Bittersweet news for fans of Prime Video’s The Boys. Season 4 is out today, but we also learn season 5 will be the final season. The story is expected to live on with Gen V. I first read this on Cancelled SciFi. The initial concept was the show might get five seasons and the linked article points out the economic cusp for expensive shows tends … Continue reading The Boys will end with season 5
My calendar is a little short of pertinent content for June, boiling down (at the time of writing) to Star Wars: Acolyte, The Boys season 4 and Bridgerton season 3 part II. I’m discounting Orphan Black: Echoes as that’s the US date and we in the UK already have the show on ITVX! I’ve had little luck sticking with never mind enjoying the various Star … Continue reading The Boys or Bridgerton — what to watch in June?
Prime Video announced (at its Upfront presentation) a fifth season for The Boys. It’s the biggest show on the streamer, and while season 4 has yet to air, this is no real surprise. Cancelled SciFi makes the point well in its post. No mention of the word final, so expect a least a season 6! Here’s the Prime Video press release. Continue reading The Boys renewed for season 5
Ahead of June 13, Prime Video has released the official trailer for The Boys season 4. The poster is also new from the press release. At the time of writing, it seems only this series, and spin-off Gen V are keeping me invested in having a subscription with Amazon Prime, though it’s conflated with the free delivery. Meanwhile, back in the world of The Boys… … Continue reading The Boys season 4 trailer revealed
Prime Video has announced season 4 of The Boys for June 13. Three episodes will drop on the 13th, followed by a new episode each week, ending with the epic finale on Thursday, July 18. In Season Four, 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 … Continue reading The Boys season 4 hits Prime Video this June
New Years Day. The time to look forward, and here’s my list of six returning shows I will definitely watch in 2024. Surprisingly, despite my core interest in science fiction / genre / cult, it’s mostly feel good TV with little in the way of the supernatural, alien or temporally anomalous. Three feel good shows from the BBC It’s the same three shows every year … Continue reading Six returning shows I’ll watch in 2024
The same Bloomberg piece that mentions Peaky Blinders spin-offs also talks about why Wednesday is being explored as a franchise by Netflix. It also goes into the economics of why this is more likely than having the multi-season shows we had more often in the past. The economics is all about rising cost of stars as a series progresses. In some ways Castle is a … Continue reading Is there a Fester spin-off to Wednesday to look forward to?
The publicity for delayed season 4 of The Boys has kicked off (as suggested recently) with two posters. It looks like the election has happened, and given the triumphant setting for Homelander, we assume Victoria Neuman is (at least) Vice President. Butcher looks a lot less than happy. Apart from that, they also confirm a 2024 date. Here are the two posters in full: Continue reading The Boy season 4 publicity begins ahead of 2024 release
Following the end of season 1 of Gen V, the many links across to The Boys are clear, with cameos and more substantial crossovers. Season 4 of The Boys comes next in terms of story, but where is it? Why was there no announcement after last Friday? The simple answer is it’s not quite ready, and for me this means it’s looking like a 2024 … Continue reading The Boys season 4 update
In the final analysis (this is the season finale, but worry not as season 2 is already confirmed) Gen V is part of the wider story of The Boys and nowhere more so than this episode with three major characters crossing over. The overall story of The Woods, our heroes and not so heroes moves away from relationships into mayhem and murder. While that might … Continue reading Gen V 1:08 Guardians of Godolkin — some thoughts
Seven episodes down, one to go and the latest instalment of already renewed Gen V was sick. Attempts to be cool aside, Sick resets our expectations nicely just ahead of next week’s finale. We also have plenty of tie-ins with The Boys, many more than we’ve had before, and I think that’s the right choice as it allowed this new show time to breathe. Sick … Continue reading Gen V 1:07 Sick — some thoughts
Last Friday, Prime Video treated us to the first three episodes of Gen V. Two would have been quite enough to set the scene, but I wonder if they’re keen to get the show out as it then allows The Boys season 4 to get released (they are coupled) inside 2023. As to the new spin-off, it’s very good (so far). All the gore, violence, … Continue reading Gen V first thoughts
Symmetry Junction 