The Boys: 10 best episodes that prove it’s the craziest show on TV

If there’s one show on TV that seems to have completely tossed the rulebook out the window and then set that rulebook on fire, it’s The Boys. From exploding heads, killer dolphins, to superheroes with serious public image issues, this show is many things, but subtle.

Based on the comic series by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson, The Boys isn’t just about superheroes. It’s about how deeply flawed, dangerous, and weird people can be when they’re given power, popularity, and a corporate PR team.

But beneath the chaos, there’s a method. The Boys mixes satire, shock, and oddly human moments in a way that keeps you watching. It’s the kind of show where anything can happen - and often does.

And somehow, even after all the mayhem, it still manages to make you care about a bunch of reckless, jaded weirdos who are trying (and often failing) to do the right thing.

Here are 10 episodes that show exactly why The Boys remains one of the wildest rides on TV.

1) Season 1, Episode 1: The Name of the Game

The Boys kicks off with a bang. Or more accurately, a splatter. When A-Train accidentally runs over Hughie’s girlfriend, Robin, it sets the tone for the entire series. This episode introduces the world of Vought, The Seven, and Billy Butcher - played with glorious menace by Karl Urban.

It’s the moment where Hughie goes from electronics store clerk to reluctant anti-hero. The mix of humor, horror, and heartbreak makes for a jarring start. And that’s exactly the point. This show doesn’t tiptoe.

2) Season 2, Episode 6: The Bloody Doors Off

This one cracks Vought’s secrets wide open. Inside a hidden hospital, Frenchie and the team dodge a barefoot teen who explodes heads with a glance. One supe uses acidic vomit as a weapon.

Kimiko rips someone’s face off mid-tackle. Stormfront strolls through carnage like it’s nothing, cracking jokes with blood on her boots. Butcher, on the other hand, sinks deeper into his ruthless side.

It’s The Boys doing what it does best - loud, bloody chaos with just enough heartbreak to make it sting.

3) Season 2, Episode 3: Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men

This one has it all: a boat chase, a whale collision, and The Deep trying way too hard to prove he still matters. The Boys crash right into a giant sea creature, and it’s both hilarious and horrifying.

It’s also the episode that shows just how far Homelander is willing to go to keep control. Antony Starr’s performance is chilling here - quiet one second, unhinged the next. It’s hard to look away.

4) Season 3, Episode 2: The Only Man in the Sky

This one feels like a slow-motion car crash — horrifying, absurd, and impossible to look away from. Homelander celebrates his birthday on live TV, but instead of cake and candles, we get mental breakdowns and PR nightmares. The man wants to be adored, worshipped even, and when he doesn’t get it, he starts cracking.

Publicly. On-air. Meanwhile, other threads spiral too: Hughie finds out the organization he works for might be run by a Supe, Kimiko takes a job that involves musical chairs with s*x toys, and there’s a disturbing side plot involving termite-sized homicide.

It’s not just chaos for the sake of chaos — this episode shows how the show juggles tone like a grenade with the pin pulled.

5) Season 3, Episode 1: Payback

The Boys Season 3 doesn’t ease you in. Within minutes, a tiny supe named Termite crawls inside his partner’s body and then accidentally sneezes - with explosive consequences.

Hughie’s clinging to a normal desk job - until he watches a grinning supe casually crush someone’s arm like it’s a soda can. Homelander, meanwhile, keeps the all-American grin on while quietly cracking inside. It’s messy, loud, and somehow still tees up the season’s bigger emotional fallout.

6) Season 3, Episode 6: Herogasm

You’ve probably heard of this one, even if you’ve never watched the show. Based on a notorious arc from the comics, this episode pulls no punches. There's a superhero orgy in a remote mansion, The Deep has an unsettling moment with an octopus, and MM opens a door at exactly the wrong time.

In the middle of it all, Homelander, Butcher, and Soldier Boy clash in a raw, brutal showdown - the kind that leaves more than just bruises. It’s chaotic, violent, and somehow still lands an emotional punch beneath all the wreckage.

7) Season 4, Episode 4: Wisdom of the Ages

This episode pulls back the curtain on Homelander’s past, and it’s more unsettling than tragic. The flashbacks explain a lot about how he ended up this way, but it’s Antony Starr’s final scene that really hits. He shifts from calm to terrifying without raising his voice - no lasers, no theatrics, just a look that says everything.

Butcher, meanwhile, keeps pushing through his own breakdown, while the team scrambles to keep up. It’s a quieter episode, but it leaves a deeper bruise. Homelander doesn’t explode - he festers, and that might be worse.

8) Season 2, Episode 8: What I Know

The Boys Season 2 finale is full of pain and payoff. Stormfront finally gets what’s coming to her - and it’s not pretty. The Boys come together with one goal: to take her down. We also get one of the best lines from Frenchie: “Girls get it done,” delivered mid-beatdown.

But it’s not all action. Becca’s fate hits hard. And Homelander? Well, let’s just say he ends the season doing something very strange on top of a building. Because, of course, he does.

9) Season 3, Episode 7: Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed

Secrets hit like bricks in this one. When Soldier Boy learns that Homelander is his biological son, his face barely moves - but everything shifts. Hughie teleports them out right before things explode, literally. Meanwhile, Butcher locks Starlight in a bathroom to keep her out of the fight, showing just how far he’s willing to go.

And there’s that uncomfortable flashback: a young Soldier Boy being electroshocked during supe testing while the team laughs around him. The whole episode simmers with dread, trading action for the kind of tension that sticks in your stomach.

10) Season 1, Episode 8: You Found Me

The first season ends without mercy. Butcher thinks he’s blowing himself up with Homelander - only to wake up, confused, on a quiet lawn. Then he sees Becca. And her son. And Homelander, grinning like a proud father.

Earlier, the moment when Homelander calmly fries Stillwell’s skull with his laser vision, even as she pleads with him, tells you everything about who he’s becoming.

There’s no triumphant final act. Just characters realizing how little control they ever had. It’s quiet chaos - and somehow more brutal than a full-on battle.

Conclusion

The Boys doesn’t always make sense. It rarely plays nice. But somehow, it keeps hitting that sweet spot between outrageous and oddly sincere. These episodes are proof that the show isn’t just crazy - it’s also doing something clever beneath all the chaos.