Bonus Ep: 'The Boys' S5E05 Has One Excellent Subplot (And Another That Should've Been a Webisode)
Decoding TV
David Chen
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this bonus Decoding TV episode, David and Patrick discuss their thoughts The Boys season 5 episode 5. This episode tells the story of one day from the perspective of multiple characters. Which characters were our favorites? Is the show really going to end in 3 episodes? Is the show gonna have a satisfying ending or is this all just gonna be preparation for Vought Rising? Listen to hear us discuss these questions and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to a bonus episode of Decoding TV about the Boys Season 5, Episode 5. |
| 0:05.9 | I'm David Chen, joining me as usual as Patrick Kleppick. |
| 0:08.9 | And if I sound a little bit different, I'm coming to you from a Lisbon hotel room. |
| 0:15.1 | So it might sound a little bit more echo than usual. |
| 0:17.8 | I don't have my usual setup. |
| 0:18.8 | You might also hear a saxophone playing in the background. Patrick, there's like a, there's like a saxophone playing in the courtyard |
| 0:25.2 | near me. So, I don't hear any saxophone. This is immensely disappointing to know that I could be |
| 0:30.6 | hearing a saxophone and I am hearing none. Well, the listeners might be hearing it. But anyway, |
| 0:35.7 | today on the podcast, we're going to be discussing the boys season five episode five, one shots. |
| 0:41.3 | And, you know, it's an episode that I think is worth talking about because there's a lot of weak stuff that happens in the episode, but there's one plot line that really makes it compelling and worth discussing. |
| 0:52.3 | So I wanted to get Patrick on the Zencaster where we're recording and talk about a little bit. |
| 0:57.6 | So Patrick Kleppick, what did you think about the boys' season five episode five? |
| 1:03.5 | I'm so mixed on like where we're at with the boys right now because if this was the pen ultimate season, I think this would be |
| 1:12.2 | pretty great. Like, it's a lot of hang out with these characters. It does not feel like we are |
| 1:19.7 | three episodes away from the end. And so in many ways, there's a lot of, we had that conversation |
| 1:26.7 | about filler, right? like with the last episode |
| 1:28.8 | there was kind of an episode where we kind of it's you know some people are going to use the term bottle |
| 1:33.1 | episode that's not what bottle episode means but we we put our characters in one space so they could |
| 1:37.4 | bounce off one another and not much happens but i thought a lot of decent character development |
| 1:41.5 | character sitting happened in the previous |
| 1:44.1 | episode. And it functions in a, it occurs in a different way in this episode, but there's still |
| 1:51.0 | just a lot of hanging out with our characters in this episode and not a lot of advancing |
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