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The Boys Season 5, Episode 7 — Everyone Is Breaking

 

The Boys S5E7

There is a strange feeling surrounding this episode of The Boys: it is not exactly bad, but after last week’s... this one lands with far less impact. It feels like an in-between episode — one more interested in moving pieces around the board than delivering major emotional or narrative payoffs. And at this point in the season, that is becoming a little frustrating.

Still, the episode has things worth talking about.

The Deep Has Finally Hit Rock Bottom

At this stage, The Deep (Chace Crawford) is no longer tragic, pathetic, or even accidentally funny. He is simply disgusting.

One of the few things that made him remotely human before was his affection for sea life. As absurd as it sounds, his connection with fish was the only genuinely sweet thing left in him. But after the oil incident? Even the fish hate him now.

He's ending up hated by the public, mocked by his peers, and abandoned by the very creatures he claimed to love. Every episode pushes him lower.

At this point, if he ended up killed by sea creatures, it would honestly feel deserved. Maybe even poetic.

Finally, The Boys Feel Like The Main Characters Again

One thing I genuinely appreciated is that this episode focused more on the actual Boys than on Vought’s backstage politics or Homelander’s (Antony Starr) master plan.

For several episodes now, the show has been so obsessed with Vought’s internal chaos that we have almost forgotten something important: the Boys themselves barely understand what is truly happening.

The realization hits at the same time it hits them. When Starlight (Erin Moriarty) and Mother's Milk react in shock to that ridiculous commercial, it suddenly clicks — they are behind. Completely behind. They have been reacting blindly while bigger forces move around them.

And maybe that says something important about Sister Sage (Susan Heyward), too. If the Boys are this unaware, then Sage probably has not revealed the full picture. Are her plans still hidden behind another layer?

MM and Starlight Feel Human Again

This episode also did something very necessary: it made some characters feel like themselves again.

MM (Laz Alonso), especially, has felt oddly cold and distant lately, almost like the show forgot his emotional core. Here, though, he feels human again. Tired, traumatized, frustrated — but recognizably MM. It works because it finally reminds us how much suffering he has carried for seasons.

The same goes for Starlight. Watching her save people again was refreshing because it reconnects her with what originally made her compelling. In a show drowning in cynicism, Annie still works best when she is allowed to genuinely care.

The Gen V Cameos Did Absolutely Nothing For Me

The cameos from Gen V felt completely unnecessary.

Instead of adding excitement, they came across like corporate synergy — the kind of crossover designed less for storytelling and more to remind viewers that another show exists. If anything, it felt like a setup for wrapping up Gen V’s own storylines rather than improving this episode.

And the problem is simple: if viewers are not emotionally invested in those characters, the scenes land flat.

Sage Is Becoming More Irritating Than Intimidating

Sister Sage continues to lose me a little more every week.

At first, her intelligence made us think she would be fascinating because she felt unpredictable. But now... she adds nothing. 

Instead of feeling impressed by her, I mostly feel annoyed.

And honestly? I wanted somebody to punch her.

That Ending Hurt

And then there is Frenchie (Tomer Capone).

That ending was brutal.

Frenchie has always been one of the emotional hearts of the show — chaotic, broken, funny, deeply guilty, but still capable of tenderness in ways many characters are not. Seeing him reduced to that final moment was painful, especially because the series clearly knows how attached audiences are to him.

It was probably the strongest emotional beat of the episode.

The Biggest Problem: The Season Keeps Delaying Resolution

This is becoming the season’s biggest issue.

Episode after episode, the show keeps moving toward something enormous without actually arriving there. It creates the uncomfortable feeling that the finale will suddenly need to resolve too many storylines at once.

And that is worrying.

It reminds me of later seasons of Game of Thrones, where endless buildup eventually collapsed into rushed conclusions because the story waited too long to start paying things off. 

The writers continue to stretch the tension without delivering meaningful progression, and we have only one episode left.

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