The fifth & final season of The Boys, has finally streamed on Amazon. Based on the comic book series of the same name, which commenced back in 2019. The series has now officially concluded. It's spin-off Gen V was also cancelled. Where some of the character actually crossed over in this season.
Returning cast, Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Colby Minifie, Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Cameron Crovetti, with Snowpiercer Daveed Diggs, joining as a religious nut job.
This season, the Boys and Billy Butcher, who possesses a virus capable of killing all Supes in the world, join forces one last time to try to end Homelander's reign, who now threatens to become immortal with the discovery of the first version of Compound V, the V1.
The season received critical acclaim with praise towards its action sequences, character development, social commentary, humour, storyline, performances (particularly Urban, Starr, Fukuhara, & Ackles), and having a satisfying conclusion, though some criticised its pacing and claimed the season suffered from a lack of focus.
Vought Rising , is the next spin-off series, which will star Ackles and Cash reprising their roles as Soldier Boy and Stormfront, respectively.
Vought Rising will be set in the 1950s, apparently set to stream in 2027.
In the series finale, The Boys bury Frenchie as Homelander prepares a national address proclaiming his godhood from the Oval Office.
After provoking Kimiko into testing her new power on her, Sage is rendered powerless and departs the Boys to live an ordinary life.
Once the Boys successfully infiltrate the White House with Ashley's help, Annie fights the Deep while Hughie and M.M. lure Oh Father away so Butcher and Kimiko can face Homelander.
Oh Father and the Deep are killed while Ryan aids Butcher in restraining Homelander, enabling Kimiko to blast them all and neutralise the Compound V in their blood.
A now powerless Homelander begs for his life but Butcher kills him. Subsequently, Ashley is removed from office and Edgar once again becomes Vought's CEO. Overcome with despair after being rejected by Ryan and learning of his dog's death, Butcher goes to Vought Tower to release the virus but is killed by Hughie before he can do so.
After the Boys disband, M.M. renews his marriage vows and takes in Ryan; Kimiko goes to France; and Hughie and Annie prepare to become parents.
It was a slightly random, neat finale. But it worked. Homelander had to die, I wish Frenchie didn't in the previous episode.
Whilst I think Gen V could have had a better ending, a possible third and final season, I am looking forward to Vought Rising in 2027.
Another bi series finale next week, Hacks. If episode nine is anything to go by, it's gonna go out with a BANG!
Margo's Got Money Troubles is the latest series from David E. Kelley. Based on the 2024 novel by Rufi Thorpe, starring, Elle Fanning, Nick Offerman, Greg Kinnear, Thaddea Graham, Michael Angarano, Michelle Pfeiffer, plus some Nicole Kidman.
The eight episode first season (I originally thought it was a miniseries) landed on Apple TV mid-April. Margo received positive reviews from critics, with the series then gaining a renewal for a second season.
Margo's Got Money Troubles centres on Margo Millet (Fanning), the daughter of a Hooters waitress, Shyanne (Pfeiffer), and a former professional wrestler, Jinx (Offerman). After becoming pregnant by her English professor (Angarano), Margo turns to OnlyFans to support herself.
Reconnecting with her estranged father, who shares wisdom gleaned from his wrestling days, Margo achieves remarkable success on OnlyFans.
In the finale, Lock and Load, all Margo's issues come to a head. The episodes ends like it could have been a miniseries, however Apple TV & A24 had different ideas.
Where will season two see Margo (Fanning) and her son Bodhi end up. Time will tell. If having Kidman and Pfeiffer on the show, we may have a wait!
Both Apple TV & A24, have excelled recently. Apple TV is also getting lot's of love for Widow's Bay and the new Wednesday series, Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed.
Honestly the $25 dollars I pay a month for my Apple Music and TV is so worth it. Not an ad. But damn. I used to pay $30 a full album back in my youth at HMV, Erina Fair! Now I get unlimited music and premium TV content. Damn. Some things are cheaper in 2026!
Have an ace weekend. The Boys finale incoming. Not to mention on the weekend, Fire Country and Sheriff Country also both conclude on Paramount+. With SkyMed also returning. Paramount+ is also a content champion right now.
Alert: Missing Persons Unit is a procedural drama about the Philadelphia Police Department’s Missing Persons’ Unit (MPU).
