The Boys Season 5, Episodes 1-2 Review (Full Spoilers)

Warning: This review contains full spoilers for The Boys Season 5, Episodes 1-2, which are available to stream now on Prime Video.

You can also check out IGN’s spoiler-free review of the first seven episodes.

In fact, there’s a bit of a whiplash effect to watching these two episodes together.

Episode 1 serves as a pretty strong start to the new season, one that feels all too appropriately timed to the current political climate.

But Episode 2 falls back to a more familiar and, frankly, dull status quo.

The more things change, the more they stay the same, apparently.

It’s fascinating to see how these characters are reacting to their imprisonment, because it doesn’t necessarily play out like you’d expect.

MM, for one, seems oddly chill and even zen about being a political prisoner.

No doubt the copious amounts of prison moonshine are helping on that front, but you also get the sense that he’s happy to be focused on the path ahead without the distraction and worry of having to care for his family any longer.

He’s happy just to fight his fellow prisoners and wait for the day the hangman comes calling.