The latest episode of the fourth season of The Boys, called “Wisdom of the Ages,” delivers an exciting experience from beginning to end. Viewers can look forward to another enthralling and unpredictable journey as the show keeps pushing boundaries. As the season unfolds, it continues to astonish and delight, making it the best season so far. In this episode, audiences can anticipate chaos, devastation, and a dose of dark humor that truly sets it apart.
The narrative kicks off with the infamous sociopath, Homelander, visiting the lab of his creation. Instead of a sentimental trip, it turns into a sequence of haunting flashbacks, resembling a return to an old school but with more blood and trauma. Homelander shows up at the lab with a deceptively innocent chocolate fudge whale cake, which serves as a misleading introduction to intense chaos and one of the most stressful and uncomfortable situations witnessed on TV. It’s fair to say that this show is genuinely gripping.
As Homelander strolls through the lab, the tension is thicker than a New York cheesecake. We get the “this is why I am the victim here” vibes and, admittedly, we do feel a small twinge of sympathy towards this monster. He was kept locked up and away as a child. He was constantly locked in the Red Room. They did this to a child. Sure, this is Baby Homelander we’re talking about here, but we can kind of see how he started out as a victim of circumstance rather than just being a bad person. Or, so we think so far. The scientists, who probably thought they were getting a day off from horror, are horribly lulled into a false sense of security by Homelander’s disturbingly cheerful demeanor. Remember – this is The Boys, so you know things aren’t going to go down smoothly. Homelander snaps from polite visitor to avenging angel of death in no time as he begins slaughtering the lab staff in gruesome ways that would make even a horror movie director wince. The only one he spares is the chief scientist, Barbara, who he traps in the Red Room, surrounded by her colleagues’ mutilated bodies. If that doesn’t scream “You’re my least favorite”, then I don’t know what does.