Across the 30 episode run, each episode features a heart-pounding, life-or-death search for a missing person that runs alongside police officers Jason Grant (Scott Caan, Hawaii 5-0) and his ex-wife Nikki Batista’s (Dania Ramirez, Devious Maids) season one long quest to find out the truth about their long-lost son.
Which is all neatly resolved by the end of season one. No spoilers here if you are late to the party. Like me.
The series is created by John Eisendrath and Jamie Foxx. Which originally landed on FOX back in January, 2023. Back in June 2025, the series was canceled after three seasons. With the very last episode airing last May.
A procedural show, during these uncertain times, can be very calming. Every episode has a strict formula to follow. Every episode a new missing person (s). However the lose of a main character at the start of the season three, leaves the show a little lost.
Adeola Role, Ryan Broussard, & Graham Verchere join Ramirez and Caan as the main series regulars. Don't worry about Caan being out of a job. Following an episode on NCIS: Los Angeles, next TV season he joins NCIS: New York. Which in turn has bumped NCIS: Sydney to a midseason, ten episode run next season.
Stan has all thirty episodes streaming right now, after acquiring the series well after it concluded.
2024–25 TV season was cruel at FOX. Alongside Alert: Missing Persons Unit, we also farewelled, 9-1-1: Lone Star, the spin-off with way more heart than the OG. The Cleaning Lady which had a promising start, but grew increasingly tedious, The Great North & Baywatch wannabe series, Rescue: HI-Surf. Funny that got cancelled, next TV season Baywatch is legit being rebooted.
With a mild cliffhanger, Alert: Missing Persons Unit sails off into the TV graveyard. Could a fourth season have worked? I think it ended just well enough. Unfortunately in the US, some network shows (9-1-1) have outstayed their welcome. Jumped the shark. Or just become so average. I'm looking at you Grey's Anatomy.
Mother Mary is a musical/psychological drama-thriller film written and directed by David Lowery.
Starring Anne Hathaway & Michaela Coel, with the music was composed by Daniel Hart, with original songs provided by musicians Jack Antonoff and Charli XCX. FKA Twigs also provided an original song.
The soundtrack album Mother Mary: Greatest Hits was announced in March, whilst being released in April. It includes seven original songs, all performed by Hathaway. Alongside the announcement, the lead single Burial was released.
Hunter Schafer, Sian Clifford joined Hathaway & Cole, playing smaller roles. Whilst FKA Twigs also had a small role in the film.
Mother Mary follows a pop star whose reunion with her former costume designer forces her to confront her past.
The film has received mixed to positive reviews from critics and was a box-office disappointment, grossing only $3 million against its $20 million budget.
With names like Charli XCX, Anne Hathaway, Michaela Coel and FKA Twigs involved, this would be disappointing for A24. They are on such a roll with TV and film. With Margo's Got Money Troubles one of the most impressive TV series streaming right now.
I enjoyed this different look at fame and life in the spotlight. A massive star with wardrobe issues.
It was a little random at times, however this is my second Anne Hathaway film this weekend and I'm back in love with her performances. I did like her as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises.
I read very little about this film, nor watched the trailer ahead of seeing a Sunday session of this film. I could almost tell part one through this has FKA Twigs name all over it.
I will pass this as I did feel in the middle it sort of lost it's way a bit.
2.5 Stars. Big TV finales this week and next week. Chat soon. Bye!
Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, & Stanley Tucci return to show that printed press isn't dead yet! The Devil Wears Prada 2, has been slaying in cinemas recently, with Lady Gaga x Docehii's hit Runway smashing the charts & streaming platforms.
Gag also stars in the hit film, which has received generally positive reviews from critics, whilst grossing $453 million against a $100 million production budget. This makes The Devil Wears Prada 2, the fifth highest-grossing film of 2026. Thus far! We are only halfway through May 2026 people!
Almost 20 years after making their iconic turn as Miranda, Andy, Emily and Nigel—Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt and Stanley Tucci return to the fashionable streets of New York City and the sleek offices of Runway Magazine. Spoiler alert I never saw the original film.
Yes I a bad gay! A terrible gay some may say!
