‘The Boys’ adds warning to season four finale after Donald Trump assassination attempt
The Boys has added a disclaimer and changed the title of its season four finale, due to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Earlier this month, the gory Amazon Prime Video series revealed that the episode in question would be titled ‘Assassination Run’.
However, it has since been changed to ‘Season 4 Finale’ after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate the former US president at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday (July 13).
The season four finale of The Boys sees the show’s lead characters attempt to quash an assassination plot on President-Elect Robert Singer, ordered by villainous superhero Homelander.
At the beginning of the episode, a disclaimer now reads: “Viewer discretion advised. This episode contains scenes of fictional political violence. Any similarities to recent events are completely coincidental and unintentional. Prime Video, Amazon, MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Television and the producers of The Boys oppose, in the strongest terms, real-world violence of any kind.”
Since releasing on Thursday (July 18), the season four finale has been heavily praised by fans, with many calling it “the best episode of the show”.
It was confirmed last month by Kripke that the fifth season, which had already been commissioned, will bring the series to an end.
Writing on X, Kripke wrote: “Season 5 will be the Final Season! Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax.”
Kripke later told Variety that he expects season five to consist of eight episodes, with filming to take place from November 2024 to mid-2025.
No official release date has been confirmed for season five, but based on the turnover period for previous seasons, it is likely that the new episodes will begin to air in summer 2026.
In a four-star review of the new season, NME wrote: “With season five already confirmed, the return of a few familiar faces and a lot of characters confronting their pasts, this season sometimes feels like the set up for an eventual endgame scenario. Fans will note that spin-off show Gen V recently introduced a potentially supe-killing biological weapon. Luckily, all that plot never slows down the pace in what is another urgent edition of TV’s best superhero show.”
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