‘The Boys’ Season 4: Here’s An Update On The Details To Know For The Upcoming Season (March 2024)

The Boys undoubtedly plans to skewer some spin off tendencies with a title like the recently announced The Boys: Mexico for a show in development. Yet for three seasons thus far and side voyages to Diabolical and Gen V, this Vought International-engineered world shows no signs of losing its edge. For that matter, there continues to be no shortage of bodily fluids and scintillating subject matter, the latter of which largely arrives courtesy of Chace Crawford’s perverted Deep.

The fourth season of the original series is mercifully on the way in only a few months, again on a mostly weekly rollout. The brand shows no sign of weakening, even as both the DCU and MCU’s empires have considerably weakened. Satire ain’t dead, baby, but it’s hard as hell to pull off, and Eric Kripke succeeds with a tight ship while adapting Garth Ennis’ Dynamite Entertainment comic. Without more f*cking around, let’s dive into what we can expect from The Boys‘ long-awaited return to Amazon.

Plot

The fourth season’s story will kick off only a few days after the events of the Gen V finale, in which Homelander blew away Marie, who later woke up in a locked room (The Woods?) with a handful of her fellow Supes, including Little Cricket. Homelander had engineered the events of the campus mayhem into an opportunity to hold up Cate and Sam as heroes, so perhaps they could crossover into The Boys at some point.

However, that season finale also showed Billy Butcher stumbling onto the lab where the Supe Virus was manufactured. However, Butcher is not exactly on good terms with the rest of The Boys, and Mother’s Milk has plenty of “unfinished business” with the group’s leader after Butcher decided to join forces with Soldier Boy. Additionally, Butcher only has a few months left on his ticker before perhaps croaking from all the Compound V that he decided to take, and Homelander is lining up more dominoes as Ryan becomes an even more dangerous force than we’ve previously seen:

The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power. Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.

Additionally, Homelander will stand trial for killing a civilian in broad daylight. The Deep will continue perving, Mother’s Milk will shave (hmm), and Starlight and Queen Maeve’s replacements (Sage and Firecracker) are, according to Amazon, “two of the most dangerous supes you’ll ever meet.” What else?

On some silly notes, Vought International has been shilling for some terrible “Homelander High-Tops!” Those look awfully familiar. Also, The Boys’ social media has been trolling the “Wanker-in-chief.”

On the VFX side, we can expect (as prosthetic penis guru/VFX wizard Stephan Fleet assures viewers) more of the same disgusting flavor that we’re used to seeing: “I’m excited for the cast of @TheBoysTV to see the crazy sh*t I’m cooking up in VFX! They really put a lot of trust in me.”

From there, I can only hope that someone decided to gift Mother’s Milk with a new jacket after that “Herogasm” shower that he received. Yikes.

Cast

Erin Moriarty returns as Annie January, who has formally gone rogue from The Seven, although she will obviously still have her Starlight powers. The show wouldn’t be the same without Antony Starr as Homelander, Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Chace Crawford as The Deep, Jessie T. Usher as A-Train, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother’s Milk, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, and Tomer Capone as Frenchie. Nathan Mitchell will be back, somehow, as a different version of Black Noir after Homelander killed the previous incarnation.

Additionally, Claudia Doumit’s power is growing as Victoria Neuman, and Colby Minifie is still sh*tting bricks while running PR for Vought International as Ashley. No longer on the scene: Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, who is hopefully enjoying her lesbian retirement on a quiet farm upstate somewhere. As far as anyone has gathered, Jensen Ackles’ Soldier Boy is still out of commission for the time being. We will, however, get some Supernatural flavor with the official debut of Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s secretive-smartass character, although we shouldn’t expect him to play a huge role in the story because The Walking Dead: Dead City hopped into shooting a second season.

A duo of new Supes will join The Seven. They include Sister Sage (Susan Hayward), whose non-classic Supe powers might be much more manipulative than powerful in a physical sense (given that she appears to be encouraging Homelander into a “Caesar”-esque position), and the explosive Firecracker (Valorie Curry) seems to be like Queen Maeve if she was more of a chip off the Homelander block.

Release Date

Season 4 debuts with three episodes on June 13 followed by weekly installments and a season finale on July 18.

Trailer

This ominous teaser trailer suggests that Sister Sage could be pulling some Homelander strings. Democracy begins to fall, too, and this show always feels far too timely, doesn’t it? Somehow, it always manages to entertain in the process. Also, that peek at Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character feels perfect.