Random Review: The Boys Series Finale (SPOILERS) | Original Geek

⚠️ FULL SPOILERS for the series finale. Watch the episode first, then come back.

Episode 8, "Blood and Bone," had the hardest job on TV: end Butcher, Hughie, Starlight, and Homelander without short-changing five seasons of buildup. Did it stick the landing?

We Roll the D20 — it's a spoiler-heavy Random Review of THE BOYS series finale. Steve and Jeff break down the bloodiest, most satisfying send-off on TV: the Deep's full-circle death by radicalized sea life, Huey's "it just hurts to be human" gut-punch to Butcher, Starlight finally getting her revenge, and whether the writers stuck the landing or pulled a Lost.
Samuel L. Jackson as a hammerhead. Butcher's last one-two punch. Jack Quaid as the moral anchor of the whole run. We cover the bookends, the deaths, and the one or two things that made us go "hmm."


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Transcript

Steve Scarfo (00:05)
All right, welcome to this original Geek Random Review. We set the topic, the dice set the direction, we know what we're reviewing, we just don't know how. Today, as Jeff just said.

Jeff (00:14)
And

yeah, we're doing the boys, just the final episode. I know as we were preparing for this, let's do a boys, we gotta do the boys. And we were kind of thinking, do we do this whole season? Do we do the whole show series? But because this day that we're recording is the day the finale came out, the final episode, this is pure.

final episode random review. Spoilers ahead.

Steve Scarfo (00:46)
Okay, so that's just gonna say, so if

that didn't tell you that this is spoiler filled, don't watch this. I said it during the Punisher one shot too. If you haven't watched it, pause us, go watch it and come back. Because this was an action packed episode.

Jeff (00:52)
Ha

Yeah, so.

Steve Scarfo (01:06)
So I know we'll

usually talk more about it after. I think I rolled for you first last time. Let's go.

Jeff (01:11)
So I'm rolling for you.

We've got an 18 successful charisma check. The deeps karma. Chase Crawford's character meeting the marine life. Horrifically satisfying. The deep being lured into the ocean by starlight and subsequently torn apart by radicalized sea life was the ultimate charisma hit. It brought his five season arc of exploiting marine characters.

Steve Scarfo (01:17)
Hmm.

Jeff (01:40)
to hilarious, gory, full circle conclusion. Your thoughts.

Steve Scarfo (01:47)
I could not agree with that more. He was he was the character you loved to hate and the actor they put his name here Chase Crawford, the actor who played him perfectly. He's he he was very much you could see the bravado of the deep on the outside but but Crawford plays it in such a way that you're you can see

Jeff (01:50)
I love it.

Yes.

Steve Scarfo (02:12)
the insecurity. Like, I don't think it was melodramatic. I don't think it was overdone. Like, he's just looking for a father figure for approval, and they show it in the most hilarious ways. I mean, he has sex with an octopus at one point in season three or four. And earlier in the season, I know we weren't going to talk about anything, but earlier in the season, the guy who's replaced Noir because deep fucked with him.

he went and tore up a pipeline and then blamed it on the deep. So every creature in the ocean is pissed at the deep and to the point where, and we talked about this before. So also you guys should know this is the third or fourth iteration of this random review because we were trying to do it and then we couldn't get it scheduled. And then every time we wanted to talk something different had come out. we're, that's why this is just about this last one, but also

Jeff (02:49)
Hehehehehe

Steve Scarfo (03:12)
the, we had talked about when he was sitting on the dock and there's like, save him, it's the deep, he's right there, save him. And he's like, nope, sorry, I can't do it. Cause he knows that the fish will tear him apart. to see the final battle, and I think it was so poetic too, that it was starlight. Cause the whole show too starts off with her becoming one of the seven and he immediately gets her to give him a blow job because he, he, he convinces her that

he's the guy and then they come out of the stall and she realizes as they go sit in the in the the sevens area whatever i don't know if they call it a throne room or whatever i forget but like you you realize right away like no he's just kind of a douche i thought was hysterical

Jeff (04:00)
Yeah, I love that Starlight that this episode had a lot of that where things that happened in the first season, we get that bookend. So with this one, like I love that Starlight finally gets her revenge on the deep. So it's taken five seasons, but mission accomplished. Agreed. The other kind of bookend that was hilarious was Huey.

getting splattered with blood. He's like, I need a new job. And it was that same thing from when translucent got blown up. And he's looking at the poster of the boy with the spaghetti on his head. And it was perfect. This episode had a number of those. What's that?

Steve Scarfo (04:49)
Well, in the very first episode,

the very first episode too, when you first see Huey and his girlfriend, the whole thing that gets kicked off because it's within a minute or two, he's holding her hands and the next thing Huey just is constantly splattered with blood. And the fact, I agree when he said I need a new job, I laughed my ass off.

Jeff (04:56)
Oh yes, oh my God, yeah. Yes, he gets, all right, so he gets splattered quite a few times.

Okay. Yeah.

So, that was great. Yeah. So, no, this was perfect. And the only thing, and maybe I missed it, because there was a number of like sea life voices. I love that Samuel Jackson was the hammerhead shark. It's like, fuck you motherfucker. And what, but I didn't catch it if it was there. It was the hammerhead shark, part of the

Steve Scarfo (05:25)
Yes!

