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The fifth and final season of Prime Video\u2019s superhero satire series, The Boys, crosses the halfway mark this week, after a pretty wild fourth episode saw our heroes very nearly tear each other to pieces. The final three episodes of the final season will drop in May. <\/p>\n
Things are dire for our motley crew. Homelander (Antony Starr) and his crew of nefarious supes, now with the full backing of both Vought and the US government, are facing off against Starlight (Erin Moriarty), Billy Butcher (Karl Urban) and the rest of the Boys one last time before it\u2019s curtain call. <\/p>\n
Read on to find out everything you need to know about The Boys Season 5, Episode 5 plus the full season release schedule<\/a> and more.<\/p>\n What Time Does \u2018The Boys\u2019 Season 5, Episode 5 Come To Prime Video?<\/p>\n New episodes of The Boys release on Wednesdays on Amazon Prime Video at midnight Pacific Time. This is a global release, so Episode 5 will drop at the same time in every region Prime Video is available. Here\u2019s what that translates to in your timezone:<\/p>\n US \u2014 Wednesday, April 29 at 12am PT \/ 3am ETCanada \u2014 Wednesday, April 29 at 12am PT \/ 3am ETUK \u2014 Wednesday, April 29 at 8amIndia \u2014 Wednesday, April 29 at 12:30pm ISTSingapore \u2014 Wednesday, April 29 at 3pm SGTAustralia \u2014 Wednesday, April 29 at 5pm AEDTNew Zealand \u2014 Wednesday, April 29 at 7pm NZDT<\/p>\n The fifth episode clocks in at 1 hour and 5 minutes, the longest of the season so far. The rest of Season 5\u2019s episodes all clock in just above one hour, though we don\u2019t know how long the Season 5 finale will be. Here\u2019s the release schedule:<\/p>\n Episode 5 \u2013 April 29Episode 6 \u2013 May 6Episode 7 \u2013 May 13Episode 8 \u2013 May 20What\u2019s Happened In \u2018The Boys\u2019 So Far This Season?<\/p>\n The Boys<\/p>\n Credit: Prime VideoEpisode 1<\/p>\n Read a full recap of Episodes 1 & 2 right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n One year has passed since the events of Season 4<\/a> and Homelander has solidified his hold over both Vought and the nation. A puppet president is in place. Butcher is on the run while MM (Laz Alonso), Frenchie (Tomer Capone) and Hughie (Jack Quaid) are all detainees in a Vought-run \u201cFreedom Camp\u201d for Starlighter sympathizers and other political prisoners. After Starlight releases the Flight 37 video showing Homelander\u2019s true nature, he vows revenge and has Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) leak that the Boys will be executed in three days. Butcher finds Starlight and Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and they make an escape plan that goes very badly until A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) shows up and finally does something truly heroic, paying the ultimate price to save the team.<\/p>\n Episode 2<\/p>\n The Boys<\/p>\n Credit: Prime Video<\/p>\n The Boys escape and move onto the testing stage of Butcher\u2019s plan to release the supe-killing supervirus, which involves breaking into a mansion that houses supe influencers and testing it out on them. Only, Homelander unfreezes his dad, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles), and sends him after Butcher, withholding information about the super-virus. Things get crazy and two of the influencer supes are infected with the virus and die. Soldier Boy is also infected, but while everyone from Butcher and Starlight to Homelander himself thinks that Soldier Boy is dead, he\u2019s revealed to be very much alive in the end.<\/p>\n Episode 3<\/p>\n The Boys<\/p>\n Credit: Prime Video<\/p>\n Read a full recap of Episode 3 right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Instead of going rogue, Soldier Boy returns to The Seven where he\u2019s proclaimed a hero whose reputation was smeared by the \u201clamestream media\u201d and who was framed by Starlight. The Boys head to Stan Edgar\u2019s (Giancarlo Esposito) bunker for help, and Butcher has a chat with Ryan (Cameron Crovetti) that doesn\u2019t go well. Zoe (Olivia Morandin) hitches a ride back to the Boys HQ where she finds her father and tells him Butcher killed her mother, Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) whereupon the two destroy all remaining samples of the supe-virus. The Boys are tracked down by The Deep (Chace Crawford), Black Noir II (who may be someone other than we think, having gone silent), Cindy and Dogknott and a big fight breaks out, in which Black Noir captures Edgar but is double-crossed by The Deep who takes him back to Homelander. Ryan confronts Homelander and is nearly killed. Starlight abandons Hughie because she worries she can\u2019t protect him.<\/p>\n Episode 4<\/p>\n The Boys<\/p>\n Credit: Prime Video<\/p>\n Butcher, MM, Frenchie, Kimiko and Hughie head to Fort Harmony<\/a>. This is where Vought ran a bunch of experiments including experiments with V-One, and they\u2019re trying to track down any remaining serum before Homelander can get his grubby paws on it. Meanwhile, Homelander and Soldier Boy are also headed to Fort Harmony, though Homelander doesn\u2019t realize Soldier Boy is actually working against him, urged on by some not-so-subtle hints from Sister Sage. At Fort Harmony, something is wrong and everyone other than Frenchie starts acting angry and hostile. Some underlying tension bubbles to the surface. When they spot Homelander and Soldier Boy, MM and Butcher decide it would be a good idea to go fight them. When Frenchie stops that, they all turn on one another. <\/p>\n Frenchie finds a supe who we later learn is Quinn, effectively growing into the wall. The weird vines throughout the fort are his doing, and he is the source of the pure hatred that\u2019s overcome everyone. Frenchie gets Soldier Boy to kill Quinn, but when the hate effect is gone, Soldier Boy is crushed over what he\u2019s done. Clearly there is a lot of backstory here. Soldier Boy also managed to lock Homelander in a super cell filled with radiation, though it didn\u2019t hold him long. There is no V-One anywhere to be found. Someone else has taken it, likely Bombsight, another hero from Soldier Boy\u2019s time. Meanwhile, Starlight paid a visit to her father who she hasn\u2019t seen since childhood and meets his new family, learning a thing or two in the process. <\/p>\n Oh, and Homelander announces his godhood to the nation, as Vought launches the Democratic Church of America. It\u2019ll be interesting to see how that\u2019s received by the general public.<\/p>\n Watch \u2018The Boys\u2019 Season 5, Episode 5 Trailer<\/p>\n It looks like we\u2019ll get some pretty gorey action in this next episode. The clock is ticking, with Homelander getting closer to finding V-One and with it, not only immunity to the super-virus, but immortality. Look for more coverage of The Boys here on this blog<\/a>. If you follow me on Twitter<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, or Facebook<\/a> I always share my reviews to socials. What do you think of Season 5 so far?<\/p>\n