‘The Boys’ Season 4 Finale: Claudia Doumit On This “Surreal Moment” In America, Fictional VP-Elect’s Fate, & The Focus For Season 5

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SPOILER ALERT : This article contains details of the Season 4 finale of The Boys that was formerly titled “Assassination Run.” The episode, now called “Season Four Finale” after the real-life attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, dropped earlier today on Amazon Prime Video. “It’s quite the surreal moment, I would say first and foremost,” states The Boys star Claudia Doumit of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the warped mirror of the 2024 election that the Prime Video superhero satire series has become in its Season 4 finale. “I think the show has always served as a reflection of what’s currently happening in our world,” the actor who plays the scheming and secretly superable Vice President-elect Victoria Neuman on the Eric Kripke run Boys. “But, I mean, no one could really predict that this to happen with the timing.” That’s certainly a polite way of putting it by the seasoned Australian-born Doumit, as the Kripke directed Season 4 ender pivots The Boys to its fifth and final season with political deaths and bedlam.

As POTUS-elect Robert Singer’s “extreme anti-Supe agenda” polarizes the body politic, it’s January 6 and Congress is voting on certifying the Electoral College votes to put “Dakota Bob” and Victoria Neuman in the White House.

Or, with terms like “internment camps” being tossed around, as Hughie (Jack Quaid) nicely puts it: “the whole country barreling towards 1984.” Praised by alt-righter Firecracker (Valorie Curry) as a “secret dagger in the heart of the Deep State,” Veep-elect Neuman is revealed live on TV by a smug Homelander to be “superabled.” In a divided America, the news causes chaos and riots all over the nation.