Jeff (05:33)
revenge on the deep. Did he get consumed or bitten or I didn't hear that voice. Okay.

Steve Scarfo (05:38)
I don't think they showed him, I thought,

see, I thought I heard the voice, but they just showed all of the, they showed all the sharks coming, but it ended up being like an octopus that got him. Yeah. Yeah, cause it was a tentacle that comes out through his head. And I love too that they, and they did this a lot through this episode. There's no question.

Jeff (05:43)
you did, okay.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, it's like, yeah, or squid or something.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Steve Scarfo (06:04)
Like there's no, the deep gets pulled under and he's still kicking and screaming. Or maybe he, maybe he convinced them that he, maybe, you know what I mean? There was no, maybe he's survived, right? They show him die in the best, worst way possible. All right, you ready? All right, here we go. Ooh, a 15. The human speech, a successful diplomacy. Huey's.

Jeff (06:12)
If you'll be okay.

Alright, yes.

Steve Scarfo (06:34)
final plea to Butcher. this is a good one. The emotional peak. Jack Quaid delivers the definitive performance when he tells Butcher, you're not a monster. It just hurts to be human. It completely validated Huey's role as the moral anchor of the entire five season run.

Jeff (06:52)
Yeah, so Jack Quaid is so good. He looks so much like his mom.

Meg Ryan, because it's Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan's son. But I think he, really? So he looks so much more like Meg Ryan, I think, than Dennis Quaid. he, and I love that, and also kind of parallel to the scene, Butcher.

Steve Scarfo (07:06)
Do you know I did not know that? Didn't know that.

Jeff (07:28)
He's like, everything I tried, he kind of like tried to corrupt Huey and Huey could not be corrupted. Huey stayed true to himself and then when he said that, it just hurts to be human. I was thinking about like, almost seemed like, because Butcher, right before he makes this decision to try to release a virus that's gonna kill off.

Steve Scarfo (07:33)
Mm-hmm.

Jeff (07:55)
superheroes, including Starlight, which Huey, of course, would not. And he doesn't he doesn't want he doesn't think they need genocide anyway, that there's plenty of good people and good superheroes. But certainly he wants to protect Starlight. But. Butcher, he just got hurt by. Ryan said, I don't want anything to do with you. You're not a good person. And so Butcher is like.

Steve Scarfo (08:20)
Mm-hmm.

Jeff (08:24)
Alright, screw it. I'm gonna go kill everyone.

Steve Scarfo (08:27)
Well, you

skipped over an important spot.

Jeff (08:30)
What's that?

Steve Scarfo (08:31)
because then he goes into his room to say to his dog, it's just you and I. And once again, the theme of the week, the dog died.

Jeff (08:37)
Oh yeah, and then his dog's dead. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Steve Scarfo (08:47)
So I think it was sort of a one-two punch. The one person he connected to and the dog dying makes him kind of go, well, fuck it.

Jeff (08:54)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. Yeah.

So like his whole, like he was so driven for revenge. And then he got that revenge. And then, yeah, what's left? yeah, that one thing I said I was gonna do, which was destroy all superheroes. I guess I'll just do that. Yeah.

Steve Scarfo (09:12)
Yeah.

It's funny, it reminds me of Indigo Montoya from The Princess Bride. I've been in the revenge business so long, I don't know what to do.

Jeff (09:21)
Yeah,

exactly. So, yeah, I think the performances in general, think, think most of our hit shows and this may seem this may seem like, obvious, like Captain obvious here. But I it's not to diminish the writing. But I feel like the perfect cast can just make a show. And I feel like

The boys did that. I couldn't imagine anyone else doing most of these roles and certainly not Carl Urban as Butcher and Jack Quaid as Huey were just perfect.

Steve Scarfo (10:05)
No, and you know, it's funny. Jack Quaid just did a movie last year called Novacaine. I think it's called he's he plays a guy who has a disorder where he can't feel pain and he accidentally kind of becomes well, he accidentally kind of becomes a hero and helps someone, but it's only really because he he gets beat up and he can't feel the pain. So he just keeps going. And I was a little nervous to watch it because I was so used to him as Huey.

that you know how it is when you see a person as a character, they start to be that character. And I will say this wasn't a huge departure in terms of, you know, character acting. It was still a very, you know, physical role and he was still, he was great. I agree. Even like I love Giancarlo Esposito, so him as Stan Edgar.

Jeff (10:39)
Yeah.

Steve Scarfo (10:56)
Yeah, there was so much of this episode that was so satisfying. I was so afraid. I was afraid we were gonna get a lost finale. I was afraid we were gonna get one of those where they were gonna end it, but not really just because they're trying to keep the doors open and nope, they fucking dropped the anchor.

Jeff (11:15)
yeah.

Steve Scarfo (11:19)
and they did, I think, an amazing job of tying up. Now there's a few things I thought, and we'll talk about them in some of the next segments, but there were a couple things I was like, hmm. But overall the episode was great. Not in the episode specifically, but in this last season or two.

Jeff (11:37)
All right, all right, looking forward to tackling that with you.

Steve Scarfo (11:43)
listen, I say this every time. This is our random review. This is a standalone segment, but it's also part of the larger episode. go back, check out the larger episode. It's always going to be tagged. I can start saying Lincoln bio cause I probably finally fixed all that. So if you're seeing this as a one-off, go check out all the episodes and join us for more.