The Boys Season 5 Episode 7 barrels into the endgame with full spoilers and no patience for restraint. Homelander casually murdered the President, ordered the death of democracy as we know it, and Soldier Boy tried to make a clean getaway to Bogota before ending up back in the cryo tube.
The episode is the penultimate chapter of the series, and it lands like a reset button smashed by force. Episode 6 ended with Soldier Boy handing his son the literal keys to immortality, and this week turns that cliffhanger into a grim punchline when his escape collapses. The review says he may still have a part to play in the final episode, but it would not be disappointing if this was where his story stopped. After everything he has done, winding up frozen again feels like a blunt form of justice.
That same kind of reckoning hits The Deep, who is dismissed and tossed aside after giving everything to Vought and its master. The review is unsparing about what that loyalty bought him: absolutely nothing. In his final scene on the series, he runs away like a coward while an innocent man drowns, a bitter end for a character who spent so much time bending himself around power only to be discarded by it.
Oh Father also appears in the opening musical number, a reminder that this show still likes to swing between spectacle and despair in the same breath. Episode 7 is not just about collapse, though. The review says it explores the harder task of keeping hope alive in a hopeless time, which is why the hour works whether it is focused on the pain of aging and dying or on the twisted fallout of Deep and Black Noir’s shattered bromance. That balance is part of why the season feels like it has found its footing again after a shaky start.
That matters because the first half of Season 5 meandered before the last few weeks picked up, and Episode 7 is where the momentum finally feels earned. Jesse Schedeen wrote that The Boys Season 5 might suffer from a weak first half, but the series has finally rebuilt its momentum. The penultimate chapter does the heavy lifting by paying off old cliffhangers, tightening old feuds, and narrowing the road to the finale.
So does Frenchie die in The Boys? This review does not describe his death, and Episode 7’s biggest final-image returns are Soldier Boy in the cryo tube and The Deep fleeing into disgrace. What it does make clear is that the series has moved past setup and into judgment, and the final episode now has the job of deciding who, if anyone, gets out alive.