The film reunites the original main cast with director David Frankel and writer Aline Brosh McKenna, and introduces an all-new runway of characters including Kenneth Branagh, Simone Ashley, Justin Theroux, Lucy Liu, Aussie Patrick Brammall, Caleb Hearon, Helen J. Shen, Pauline Chalamet, B.J. Novak & Conrad Ricamora.
Tracie Thoms and Tibor Feldman also reprise their roles as “Lily” and “Irv” from the first film.
Set two decades after the events of the first film, it follows Andy Sachs (Hathaway) as she helps Miranda Priestly (Streep) navigate a new media landscape and corporate threats to the survival of Runway magazine.
As media dies in 2026, this film takes aim at the dying art of journalism, with its impacts on the new media, along with fashion media!
It's all about the fashion scene in this film. The fashion, the gay anthems played through the film. This is clearly aimed at the gays and their allies lol. It is Eurovision weekend after all.
Even though I never say the OG Devil Wears Prada film, you can just slide into this easy, breezy, popcorn film.
Honestly the storyline is very easy to keep up with.
Hathaway excels in this film, while Streep is effortless.
I enjoyed every minute of this escapism from fuel crisis, wars, the rise of One Nation and the news cycle in general. Which in a way this film is telling you to care about.
Enjoy the fashion, enjoy the Gaga, enjoy the luxury. The Devil Wears Prada 2 is pure, simple fun.
Obsession is the latest supernatural/horror film of 2026.
How ironic the week of the federal budget, we get yet (another) horror film.
In Obsession, we follow Bear (played by Michael Johnston), a music store employee who buys a supernatural toy and wishes for his childhood friend Nikki (Inde Navarrette) to fall in love with him.
Alongside Johnston & Navarrette, Cooper Tomlinson, Megan Lawless, and Andy Richter also star in this love story, turned into a nightmare! The film received critical acclaim, with praise directed towards Navarrette's performance. Currently on Rotten Tomatoes, the film is scoring in the high 90's! That's almost unheard of now, with the sheer volume of horror films landing in 2026.
I jumped multiple times. Shit got real about thirty or so minutes into the film. The film is close to tow hours but gets seriously messed up as the run time goes on.
The whole audience in the sold (peak) Friday evening session in, inner Sydney was laughing, yelling out and getting behind the film's leads.
This was a real experience. Honestly there were real moments were people yelled or laughed out loud.
Cinema was back baby. Sold out Devil Wears Prada 2, Michael and more. I got the last two tickets in the back row (similar to Mortal Kombat II last week) for this session.
It's rare now that these horror, mixed with a supernatural film, get such a good reaction.
I enjoyed this. Bring on the return of the cinema in 2026.
DMV followed the workers at the East Hollywood DMV. Collette, a driving instructor, tackles workplace problems, romance, and interpersonal connections with her coworkers.
The show is a fictional account of the DMV, but makes the jokes that most people have when going to renew licenses and forms. Sadly for the cast and crew, back in March, the series was canceled after one season. With the series finale streaming yesterday on Binge. This is one of the only CBS series to air away from Paramount+. Oh well it didn't stream for long, just 20, twenty minute episodes.
Aussie Harriet Dyer and hunky Kiwi, Alex Tarrant, with Tim Meadows, Molly Kearney, Tony Cavalero, Gigi Zumbado, and Jessica Camacho.
With Dyer on board, what could go wrong you ask?
Well a lot. It just wasn't that funny. Don't expect another Colin From Accounts. They ain't one F bomb in this network series. Or rude sex joke. Most jokes just fell a little or lot flat!
In the last ever episode, the consultants choose in two days which DMV will close, for good. Kinda like the shows fate!
Noa passes his driver’s test and they throw a party after work and Collette finally kisses Noa.
Colette realises there’s no chemistry with Noa after the bad kiss and Ceci helps her see how much she’s grown since starting to work at the DMV.
Barb finds out Ray Henderson is embezzling money from the pensions.
The consultants accidentally hit Barb with their car and decide to keep the branch open and shut down the North Hollywood branch.
Ray gets fired and the new head of the DMV is Beau Young. Played by the lovely, Randall Park. So we may have got more Park if season two would have gone ahead. Oh well. Not to worry.
Abbott Elementary for me, is still the network gold comedy standard. This just wasn't it. Still, I am looking forward to Dyer's, Colin From Accounts apparently also streaming on Binge, soon.
