The Boys Season 5 stacks a meta moment in Episode 7, as the series parodies Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe by introducing an in-universe AI writing tool that spits out a neo-Western propaganda script.
The machine balks at taking notes, a sly wink at Sheridan’s long-held stance of steering projects on his own terms. Once famous for shunning writers’ rooms, Sheridan has since loosened that stance, though he personally wrote most of the Yellowstone saga. The moment lands for viewers who know his reputation.
The Sheridan-inspired show inside the episode is described as a jumble of red-state imagery, an overstuffed collage that riffs on the franchise’s look. Sheridan has argued Yellowstone can be critical of corporate power and the mistreatment of Native communities, which complicates any simple conservative label. The Boys asks why they chose to lampoon his sprawling TV world at all.
Eric Kripke has been vocal about Sheridan in the past. He has said that his kids watching Landman helped inspire the joke, and he has argued that it is nearly impossible for a single creator to write every season. The spoof in Episode 7 plays on those tensions and is likely to spark chatter among fans.
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