackmore, the actor, get to play. Because he's been Black Marr since season one I feel like we've seen his face 20 minutes total in 15 We're in this episode Yeah

Season 4 is this Black New 1 right Because he died in 3 Yeah But in real life Like in our in our reality That actor Because I did a season one set visit Is it the same guy

That guy was season 1 set That makes it such a watch more fun fact So I went to I went to Vancouver or Toronto I went to Canada That's so cool Yeah and that was an incredible And what's funny

little inside thing. What's funny is he amongst them was like the guy that wanted to talk Meisder and Stanislavski. Like when I talked to him, he's like the actor actor and that's the guy that was season one when I went to set. So for him to play the actor in season five. Who's playing the

replacement? Oh, that's so funny. I feel like that's literally a joke for like the 20 people that probably know. That's beautiful. I love that. Yeah. I had no clue. Shit. I don't watch any behind Yeah, that guy's like Norseons one. That is crazy. Yeah. Oh, that makes a way more rewarding. Well, yeah,

his storyline was fun. And I think with the director, the director moments, but it was cool, like a lot of times when we see scenes from that, from his movies, from within this world, they are these like super sentimental, cheesy Hollywood scenes. The soft lighting the music swell. Yeah, so to have

his interactions in his real life world be in the kind of movies that he would make. Yeah, that's a great... Kind of like the sepia toe. It's just his toe. Yeah, that's a really good The way they shoot that whole thing.

They mute the colors for terror. They soup up the melancholy with him. Yeah. I was really impressed by the writing of this episode and the structuring. Like, these are the kind of episodes that are in television. They were, I'm glad they decided to take a gamble with doing a really uniquely structured episode

with the different POVs. I was going to kick out of like when they mess with time in an episode or when they decided to do this multiple POV stuff. So that were you getting like a vignette of stuff. And I think the structure was really cool. have it kick off with firecracker and then have the soldier boy ending lead into what leads to the ending of firecrackers yeah like the consequences of because like soldier boy just like i was doing her and uh yeah pillow talk stuck but it's like so he was just being dismissive of it i don't

think you thought anything of the i really don't feel like soldier boy was thinking it was going to lead to that yeah i certainly didn't watch it and i was like oh that's why she gets killed yeah yeah this this was really fun because also, and you know, like this structure of the episode, having Jared and them, it feels like one of those things where you're like, it's the end of the show, so like, let's use an opportunity to get creative

and do something that like maybe we've wanted to do or like do some things, pay some fan stuff off, but in like a really fun way. It doesn't feel like it's too outside the purview of what they're already trying to accomplish in the stakes of the season. True. I also really enjoyed the red scare commentary. It was a very

small moment, but like, you know, the lists that people kept where they rated out people at the time when it was like, Communists or invaded Hollywood. That was a fun little beat that went into like some Black Labs Matter commentary. They did that beat like in two minutes, I thought, really funny. Very true. All right, guys. Well, that was a fun time.

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