‘The Boys’ Creator Responds to Fan Complaint About ‘Filler Episodes’

‘The Boys’ creator Eric Kripke recently fired back at fans who complained that there are too many “filler episodes” in the fifth and final season of Prime Video’s superhero satire.

“None of the things that happen in the last few episodes are going to matter if you don’t flesh out the characters further. I get a lot of online dissatisfaction, to put it politely,” Kripke said during an interview with TV guide. “And I think, ‘What do you expect? Do you expect a huge battle scene every episode?'”

He continued, “At no point while writing it did I think, ‘Oh yeah, we’re doing filler episodes. So who cares?’ We all thought at the time that we were really getting these important character details. We have about 14 characters, maybe 15. And I owe it to all of them – in the sense that television is the character business – I owe it to all of them to flesh them out and make them and their stories more human.

Kripke explained that he and his writers feel like they’ve delivered some “crazy, big things” in Season 5. These things aren’t necessarily shocking battle scenes, though. They can also be ‘giant character moves’.

“But apparently, just because it’s not a plot, you’re like, ‘Nothing happened!’ I’m like, ‘Nothing happened, what?'” Kripke said. “The craziest, biggest moves happened. It just wasn’t someone shooting someone else and going, pew, pew, pew. And if that’s what you want, you’re just watching the wrong show.”

The series finale of “The Boys” will not only premiere on Amazon’s Prime Video, but also be shown in theaters using 4DX technology.