‘The Boys’ Series Finale Review Scores Are Way Under ‘Stranger Things’

InnovationGaming‘The Boys’ Series Finale Review Scores Are Way Under ‘Stranger Things’ByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorMay 21, 2026, 09:17am EDTThe BoysAmazonThe Boys has aired its final episode, and even with spinoffs on the way, it’s unlikely anything will match the main series in terms of impact. But of course, the eternal question is whether a show can stick the landing in its finale, and so far, the general consensus among The Boys fans is that…it didn’t.That’s something we can at least track numerically, and right now The Boys is below the other biggest streaming show finale of the last year, Stranger Things, in terms of its finale IMDB scores among audiences.As it stands, The Boys finale has a 6.6/10 score on IMDB, the second-worst, just over the previous episodes' 6.3/10. The show never had a single episode under a 7 before this.Stranger Things, despite a lot of controversy around the finale, still managed to put up a 7.5/10 for its final outing. Not amazing, but The Boys being almost a full point lower is significant in the context of IMDB’s scoring. That too was one of the lowest-score episodes of Stranger Things, however, in third place. But The Boys fans were harsher, it seemed.The BoysAmazonMORE FOR YOUPersonally, I very much disagree with this. So much of the criticism I’ve seen of this episode makes little sense. One is that Homelander was supposed to be “scary,” but in his final moments, he was a sniveling loser. That’s the point! That’s how it should have been! And while I miss the Gen V cast too, no, Marie Moreau should not have been in that room.Butcher still being motivated to kill every supe in the end was not an illogical arc for his character, as he’s never been fully a good guy and has been willing to erase every supe on earth for the greater good this entire time, pretty much unwaverin...