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Decoding TV

Ep. 107 - 'The Boys' Season 5 Is Finally Playing for Keeps (PLUS: In 'The Pitt' S2E14, The Past Catches Up)

Decoding TV

David Chen

Recap, Tv, Netflix, Hbo, Tv & Film, Streaming, Fx, Hulu, Max, Television

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2026

⏱️ 87 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

David and Patrick discuss what’s going on in the world of TV, then dive into the latest episode of The Pitt. Also, they discuss The Boys and Patrick finishes A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.

What is the future of late night programming at CBS? Is Dark Matter the best sci-fi show on Apple TV? Are Pitt fans just really bad at watching TV? Do we think The Boys season 5 is going to be any good? Listen to hear us discuss all these questions and more.

Homework for next week:

  • The Pitt Season 2 Episode 15 (HBO Max)
  • Euphoria (HBO Max)

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0:00.0

Hello, everyone, and welcome to Decoding TV, a podcast about television.

0:03.8

I'm David Chen, joining me as usual.

0:06.2

He's Patrick Kleppick.

0:07.3

Patrick, man, there is, as we were discussing the pre-show segment, there is so much TV coming out in the next few months, right?

0:15.0

We got Euphoria coming up this weekend.

0:17.6

Beef Season 2, Half Man, the new series by Richard Gad. There's a man on fire TV show. Who knows if that's going to be any good? Widows Bay, new hero Marai show coming out. It feels like, you know, there's been times when we have struggled to find anything to talk about. You remember, right? Like, there's been definitely periods where there's been like, there's nothing. And now it feels like there's literally too much stuff. Like, we literally probably can't get to all that stuff. No, no. We'll not, but we will do our best. Yes. I'm not ruining for shows to be bad, but it does make it easier. Indeed, indeed. Anyway, today on the podcast, we are going to be discussing as usual our show of the week, which is a show that is in the news lately, and that, of course, it's going to be the boys season five, the first two episodes of which Patrick and I've seen. We got another segment of our favorite, you know, another edition of our favorite segment, Patrick

1:11.0

finishes the damn show, this time talking about Night of the Seven Kingdoms, a little bit of

1:15.8

TV news for you, and then, of course, our recap of the latest episode of The Pit. So,

1:23.1

let's get to it, Patrick Kleppig. Let's start with our conversation about the boys' season five premiere.

1:33.6

My power is absolute.

1:39.2

At heights, no one's even dreamed of.

1:44.5

But I have a bigger destiny.

1:49.3

Well, praise B. And what is it?

1:57.0

All right. Let's get to work, yeah?

1:59.9

We think that Homeland is looking for the V1. get to work, yeah? We think that Homelander is looking for the V1.

2:04.6

It's for its first iteration of Compound V.

2:07.6

If Homelander got his hands on some, it'd be immortal.

2:14.5

Welcome to Decoding TV's coverage of the boys season five premiere.

2:19.3

First two episodes are available right now on Prime Video.

2:22.1

Patrick Clepick and I have seen both of these episodes.

2:25.3

And you should assume that we will spoil everything in the first four seasons of the boys and the stuff that's in the first two episodes of the boys season five.

2:33.0

Gen V as well.

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