The Boys cast, along with showrunner Eric Kripke, recently talked to Deadline and teased the fifth and final season of Prime Video's subversive superhero show. Naturally, we're in for yet another vulgar, bloody and unpredictable installment, all dialed up to 11 for this last sprint.
By the end of The Boys season 4, Homelander and Sister Sage managed to place loyalist Senator Calhoun as President, essentially placing Homelander himself at the driving seat of the U.S. government. Meanwhile, a suped-up Billy Butcher continues his fight to stop the tyrannical Homelander. At the end of the season, most of the Boys are captured, and Annie is on the run. Oh, and Soldier Boy is revealed to be alive. It's all set up to be one hell of a final season.
“I look at the last two seasons … like an accordion,” Antony Starr (Homelander) said. “One piece of the accordion is going out and then this is the compression going back in. There was a lot of setup in Season 4 for Season 5. Everything is gunning towards that climactic end. So it’s exciting at the moment because we’re filming all that.”
Kripke describes season 5 as a brutal affair, saying “there will probably be lots of deaths” and declaring that nothing is off the table. “There’s no guarantee of who’s gonna survive.”
Nathan Mitchell (Black Noir) believes fans should expect the unexpected: “There are some things that are coming in Season 5 that you’re not going to have in your bingo card.”
In addition, star Colby Minifie (Ashley Barrett) weighed in on the show going out on a high, rather than dragging on and outstaying its welcome. “Sometimes things go on too long and then it starts to run away from you and you don’t get to tell the story you want to tell,” she said. “When the announcement came out, Kripke said we get to end it on our terms, which I think is a really beautiful thing. The best stories have a beginning, middle, and end. Knowing the end is in five, we were able to tell the middle really well.”
The Boys series finale will be "extremely satisfying"
Minifie also talked to ScreenRant about the final season. She's gotten a sneak peak at the last-ever episode and sounds very high on it:
"I just read the finale last night. It's an extremely satisfying finale. That's what I will say. It's extremely satisfying. I was getting emotional reading it... the only way that those things work, as we've been talking about, is if they are grounded. If we believe that it's all grounded in reality and in something that the audience can connect to, it works? Oh yeah. I have a crazy boss and it makes me want to rip my hair out, you know?"
Ashley is nominally the CEO of Vought, but really Homelander is her boss, and bosses don't come crazier than that. And there is a running bit about Ashley tearing her hair out from stress, but she feels like she can't leave the job without being targeted. At the end of season 4, she took a risk and injected herself with Compound V, which could turn her into a supe...or mess her up beyond repair, we'll find out which soon enough.
The Boys season 5 isn't scheduled to premiere until 2026. In the meantime, the wider franchise will continue to expand through spinoff Gen V, which has a second season coming out later this year.
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