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[Thisstorycontainsamajorspoilerfortheending[ThisstorycontainsamajorspoilerfortheendingofBoys Season 5, Episode 6, “Through the Sky Falls”; And major spoilers for episode seven, “The Frenchman, the Female, and the Man They Call Mother’s Milk.”]
The boys lost one of their own.
At the end of the seventh episode of the fifth and final season of the hit action-comedy series, Frenchie (Tomer Capone) sacrifices himself to protect his love Kimiko Miyashiro (Karen Fukuhara) from the wrath of Homelander (Anthony Starr). But Homelander focused his attention on Frenchy instead, who opened a hatch exposing himself to a lethal dose of radiation, telling the evil monster: “I bet you’ve never danced a day in your life.”
We asked creator Eric Kripke about the decision to kill off a character who has been with the show since the beginning.
“We knew we had to kill one of the boys,” Kripke said. “You can only have a chance at victory if it costs your heroes something very difficult. I always believe Lord of the Rings He was very good at it, and game of thrones He was very good at it. To gain narrative momentum, your heroes must pay a heavy price – because that’s how it’s done in the real world.
“So it was going through each character and deciding what would be the most heart-wrenching,” he continued. “I think we knew early on that it was going to be Frenchie. In many ways, Frenchie and Kimiko are the heart of the show. Despite the killers that they are, they’re very sweet emotionally. We knew this was going to have the most real devastation, and I think it had to happen. They wouldn’t have a chance of winning if Frenchie didn’t sacrifice himself.”
The death marks the latest in the show’s fifth and final season, which previously saw the deaths of A-Train (here’s Kripke’s thoughts on that) and Firecraker (here’s Kripke on that). This move sets the stage for the final episode of Boyswhich will drop next week. Kripke previously said he was concerned about fan reactions to the final episode.
“What makes me most… anxiety “Around the final season I really hope we land the plane,” he said. “It’s very difficult to do a finale. Fans will judge the show in retrospect based on how they feel about the finale. If we get tough, they’ll definitely say, ‘Well, this show wasn’t as good as we thought it was.’ And it’s like you’re trying to secure your legacy with these finales. It’s the first finale I’ve ever done, too, so it doesn’t seem like I have any experience with it. So I’m mostly just anxious and girding my loins.”
