The season 4 finale of The Boys might have damaged followers’ hearts, however not Prime Video’s. After the episode dropped on July 18, it successfully set a brand new streaming file for Amazon in the course of the week of July 15 by July 21. Greater than a billion minutes that week have been streamed, breaking just a few Nielson information for the studio, Deadline reported on Friday, August 16.
In keeping with the outlet, the present was streamed for 1.3 billion minutes after the finale aired. This turned the collection’ highest weekly whole because it had already crossed the billion-minute threshold seven occasions beforehand. The Boys now has 20 appearances within the high 10 Nielsen titles.
Season 4 ended on a serious cliffhanger. A number of Boys have been captured by Vought, and others stay aside from one another. Homelander (performed by Antony Starr) has taken full management over the brand new U.S. authorities; Annie (Erin Moriarty) has to depart Jack Quaid‘s character, Hughie, due to her reinstated powers; Butcher (Karl City) and Kessler (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) are seen driving into the evening carrying a vial of the supe virus, and Homelander finds out that his supe father, Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) remains to be alive.
Shortly earlier than the finale episode aired, Prime Video added a content material warning observe for its depiction of a fictional presidential assassination. Moreover, the episode title was modified from “Assassination Run” to “Season 4 Finale.” 5 days earlier, Donald Trump was shot within the ear at a marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, that month.
“The season finale of The Boys comprises scenes of fictional political violence, which some viewers might discover disturbing, particularly in mild of the accidents and tragic lack of life sustained in the course of the assassination try on former President Trump,” a message from The Boys’ Instagram account learn. “The Boys is a fictitious collection that was filmed in 2023, and any scene or plotline similarities to those real-world occasions are coincidental and unintentional. Amazon, Sony Footage Tv and the producers of The Boys reject, within the strongest phrases, real-world violence of any type.”