The Boys Season 5, Episode 7 opens with Homelander casually murdering the President and ordering the death of democracy as we know it. It is the kind of scene that resets the stakes in a single breath, and the review of the episode says the series is now leaning hard into the aftermath of that collapse.
The episode, reviewed in Yahoo, comes after Episode 6 ended with Soldier Boy handing his son the literal keys to immortality. That choice echoes through the hour. Homelander and Soldier Boy reunite, Soldier Boy tries to make a clean getaway to Bogota, and he ends up right back in the cryo tube. The review says the decision to hand over the V1 to Homelander was motivated by love for Stormfront, not any attachment to Homelander himself.
There is another sharp turn in the hour involving The Deep, who is summarily dismissed and tossed aside. The review says he runs away like a coward while an innocent man drowns, a blunt beat that keeps the episode from softening its own cruelty. That same refusal to look away carries into the season’s larger arc, where Homelander is reveling in his newfound godhood while also being hollowed out by need and loneliness.
Episode 7 is described as the penultimate chapter of Season 5, and that framing matters because the season’s middle stretch had been slower before the last few weeks picked up. The review says the show is now moving with more purpose, even as it keeps showing how unstable its center has become. Homelander’s rise is not presented as simple triumph. It is power mixed with damage, spectacle mixed with isolation.
The hour also opens on a different register entirely. Oh Father begins the episode with an incredible musical number, and Daveed Diggs appears in the role. The review quotes him as saying, “We had to keep it light,” a line that lands as a grim joke inside an episode otherwise built around collapse, humiliation and control.
That balance between absurdity and dread is where the episode seems to find its rhythm. The review says Episode 7 is also about maintaining hope in a hopeless time, and that is where Hughie comes in. He is struggling to keep his morale up, which gives the episode a human center even as the world around him tilts toward open ruin. In a season defined by power plays and punishments, that small fight to stay upright may be the most ordinary and the most important thing left.
By the end of the hour, the show has answered the question raised by its own escalation: yes, The Boys is fully committed to the nightmare it has built, and it is now asking its characters whether they can endure it without surrendering what little hope remains.
