The Boys Star Colby Minifie Reflects On Season 4’s Review Bombing

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The Boys is currently in production on its fifth season, which will serve as the last for the superhero satire series. It remains to be seen how the final episodes will unfold, but it can be expected that they will be taking some inspiration from current events.

Colby Minifie, known in part for her role as Ashley Barrett in the hit show, recently spoke with Grae Drake of CBR at South by Southwest (SXSW) in an interview to promote her new horror film, The Surrender. She touched on The Boys, though she couldn’t state anything specific about what’s to come for her character in Season 5. Like previous seasons, however, Minifie suggested that current events in the real world have led to some script changes for the final season.

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Colby Minifie, who plays Ashley Barrett in The Boys, hints at how the action that will unfold in the show’s upcoming season.

“She is what everybody’s feeling on the inside,” Minifie said of Ashley. “What I can say [about Season 5] is that we’re having to rewrite to catch up to what’s happening.”

What I can say is that we’re having to rewrite to catch up to what’s happening.

Season 4 of The Boys saw some controversy stemming from its political storyline. Showrunner Eric Kripke has made no secret that the real-life U.S. presidential election heavily influenced some of the storylines in the show, and in some cases, it’s quite obvious. This may have played a big part in the show seemingly getting review bombed amid the criticism from some fans that the series should not satirize certain people and events from the real world. However, Minifie shared her thoughts on the situation, feeling that it

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“I think we got review bombed last year, because they were like, ‘We didn’t get it now! We didn’t see it. We don’t like it.’ But, you know, that’s what’s beautiful about that genre,” she said. “We’re able to talk about real things, that are actually really quite dark, and it’s palatable because it’s under these high stakes, things that separate it just enough from reality where we are able to look at our lives and be like, ‘Oh, s**t, that’s really what’s happening right now.'”

Colby Minifie Stars in The Surrender

The fifth and final season of The Boys doesn’t yet have a release date. Meanwhile, Minifie can currently be seen in the new horror film The Surrender, which debuted at SXSW. Directed by Julia Max, the film also stars Kate Burton (Grey’s Anatomy).

The synopsis for The Surrender readds, “A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead. As the bizarre and brutal resurrection spirals out of control, both women must confront their differences as they fight for their lives – and for each other.”

The Boys is streaming on Prime Video, and The Surrender is screening at SXSW.

Source: SXSW