‘The Boys’ Renames Finale, Adds Viewer Discretion Warning After Trump Assassination Attempt

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The Boys Season 4 finale, previously titled “Assassination Run,” has been renamed simply “Season Four Finale” after the Saturday, July 13, 2024 assassination attempt on former President Trump. In addition, Amazon’s Prime Video has added a viewer discretion advised warning to the beginning of the episode.

The card reads:

“Viewer discretion advised. This episode contains scenes of fictional political violence. Any similarities to recent events are completely coincidental and unintentional. Prime Video, Amazon MGM Studios, Sony Pictures Television and the producers of The Boys oppose, in the strongest terms, real-world violence of any kind.”

The Boys Season Four Finale Viewer Discretion Advised card

The episode continues from there as normal. And though there’s no one-to-one with the events of last week, the plot of the episode — and spoilers past this point — does concern an attempted assassination attempt on the life of President-elect Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver). In the case of the show, that comes down to a shapeshifter taking the form of Annie (Erin Moriarty) and sneaking into an underground bunker in order to kill the President.

The real Annie stops her, but is unable to stop Butcher (Karl Urban) from ripping apart the VP-elect Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit). In the process, a leaked video implicates Singer in the killing, so he’s arrested and sent to jail.

Again, there’s nothing specifically that parallels the attempted assassination of Trump, which involved a lone shooter on a roof shooting at the ex-President, and clipping his ear. In the process, the shooter killed one bystander at Trump’s rally, before the shooter was killed himself.

While The Boys is actually riffing off of the January 6, 2021 invasion of the Capitol Building in this episode (it takes place on January 6, and there’s rioting in the streets of D.C.), sensitivities are at a high thanks to the assassination attempt, and this is most likely the production companies above aiming to get ahead of any potential controversy… Particularly as the show’s main villain, Homelander (Antony Starr) is a clear stand-in for Trump.

You can watch “Season Four Finale,” which presumably will be renamed at some point, on Prime Video now.

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