The Boys Shocker: ‘Season 5 Will Be the Final Season,’ Eric Kripke Announces
This one comes as a total shocker: The Boys is ending with Season 5.
News of the Prime Video hit’s swan song comes direct from series creator Eric Kripke, who broke the news on X:
“The Boys Season 4 Premiere Week is a good time to announce: Season 5 will be the Final Season!” he shared Tuesday. “Always my plan, I just had to be cagey till I got the final OK from Vought. Thrilled to bring the story to a gory, epic, moist climax. Watch Season 4 in TWO DAYS, cause the end has begun!”
The stunning announcement comes less than 48 hours ahead of The Boys’ Season 4 premiere (watch trailer), and less than a month after the Amazon hit scored an early Season 5 renewal. The streamer has no statement at this time.
“The Boys could be the best job I’ll ever have,” Kripke said following the Season 5 pickup. “What other show allows me to write about politics, capitalism, family, and exploding genitalia, though not in that order.”
Kripke told Games Radar just last week that, given how he originally saw Supernatural ending after five seasons (and not 15), “I would be crazy to speculate on how many seasons any show should go. I’m not going to make that same mistake again. But, yes, I do have an ending in mind.”
Season 4 of The Boys (premiering with three episodes, followed by one installment weekly) finds the world “on the brink,” while “Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power,” reads the official synopsis. “Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boysy’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late.”
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I just read the other day that Kripke decided NOT to end it after season 5. Was that not true, or is this article outdated?
He put it on X today. So the article is very timely.
The world will continue. The show is just way too big for it not to. We already have Gen V, and I expect there will be a continuation of the ‘grown up’ world as well, not to mention the Spanish language spinoff. (I don’t speak Spanish, but Shogun has got me in the mood for reading subtitles :) )
As much as I love the show, I half expected this. Between Butcher’s current situation and bringing in a new seasonal villain so that they can avoid the final confrontation between Butcher and Homelander, it was clear that we were closer to the end than the beginning.
Now why did ya have to go and make me cry today.
Well better they have an endgame rather than it get one too many seasons. This will be missed.
Makes sense. He’d originally planned SUPERNATURAL to only run five seasons, and one could make an argument it would have ultimately had a stronger impact (if not the longevity) if it had. If a creator has a plan and gets to execute it on their terms, more power to them. I’ll be there with THE BOYS until the end.
All good things come to an end, better to go out on top than to dribble away into obscurity.
I can respect Kripke’s five year plan and sticking to it this time. Because regardless of the fact that there were several good to great episodes of Supernatural after season 5, they never matched the initial story line of the first five years.
Season 5 will be 2026 then ;)
There’s only so much money you can burn.
I think this is money that Amazon is happy to keep burning for many years to come, in the form of spinoffs. Ending the show is pretty clearly an internal creative decision, not a financial one.
Honestly really glad it’ll go out on his terms. Supernatural wasn’t great after season five.
I personally think the final scene of season 4 will be the flight footage leaked out to the world and season 5 will basically deal with ramifications of that and may even force boys and vought to team up to kill homelander.
There will probably be 2 or 3 spin-offs by then, anyway. I think ending the show in season 5 is fine, as long as they take care of Homelander once and for all.
I don’t think this is a shocking announcement. If it was up to Eric, Super Natural would have ended at Season 5. He seems like the type to not want his shows to drag on forever.
Not really a shocker. The show, like the comic, was never intended to be open-ended. There was always an ending in mind, and season 3 confirmed that ending isn’t too far off. Season 5 sounds about right.